“Your inner knowing is your only true compass.” ~ Joy Page

In this healing reflection, I offer three ways to soften your personality structure in order to better hear your intuition. First, ask a question. And then, prepare to hear an intuitive answer.

Opening to Intuition

Soften: Relax, soften and c...

"I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences."

~ Josefa Iloilo

Have you heard of the concept of differentiation? Healthy differentiation, which is the cornerstone of Bowen Family System Therapy, means that you have the ability to maintain a solid sense of self in the mi...

"Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis."

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Niceness is Not Love
One way to contact the sacred is to connect to the love in your heart. Loving-kindness is a Buddhist spiritual tradi...

“A calm body creates a calm mind” ~ Gayatri Devi

Did you know that it is impossible to have an anxiety attack in a relaxed body? Anxiety arises when your nervous system is on high alert, and your amygdala is sending danger signals to your body.

Feeling safe requires a relaxed body. Past trauma store...

"Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience."

~ Paul Mellon

When you clear away your socially conditioned habits from the past, the sensual nature of your body can emerge. As you let go of what has been conditioned in y...

“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and it will be lost.”   ~ Martha Graham

Psychotherapist Susan Bello, creator of "The I.am.I Spontaneous Painting Process," sees symbols as psychic energy that exists ...

"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."~ Swami Sivananda

Self-realization entails going beyond ourselves towards "something more" than what we have been socially conditioned to be.

10 Steps to Self-Realization

1. Ego Formation: Coming ...

"Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude."

Ken Keyes Jr.

It is interesting to consider different "paths" to heightening consciousness. I think one good model is from spiritual teacher Ken Keys, who called the Twelve Pathways. He recommended that eac...

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." 

~ Marianne Williamson

Our bodies hold unresolved emotional issues until we process and release them. Depression is caused by an accumulation of negative thoughts, unprocessed adverse experiences, old, unh...