The Importance of Play and Creativity in Our Lives

I want to touch more deeply on the topic of PLAY. Ideally PLAY and creativity should be connected, should be tapping the same place.  The difficulty we have in western/ modern society, is that we don’t really  play.  We are very disconnected from that place, of playing.  There is an excellent book, Playing by Heart…

Suffering!

Suffering has been with humanity since humanity began I would suppose, and there has always been someone to help guide us humans through this nightmare, if we would only listen, observe and learn how to do it. Gautam Siddhartha, better known as The Buddha, devoted his life to helping people transcend their suffering 2,500 years…

Fall in Love With Your Business

Falling in love is the secret to survive and thrive. Falling in love with your product, passions, purpose and the people you serve and work with is the secret to surviving in the tough world business and challenging climate. Business is often seen as cruel, competitive and cut-throat – and it can be – but…

3 Essential Steps to Success, Health & Happiness – Step 3 Planning

There’s a well-known saying “Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance”. There’s a more colorful version  – “Proper Planning Prevents P**s Poor Performance”! Whichever version you prefer, it’s absolutely true! However, I would go a step further and say planning without execution of your plan will NOT prevent poor performance. A beautifully thought out plan that gathers…

Meditation is Important

Rather than to fight or to struggle with the illusion or the maya, it is very important to pull back the attention to another space. This is where meditation is so important. This is where being a little bit detached to what is happening around you, and being detached from the thought process, allows for…

Mindful Education: Teaching Kids To Be Real Leaders Who Support and Encourage Their Peers

I just saw this interesting image and caption.  It notes that real women lift other women up, instead of tearing them down.  I couldn’t agree more!  Especially in today’s catty cut-throat petty gossipy and bickering culture!  What IF women were raised with a genetic or social mandate, to improve the lives of their peers and…

The New Paradigm

According to Western Astrology, we have just emerged from the Piscean age, which was a 2,000 year period, where the general characteristics were; extreme competition, greed, avarice, violence, ego-mania, control, aggression, and war. Of course, there were also positive traits, but the lessons that were to be learned by humanity centered around the negative traits….

My Unchanging Self

I am sitting in the sun on a roof terrace in Morocco high up in the Atlas Mountains… My shoulders are aching and my bottom muscles are stiff… The back of my nose is scratchy and my eyes feel quite heavy… This is the result of living and training in a land where the air…