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Bring Intentionality to Sheltering in Place
Are you getting used to this new way of life? A life lived online, any real social life dwindled to a tiny trickle, and getting very up close and personal with your four walls, and those few who share these walls with you? Maybe it’s even starting to feel normal.
Crisis? What crisis, this is just how we live now!
Read more > Apr 30, 2020Resist the Draw to Inertia
Our lives have deeply changed, and regular routines and tasks diminished. In this is the opportunity to stand back and reflect on your life.
But do you notice how hard it is, week by week, to stay awake to this profound event that’s taking place?
The draw to inertia is strong, as all the outer demands and obligations are diminished.
Read more > Apr 23, 2020Why We Need Silence and Stillness - More Than Ever
A theme I’ve been tracking during the pandemic is the capacity to shift perspectives back and forth from that of the ego and to a bigger picture, a deeper reality of what is unfolding.
We need our ego to function in the world, but even at its best, the ego holds a limited world view. At its worst, it’s fearful, self-interested and convinced it must have what it wants, and that it is alone and has to do it all on its own. It holds a basic stance of “me against the world.”
Read more > Apr 09, 2020Be in the world, but not of the world.
I’ve always appreciated the phrase - “Be in the world, but not of the world.” These times seem made for this instruction. Let me share how I see it operating now.
If you’re like me, your weeks are a mixed bag of emotional states. Often, I feel quite good - happy, energized, and truly curious about it all. I’m most curious about the fact that everywhere in the world is going through this same crisis, this same experience, at the same time! What a creation!
Read more > Apr 01, 2020Know Your Management Strategies and Interrupt the Pattern
I’m wondering how you all are doing? Sequestered in our homes, so many of our daily routines have been interrupted. We’re not gathering with friends, going out to work, going to the cinema, or dropping in at our favourite coffee shop. The daily rhythm and pace of our lives have changed dramatically.
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