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Sitting With Fear and Vulnerability: A Way to Change

Many of my clients and students have asked, “Why do I have to be present in meditation with my fear? Doesn’t sitting with that fear manifest the very thing I am not wanting in my life?”   It can be confusing with the popular sentiment of positive thinking and manifesting what our ego desires by thinking and being what we desire. For example, many of these teachings...
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Scientific Research Supports Meditative Practice

Lately, there is a great amount of good research supporting the practice of daily meditation. Studies indicate that meditation increases the brains ability to process new experiences and to use parts of the brain, the frontal lobes, to assess greater resources to deal with situations of today’s life styles. The following research indicated that people who meditated were able to change the brains processing abilities...
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Pause. Center. And Shift. Changing Reality

Pause. Center. Shift. These steps are important in bringing in resource to whatever you want to do, be it creative writing or painting, relationship work,  depth awareness or as you go about your day in a mindful state. The Heart Center is a key component of changing states of consciousness. This center from all chakra systems is the one that brings a person into a...
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How to cast a spell on your anxiety?

"Boggarts are shape shifters" says Hermione Granger in the 2004 much acclaimed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. "They take the shape of whatever a person fears the most. That's what makes them so terrifying." As Professor Remus Lupin teaches them the defense against Boggarts spell; "Riddikulus!" he adds "..what really finishes a boggart is laughter. You need to force it to assume a...