Self-Empowered You

<p>While healing is very important to us, is just healing enough? Is there more to a full life than healing? I suggest that we go on beyond healing to full-fledged thriving, thriving in ways that we can barely conceive...

<p>There are a great many philosophies that organize our lives around why we are here. Most of them are very disempowered. Suppose we choose to live lives of freedom and choice, seeing what we want to do and exploring...

<p>When we decide to be powerful and accept the intensity and responsibility of being powerful it can be an overwhelming experience. In this podcast we look at our internal processes of taking up our power. This is a...

<p>We all have to decide for ourselves what is real and what is not. That choice may be to agree with some authority, but those of us who choose to think for ourselves must confront the challenge of saying what we're...

<p>Very often our mere loving focus goes a long way toward helping us heal. Today we want to send loving attention to our eyes and the other places in our faces that need our help. This is a meditation best done with...

<p>Our personal rules become the blueprint for our lives. Some of the rules may no longer serve us, or maybe they never did. But if we don't examine them and change the ones that need to be changed, we will go on...

<p>You probably find that you don't like the feeling of being disoriented. That's quite understandable. But disorientation has its uses. Disorientation forces us to reevaluate where we are and what we think is going on...

<p>Shame is the most crippling emotion we can carry and we don't have to. It's a choice and we don't have to make that choice. In this podcast we look at some of the ways we can counteract feelings of shame. Shame...

<p>Since everything we choose is based on our desire to feel better than we currently do, doesn't it make sense to spend some time looking at what we actually want to feel? Don't we want to choose the very best feelings...

<p>Not only is overall pleasure the motivation for every choice we make, it is the yardstick by which we judge which action we take. In a miraculous calculation, we quickly imagine what our expected pleasure will likely...

<p>We need trust. It allows us to move about in the world and to rely on our assumptions and expectations. But trust comes from, and only from, our choice to trust. And it order to do it wisely, we need to pay attention...

<p>It's natural to be passionate about the spiritual path and to be excited to explore new worlds within. But there is great wisdom in taking the time to let the process of growth proceed in their own time. We learn...

<p>There are many wonderful techniques for manifesting our desires and they rely on envisioning our desire, energizing it, and allowing it to come to us. But nothing seems to work better that simply loving our desire...

<p>Sure, remembering things is important. But so is forgetting things. With so much emphasis on remembering most of us have neglected to fine art of forgetting. There is so much to forget that we usually overlook how...

<p>Nobody likes to be criticized. We generally feel bad or worse when we're criticized. But the fear of criticism is an even deeper level of feeling bad. But we don't ever have to fear it again once we know how to deal...