Posts Tagged ‘practice’

Movement is my medicine

December 15, 2007

While I appreciate the importance of cultivating stillness through meditation, body movement is my central spiritual practice.  As I listen and respond to music, I feel simultaneously free and at home.  I can wave my hips and arch my back spontaneously and yet inhabit myself.  Each movement is a chance to follow, receive, connect, and express.
What makes moving spiritual for [...]

Are you hungry for meaning?

November 19, 2007

The term “spiritual” often leads to religion and God.  But for me spirituality is simply a hunger for meaning.  It is hopefully something that we can lean on during hard times.  It offers insight into how we treat ourselves and others. Spirituality is a relationship with the unknown mystery of life; an energy that is [...]

Intuition…a whisper, an instinct, a sense

November 19, 2007

Intuition is a central navigating tool for all aspects of life.  It can help us filter and balance the truth of any incoming information.  As it grows, it can become a compass to guide daily life interactions or decisions.  It helps us face any unknown and teaches how to proceed.  Intuition does not need to [...]

A messenger from the unknown

November 19, 2007

A big messenger in forming a relationship with the unknown is synchronicity.  Synchronicity is a series of meaningful coincidences.  When we allow ourselves to not know and then ask for help, things happen.  Help appears.  The help can come in many forms including a wise friend, a book, a song on the radio, a mystical [...]

Making friends with the unknown

November 19, 2007

While there is no way to control the unknown mystery of life, I believe that if we choose to welcome the unknown, we can learn how to navigate it.  The unknown can become our teacher and if we are willing to face our fears, the unknown will not leave us stranded and alone.  It will [...]