Practicing Human

The process of growth holds a paradox. In one sense, you're ok exactly as you are. In another sense, you may need to make some changes to your life. In this episode, we'll discuss how to hold these two realities in our path of personal and spiritual growth.

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In this episode, we discuss the typical trajectory of the creative process in six steps. Every person is a creative in their own unique way, whether it's in business, art, parenting, or being in relationship. And if you've ever struggled with the creative process, I think you'll enjoy what we discuss here.

Also, we discuss a new way that I'm sharing my teachings via text and audio message! To be part of the text community, you can text me anything, like "Hey!" to this number: 1-631-305-2874

In today's episode, we discuss when it may not be appropriate to meditate, and also what you might do before you meditate as a way to improve the experience.

Also, we discuss a new way that I'm sharing my teachings via text and audio message! To be part of the text community, you can text me anything, like "Hey!" to this number: 1-631-305-2874

How much will you need to change before you're worthy of love and acceptance? In this episode, we explore this question and the different motivations there can be for real change and growth.

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“I am not I.
I am this one
Walking beside me whom I do not see,
Whom at times I manage to visit,
And at other times I forget.
The one who remains silent when I talk,
The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,
The one who takes a walk when I am indoors,
The who will remain standing when I die.”
-Juana Ramon Jimenez

In this episode, we discuss why sometimes the most compassionate thing you can do for another person is to let them struggle.

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Do you ever feel like you're accruing mental tension? Do you ever feel like meditation takes too much energy? Do you ever feel like you just want to "veg out" but you know scrolling through your phone or watching tv won't help you restore? Then this episode is for you!

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The meditation teacher, Munindra-ji, used to say to his students "Sit and know that you're sitting, and the whole of dharma will reveal itself." Sometimes the practice is much more simple than we realize, and in this episode, we discuss why some of the deepest wisdom and insights come from just being where we are.

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In this episode, we explore why the things that most frustrate you about yourself (or frustrate others about you) may also be linked to what you and others most appreciate about you.

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"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things."

-Mary Oliver