My Heartsongs

A couple of months ago, I was one of 21 adults arrested at the NM State Capitol in support of Youth United For Climate Crisis Action. Catastrophe can be averted through community, companies and countries getting their collective act together, and realizing that the time to act is yesterday.

We each have some daily dependence & intimate relationship with our devices, and the emerging deep learning algorithms that continue to transform every aspect of human endeavor and experience. Are we really paying attention about how to align Artificial Intelligence ethically and legally with our most cherished values?  

New day new year new decade new chapter in the book of our life. New Year’s resolutions might be a good example of our lack of individual emotional smarts, since half of them are dropped within a month. Here are five emotional barriers that may get in our way in terms of following through on what we say we are about this new year.

Holidays – with their expectations of joyous celebration and social niceties – are anything but for millions of people who find little comfort in old family wounds, and re-igniting of addictive or personal less-than-skillful habits and triggers. Here are my “three chords and the truth” to get through.

How to find a space of appreciation no matter what is unfolding? Solstice is always a time, as we begin anew to enter the light, to focus on what is good and true. I am blessed to be alive…

From ancient Egyptians to Australian aborigines, sound healing is a primordial practice that uses musical instruments that vibrate at particular frequencies, or the voice chanting mantras, to cultivate immersive meditation or relaxation. This week I had the privilege of listening to the Drepung Loseling monks offer their sacred multiphonic chanting for individual, social, environmental and global healing.

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The reality is always that ENERGY FLOWS WHERE ATTENTION GOES.  Whenever we bring ourselves back to right here right now, our bodies respond with a burst of life force. The paradox is that during duress trying to escape the present is always less effective – and often more destructive – than fully entering into our pain and discomfort, consciously softening it and working with it rather than against it.

Nothing like a sudden encounter with the flu – as is happening this week – to kindle the inner flames of thankfulness. This week we focus on living in gratitude, one of the four internal power threads of conscious aging, empowering perspectives worth cultivating.

Conscious aging asks us to do our best to keep both our bodies and our minds flexible, willing to discover a different inventive way, to navigate new challenges before us. When we can muster the mindset of adjust and adapt, struggle frustration and efforting go out the window, replaced by calm and resourceful acceptance.