Why Do We Need So Many Choices? — Abundance: The Downside Looking at a restaurant menu, I prefer to see only 5 choices. I mean really good choices, not 50 mediocre choices. Not to mention walking down the bread aisle at the grocery store where I want to explode because of the overwhelming and excessive selections: white (premium, round, artesano, organic…

Too Much Meaningless Chatter Talking does not need to take place for us to listen and communicate. Matter of fact it often gets in the way. We are constantly wrestling with our monkey mind, not to mention those gnarly conscious thoughts we carry with us everywhere. …

Through the Art of Eye Contact — I am a staunch believer that eyes are indeed a window to the soul. Windows into who we are. Eyes can say a great deal and do so without words. Because our eyes can be so revealing, is this why making eye contact with those we walk by on the…

The Pause: Delayed Responses Are Thoughtful Responses — I have never been a quick witted individual. My timing is always off and usually I think of something clever or a rebuttal long after the fact. A flawed trait that I loathed about myself. Although I still get angry when words escape me, I no longer think of my…

Limbo and Vertigo The past few months I have felt outside of myself, as if floating in the clouds. In limbo. Present enough to function in the day to day, but detached from more complicated matters. It began with some annoying imbalance issues and vertigo. My thoughts scattered and unstable. Brain fog had…

Letting Go of Worry Life can often feel like walking blindly into a cave Where there are no known facts of what is beyond our existing vision A seemingly dark and heavily anxious space Mystery is ever present Uneasiness abounds Each day I enter that metaphorical cave Taking a walk in mystery Sometimes there…

Triggered Teeth clench Shoulders tighten Brow furrow Mouth grimaces Stomach churns Heart hurts Spirit diminishes Optimism shadows Eyes dull Trust hesitates Ability to see the light dims Faith in humanity challenged. These are physical and emotional manifestations that have come up many times throughout my life. …

Physical Flexibility Being physically flexible as a youngster was not my forte. I remember elementary gym class where we were required to do stretching exercises and basic gymnastics. I hovered at the bottom of the totem pole. Touching my toes, only if I bent my knees. Front and side splits, forget about…

The Greater Good Versus Individualism — “The collective disease of humanity is that people are so engrossed in what happens, so hypnotized by the world of fluctuating forms, so absorbed in the content of their lives, they have forgotten the essence, that which is beyond content, beyond form.” — Eckhart Tolle It is as if we…