Reflections

Optimal Living Resources

Staying Centered we’re Free to Explore Life’s Extremes Sep 29, 2015

Seeking our identity through the highs and lows of life is a precarious roller coaster ride of illusion.

If we’re experiencing successes, then we believe that we are worthy.  If we are experiencing failures or if we’re showing up...

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Within Stillness we Discover our own Vastness Sep 29, 2015

Often those who begin a meditation practice have the experience within the stillness that “this is boring and there’s nothing to do here.”

But with patience and a new perspective we can find a vastness within ourselves that...

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The Gift of Losing Our Way Sep 18, 2015
I love it when a classic country western song speaks simple sage wisdom.
 
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks once intoned the poignant question,
 
“Baby, how can I miss you if you won’t go away?” 
 
The...
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Why Cultivate A Relationship With Your Authentic Nature? Aug 17, 2015

Where we spend time becomes familiar.  Yes?

When we spend time in our practices of presence and awareness,
then our core authentic nature becomes more familiar and accessible to us
than our reactive and conditioned state of being.

By...

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Why Do We Suffer? Aug 15, 2015

Attaching our sense of joy, happiness, love, contentment, abundance, peace, etc..
to external conditions that are impermanent and always changing is an act of conditioned insanity.

Not that we don’t also find joy and enrichment
from the...

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We Are Perfect Apr 30, 2015

We Are Perfect.
Anything else is a lie told by the fragile ego.

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The Power of Presence – Tuning Our Instrument Apr 29, 2015

A short video presentation about
consciously choosing how we want to show up in the world.

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Strengths Over Applied Jul 10, 2014

Our greatest weaknesses are typically our greatest strengths
either over used or mis-applied.

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The Art of Receiving Jun 27, 2014

Learning how to be grateful and appreciative for what we receive, even when it isn’t what we thought we wanted, leads to living with greater ease, success and joy.

As well, we learn that it is a tremendous gift to others when we allow...

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The Hero’s Journey – Video May 14, 2014

Joseph Campbell’s model, The Hero’s Journey, reminds us that the idea is not to create heaven on earth.

That is where we came from (figuratively) and that to which we will return. The idea is to live a very full, rich and perfectly...

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