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Bob’s Ride, Montana Style

Bob’s Ride by Scout Wilkins During the free-wheeling years between leaving my own parents and becoming one myself, I worked for awhile at Sleeping Child Hot Springs in the Sapphire Mountains of southwestern Montana. Bob was a friend of mine who used to come up to the springs every day, to work out in the …

Why do we Resist Offering Appreciation?

Last week I wrote you a note about appreciation, and I got a tremendous amount of grateful feedback. Thank you to everyone who wrote to me. I promised to follow up with some thoughts about why we don’t offer more appreciation. Why do we resist giving pure appreciation without some sort of suggestion for correction …

Being Generous with Appreciation.

We’re about to enter the time of year when people start going a little crazy, going into debt in order to appear more generous with friends and loved ones at the holidays. Yes, it’s craziness. But a very prevalent craziness. I’ve been thinking a lot about generosity lately, because I hear from people who are …

What is going on here?

I spent much of my early life feeling deeply engaged and alive. As I grew older I became more and more closed down. I felt frustrated, depressed and unable to figure out what was wrong. There was nothing in outside circumstances that would point to anything other than a great life. But I kept swirling …

The Shift to Consciousness

Can you feel the shift?   There is something profound happening right now in the world. I can only describe it as a deepening into the idea and feeling of coming home. We are like salmon coming home, upstream into the rivers of our origins. And we are deeply supported by life as we do. …

What does it take to quit fighting yourself?

Are you gnashing your teeth, trying to change or alter something? Does it feel like you’re fighting yourself – and losing? You probably are. Consider this: The Equation of Change A person will not change or alter themselves as long as their perceived level of dissatisfaction is less than their perception of how much energy …

Note to my Younger Self

To My Younger self: My good friend Debbie LaChusa has a birthday today, and as part of her birthday musings, she posed the question: What would I like to go back and tell my younger self? It felt so good to answer this question I decided to post my reply here, and then to ask …

How can I get better at receiving?

Giving and receiving   Don’t you feel great, when you have the opportunity to help someone, and they graciously accept and receive your help? Contrast that to how it feels when you offer help and they turn you down, reject your offer, or take your help begrudgingly.   The whole giving/receiving cycle is pretty messed up, because …

What is True Personal Freedom?

July 4, 2013 American Independence Day     What is True Personal freedom?     True Personal Freedom is being willing and able to show up completely as yourself, who you really are.   Which to me means: Being free of any thoughts that would have me deny who I really am, at a soul level. …

Are you tired of worrying about what others think?

My Dance with Competence   I am a competent person. And I would have said that I feel pretty much at peace with my basic competence.   Except for one thing: A few years back, when I was beginning to notice things with more awareness, I noticed a pattern that wasn’t serving me.   I …