Groundhog Tapestry

May 14, 2020

As I pulled up the blinds, I thought to myself: It’s Groundhog Day. Here we go again.

And then the most amazing thing happened: I saw myself as a small thread in this tapestry of our planet — and my own little personal experience as one tiny fleck of color and texture. And I realized that every single person will wake up and face today with some feeling and have their own experience of it. And either I could continue to see myself as the star of my own movie — or I could embrace my place in the whole as the whole reason I am — any of us — are here.

And when I did that, everything eased.

Clear

May 12, 2020

If we lose sight of our inherent wholeness we might begin to believe that we are not whole. That something is wrong that needs to be fixed, when all that really needs to happen is some good deep spiritual cleaning.

This heart-centered practice of wholeness is about re-learning how to begin and end in wholeness. Not how to fix something that has gotten irrevocably broken. This is true of ourselves, of one another, and of our world. This means — and this is the tough part — if we don’t want to see ourselves as broken, we can’t see anyone else as broken. If we want to see a vibrant and hopeful future for our economy and our planet, we have to start from its place of inherent wholeness.

Mother Earth shows us this every single day — as skies get bluer and bluer, rivers run cleaner, birds, fish and animals return to places they had long abandoned. A little cleaning, Mother Earth reminds us, goes a long way. She is showing us the way.

Choose

May 11, 2020

We’re all trying to understand what’s happening any way we can. But these questions, this issues, these times can seem so big that they sometimes scare us. And that’s when we turn on the TV and hope that things will go back to the normal we see on the screen.

They can’t.

We’re way past that point in the race.

Here’s the bottom line:

Unless each of us find a way to live more holistically, none of us will.

Every single choice each of us makes has a larger consequence.

Period. The end.

Lean

May 10, 2020

Here in the US, today is Mothers Day.

Wherever she may be, my mother is undoubtedly chuckling . . .because today’s blog is about planning.

Enjoy the Revealing

May 5, 2020

I have asked for this. And so, if I have asked for it, and it is being given to me, why not be glad, give thanks, rejoice — as my lifelong morning prayer says?

It would be like saying you love going to horror movies and then hating every minute of it and wishing you weren’t there.

It would be like telling everyone you love roller coasters and then wishing you were home on the sofa.

It would be like announcing you love to travel the world and then being okay with being homesick the entire time.

I asked for this. I asked to see what needs to be seen. So if that’s happening, why aren’t I enjoying what I asked for?

Well, here’s why: Fear wants to keep us right where it has us.

Wholly Holy Whole

May 3, 2020

Did you know that the words holy, whole, holistic, heal, and health all come from the same root word? It's all interconnected. It's all one. Just as we are all interconnected and we are all one. Now we each just have to start living our heart-centered practice of wholeness.

Dear,

May 2, 2020

During this month, I will create this new heart-centered practice of wholeness by sharing the evolution of its process.

Heart-centered practice is a journey not a destination. I hope that by sharing in this way, you’ll see that each of us can create our own heart-centered practices that get us out of our fear-based problem-solving heads and into our Love-led hearts

Each day I will dive deep into an incident or feeling or experience that made me realize that a part of my life is not Whole. And I will work through the process of getting out of my divisive head and into my holistic heart.

The Heart-Centered Practice of Wholeness

May 1, 2020

May’s heart-centered practice of presence is Wholeness.

One of my core heart-centered practices (it’s in my new book, Living Love: 12 Heart-Centered Practices to Transform Your Life, is witnessing. This is the process of learning to pay more attention to your thought patterns and all the actions and reactions they produce — without judging yourself or others.

Lately I’ve been witnessing certain things:

I sometimes have a much bigger physical or emotional reaction to something or someone than my mind is telling me I need to have.
I have a habit of avoiding certain kinds of interactions, situations, tasks, practices — and those avoidance patterns are often similar.
Fear can be both extreme and subtle — but it’s the subtle forms of fear’s suggestions that take the deepest root. . .and are the hardest to spot.
A lifetime of justifying certain behaviors and beliefs does NOT make those behaviors and beliefs okay for me or anyone.
The things we sweep under our mental or spiritual rugs need to get cleaned out — or pretty soon we start tripping on what’s under that rug every single day . . .and if we don’t pay attention pretty soon it takes over the whole house.
We all live as if the choices we make have no consequences, when in fact every single choice we make has consequences. Every single choice.