Live for the Present
In Writer and Director Megan Park’s My Old Ass, 39-year-old Elliott, played by Aubrey Plaza, returns to the past, our present, to advise her 18-year-old Young Ass, played by Maisy Stella, so that she...
View ArticleWhy It’s Important to Be Fully Present in Your Relationships
Podcast: Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS PHIL: It’s been a week where we seem to have had frequent calls for help. Maude described herself as feeling interrupted for a second when asked, and...
View ArticleWhy It’s Important to be Present in Your Relationships
Podcast: Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS MAUDE: Phil and I were recently reading a personal piece by a favorite author of ours and were struck by the emphasis on the negative events in her...
View ArticleThe Five Fundamentals of Peaceful Relationships
Podcast: Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS For the last few weeks, we have been writing about subtle aspects of peaceful relationships. It is now time to describe the five principles for...
View ArticleThe Power of Authentic Masculinity – David Chambers
Authenticity is a source of incredible power that is often overlooked. While it can take some time to know and free yourself, it’s worth the time and energy, because it exponentially supports you...
View ArticleLessons Remembered from My Buffalo Man
Have you ever watched buffalo during a storm? It’s an amazing thing to watch and learn from in truth. Today I want to tell you a little tale that my life partner constantly reminds me of, because he...
View ArticleHow to Stay Young While Growing Older – Randy Spelling
Getting older doesn’t mean you have to lose power, meaning, or fulfillment. As the seasons of life change, you can continually discover and create yourself anew. Today’s guest, Randy Spelling, guides...
View ArticleThe Many Benefits of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership – Yosi Amram, PhD
Today’s guest has done the research to show that bringing humanity and spirituality into business is actually incredibly beneficial for a company’s bottom line and overall success. Show notes People...
View ArticleFive Ways to Come Back to the Present Moment — FAST!
Have you ever gotten to the end of your day and realized that large chunks were kind of just missing? I’m not referring to some kind of sudden memory loss, but rather, the much more common phenomenon...
View ArticleWhether To Wither or Weather the Storm
Choosing being Presence At times I feel I am withered, without a supple power to reach and grow. At those times I may realize I am being a choice to wither, and become instead the ability to choose...
View ArticleWhere’s God?
God seems hidden to us because we define presence in a physical way. And physical presence is limited. For me to be present to my daughter who calls for me from across the house (again), I have to...
View ArticleThe Curse of Availability
Take a quick second and look back on the past week or so of your life. Have you received a text that was truly urgent? An email that honestly needed to be be responded to right away? A voicemail that...
View ArticleStateless: A Way to Reduce Overwhelm and Help Us Focus and Be More Present
Every day, we are dealing with a thousand things, overrun by emails and messages and tasks and chores … and it can become overwhelming and shut us down. I’d like to talk about an idea I’ve been...
View ArticleHow To Make Today Your Best Day: One Simple Thing That I Do Every Morning
I remember standing in the heart of the Piazza dell’Anfiteatro in Lucca, Italy. For those who are not familiar with Lucca, it is a walled historic city surrounded by greenery — the quintessential...
View ArticleThe ‘It’ Factor Starts With Valuing Yourself
One time my friend introduced me to someone named JD. Before meeting him, my friend warned me to restrain from making senseless jokes around this apparently cool dude. I didn’t understand the hype,...
View ArticleAccepting the Now
I try to spend a period of time each day ‘Accepting The Now’. That sounds easy right, no problem. Accept the now, wait, how do I do that? What even is ‘the now’? Well, it changes. * * * What I mean...
View ArticleHolding Presence
One of the most intriguing aspects of this journey of teaching is the learning that keeps coming. During a recent Water Flow Massage experience I had a beautiful opportunity to do this. I don’t often...
View ArticleSubtlety of the Present
Towards fulfilment. Not the magic switch that goes ‘poof’ like the genie in Aladdin — who doesn’t want one of those switches, but unfortunately they don’t exist. it’s an endless reworking of self...
View ArticleRelationship Alive! Grounded Spirituality for Deeper Presence and Connection
— Is it possible to be a spiritual being in a human body? Transcendent, yet grounded? And why is that so many “spiritual leaders” tell us to leave our feelings behind? How is it possible to be truly...
View ArticleI Don’t Live Here. I Live In My Head
— I pulled into a parking spot today, pulled the key out of the ignition and literally put my hand in front of my face. Nothing really was wrong, I was fine. But I was shaking. Which was a little...
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