Category: Defining the Self
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Mission Statement
Sometime in my twenties, I wrote a mission statement. I found it. Surprisingly I still like it and do my best to adhere to it, though I’d strike commandment #6, mainly due to the word “ought.” That one’s right up there with “should.” Follow the desires that align to your heart/mind/body/soul complex and you need…
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The Herd Mentality
Lately, I’ve been mulling over the “herd mentality.” In marketing, the herd mentality is an extremely useful tool to use and understand. Essentially, we buy things, or buy into ideas, when our herd does, or the herd we wish to align ourselves with do. The opposite also has its power – when we do not…
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Way-finding
“It’s called way-finding, princess. It’s not just sails and knots. It’s seeing where you’re going in your mind, and knowing where you are by knowing where you’ve been.” – Māui, Moana “…knowing where you are by knowing where you’ve been.” A beautiful line that caught my attention while watching Moana (Yes! Finally I have…
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Liminal Space
Airports, stairwells, escalators, elevators, doorways – the places that are meant for coming or going, not being. Liminal space is also a frame of mind in which we are in a period of transitioning. It is that time when our entire life has been turned upside down by some integral loss that ends up…
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The Foundation of Hate?
Revelation: having hatred for others implies hatred for the self. Something to ponder… And, as a point of reference – hatred can include the following: 1. Over-generalization (ex. one bad encounter w/ someone means their entire race or culture is bad) 2. Mind-reading (assuming you know what someone else is thinking) 3. Emotional reading (assuming…
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The Dark Night of the Soul
Let’s just get this out of the way, the ascension process…. it can really suck. Two weeks ago I spent several days in complete despondency. I hid myself away, turned off my phone, and laid around watching movies but not connecting to anything I saw. Now, anyone who knows me knows this may be fairly…
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Life Makeover
I bet there’s been times in your life you just wanted to yell out to the universe “re-do!” And technically, we do get our “re-do” moments throughout life. We all have those scenarios and characters that appear to be on repeat in our life: that guy that we give our love to but treats us…
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The Bullshit We Tell
” …a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method) Though I’ve heard of Socrates, it wasn’t until about 15 years ago that I began hearing about the Socratic Method. Socrates was an Athenian philosopher from around 400…
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Shattering the Illusions of Self
We spent our childhoods figuring out who we are. We’ve padded our adult life with things, jobs, situations that reflect that which we think we are. And, if you’ve read the last three posts, you’ve focused even more on the Self and the many possibilities of all it is or can be. But this is not…
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Breaking Out of Your Box
I’m going to tell you a little story about me. About eight year ago, I fell in love. Seven years ago, we parted ways and I ended up with a man whom I really didn’t love but moved in with anyway, knowing I was settling. As could be foreseen, it ended fairly quickly. When…
Unearthing the Sacred 