 By Jim Selman | Bio
New Year’s is a time to reflect and remember.
I was reviewing some old ‘resolutions’ and came upon one that has
served me well over the years. It may be one of the most useful and
relevant bits of wisdom I have to share with people.
“The important thing is to choose what we have and
give up our attachment to what we don’t have—so we can have the space
to create our dreams and manifest our intention.” [ Read More]
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 By Kevin Brown | Bio
In my previous post, I discussed showing
up in conversation without pre-formed conclusions about the person we
are entering into conversation with. While the post was directed to
conversations with those we provide care for, the article applies to
any conversation that we find ourselves in. Whether at home, work, in
not-for-profit organizations, at Church, or just in casual conversation
with friends; how we show up in conversation has a profound impact on
our relationships.[ Read More]
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By Kevin Brown | Bio
There was a time when ‘showing up’ for a
meeting, an appointment, or a family event left me thinking about being
on time, what I must remember to bring, or what I should wear.
Increasingly though, I have been thinking about how I ‘show up’ in
conversation with the people I interact with. I am talking about
conversations with my work colleagues, fellow churchgoers, friends,
extended family members, my son, my wife, and even with my God. When I
began to consider how I show up for others in conversation, I realized
just how little attention I was giving to being responsible in my
conversations.[ Read More]
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I notice lately that a lot of my conversations with older friends
revolve around the question “What do you want to do?” This is usually
followed by a smorgasbord of choices ranging from recreation to
entertainment to ‘just hanging out’. It sounds a lot like the
conversations my children used to have on a Saturday afternoon. It
seems to me that this kind of conversation is about filling time,
rather than intentional or purposeful choices. It is about picking from
available options, rather than creating the game we might create if
there were no constraints. When we were very young, we seemed to be
much more adept at creating games out of thin air with a lot less
effort.[ Read More]
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
The official
arrival of fall always surprises me. It’s never the change in weather
so much as the passage of time that draws me up short—what happened to
the last few months of my life? This year I feel as if I’ve been lost
in a time warp while the rest of the world runs ahead at its crazy
pace…and as if I’m only just beginning to rejoin the rest of the human
race. And no, I didn’t go on an extended vacation or take a leave of
absence. All I did was connect to my purpose…and then my body seemed to
fall apart. Strange, but I’ve come to realize a distinction between
purpose and meaning through being ‘sidelined’ with health issues.[ Read More]
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 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Read the first post and second post in this series.
During the second year in my transition from a static world to an
energetic-based point of view, I took a training program with a Mexican
teacher, Victor Sanchez, who had studied and lived with the Toltec
Indians in northern Mexico. Victor had developed a coherent conceptual
framework that was very much based on energy. Lorin Smith didn’t have a
lot of explanation for what he did. He just did it, and I saw that he
was working with fundamental energies. Victor Sanchez, in contrast, was
a scholar as well as a teacher. He said that the Toltec Indians
believed that the world does not consist of objects. Rather, they
believe the world consists of interacting energy fields and that the
systems with greatest available energy will prevail. [ Read More]
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Hot on the heels of neuroplasticity is the paperback release this week of Lynne McTaggart's The Intention Experiment, an investigation into intentions manifesting into reality. The Intention Experiment's website
is an open invitation to get involved in a worldwide experiment into
the 'science of intention'. Working with leading physicists and
psychologists from the University of Arizona, Princeton University, the
International Institute of Biophysics, Cambridge University and the
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Ms. McTaggart is enrolling thousands of
volunteers from countries around the world to participate in web-based
experiments focused on particular topic areas. To participate, you must
purchase a book (which contains a password for accessing the experiment
on the site). On clicking through the site to find information about
upcoming workshops in my country (there are none), I stumbled across a ' community intention of the week' and a listing of the results gathered from their first experiments. Interestingly, the biggest challenges to the experiment itself so far have been technological in nature.[ Read More]
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It’s the last day of the year. It is the time for resolutions to stop
smoking, lose weight, be a better person and generally confront all the
things we didn’t do last year. I was going through some papers this
week and stumbled upon a few of my old ‘lists’ of New Year’s intentions
from about 20 years ago. I am a bit embarrassed to say that my list
today looks very similar to my list then—more exercise, better diet,
more time for reflection and creativity, write my book, and relax. It’s
not that I have done nothing in these areas for the past couple of
decades, but overall I never seem to be satisfied and I often ‘lose’
whatever ground I seem to gain. To be sure, there are items on the
‘old’ list that have been handled: I don’t smoke and am extremely happy
with my life and myself. Nonetheless, I still make my annual ‘list’ and
if the past is any indicator, I will probably have the same list next
year.[ Read More]
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By Marilyn Hay
What if our thoughts had
power—the power to bring us what we think about? Sounds like magic …
or, perhaps, craziness. But what if it’s true? I’ve heard
about intentional thinking and the Law of Attraction from a variety of
different sources over the past year, only recently stopping long
enough to pay attention and learn what they are about. Simply put,
everything in the universe is energy and all energy is connected—we are
all part of the whole. Our thoughts, like everything else, have energy
that resonates with the universe and the universe ‘sends’ us more of
what we’ve been thinking about. So, if we’re thinking about what makes
us grateful, we get more of whatever that is. If we think about a thing
or circumstance we don’t want, we get more of it.[ Read More]
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