The Energy of our Being
Living with this understanding changes what matters to us.Read more
The Care-giving Question
How much are we willing to sacrifice to care for a loved one?Read more
Courses of Thought
It is when we are struggling that our wisdom is the most valuable.Read more
Relationship Disappointments
Perpetual disappointment is a key feature of too many relationships.Read more
A Suicidal Perspective
Suicidal people lose track of their future. #suicideRead more
Conscious Participation
In the simplest terms, what to do each day is quite clear. #mindfulness #YEGRead more
Emotional Degrees
Something interesting happens when we translate our relationships into words. #itsoktonotbeokRead more
The Price of Friendship
This math dictates whether people grow closer together or further apart.Read more
Asperger’s and Mindfulness
Living with Asperger’s is much easier once we know how. @CBCRadioActiveRead more
Ways of Being
For some it’s tolerance with resentment. For others it’s anger with forgiveness. #toleranceRead more
Freedom of Thought
Many social and political issues have evolved into examples of Mass Hysteria. #politics #socialjustice #cooperationRead more
The Spiritual Gym
These steps build a better life. If we do them often enough we can even come to enjoy them. #apology #sorry #YEGRead more
Having an Attack
We have to see ourselves as ‘having’ those attacks. To ‘have’ to is allow. #COVID #itsoktonotbeokRead more
Compassionate Communications
Without this skill we cannot repair division. #peace #communicationRead more
Gratitude Segments
My CBC Radio Active column on discovering more sources of gratitude in our lives.Read more
Knowing Our Limits
It’s our act of creation that wraps our limiting thoughts around us. #YEG #itsoktonotbeokRead more
The Cost of Living
Approach in a healthy way, the challenges of caregiving can offer big rewards as well. #caregiverRead more
Kangaroo Planet
If we’re trying to seek the best in others, it’s wisest to appeal to the best in them.Read more
The Human Library
Being heard reminds us that we maintain our value even when we’re down. #YEG #mentalhealth #mindfulnessRead more
Psycho-Spiritual Resistance
Any life can be successful as long as it finds that particular life’s unique rewards.Read more
Little Bits of Grace
It is only through our conscious attention that these opportunities turn into our reality. #itsoktonotbeok #YEGRead more
Motorcycle Mindfulness
Mindfulness can turn science into a practice that can make our roads safer. #motorcycles #CBCRead more
Weave a Brighter Future
Weave the present carefully. It soon becomes our past, filled with either regret or appreciation. #mindfulness #YEGRead more
Emotional Absorption
That’s someone who has been over-thinking. She was having a biochemical rush. What she needed was absorption. #YEG #itsoktonotbeokRead more
Paying Attention
This is us slowing down the process of what our minds normally do. #mindfulness #YEGRead more
Building The Temple of Silence
Visit your temple at least five times per day. Start today. It only takes a month and a half to build one.Read more
The Gratitude Net
If we are serious about any goal we are best to approach it intentionally.Read more
Crazy Love
What we really need to be able to do is see the best in each other despite all else. #love #romance #datingRead more
The Nature of Expansion
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. One makes us more resilient, the other makes us wiser. #itsoktonotbeokRead more
Suffering With Meaning
If we avoid suffering we avoid embarrassment and that only hinders growth. #YEGRead more
Brain Tricks for Motorcycle Safety
A brain mistake can make a rider invisible. But mindfulness can make them visible again. #motorcycles #roadsafetyRead more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Addict
A healthy man writes a letter to his addicted self.Read more
A Premeditated Meditation: Alcohol and the Angry Home-Schooling Dad
If they need time to learn, we must also give ourselves time to learn how to teach. #homeschool #alcoholRead more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Grieving Spouse
You’re engaged in ‘language-based self-conversations that resist reality with want.’Read more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Jealous Partner
Love includes trust, that’s not added in after. No trust? That’s not real love then.Read more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Self-Hating Teenager
Think about out it. You’re cutting your own skin!! How bad can these girls hurt us?Read more
My Suicide Note
This is not something you want to be reading. But I’ve done all I can do. The rest is up to you.Read more
Changes Here
It’s always helpful to take a new look at old things.Read more
Reinventing Reality
What makes a day good or bad? The events, or our thoughts about the events? #suicideRead more
Blinded by Thought
This is how our ego blinds us to our choices and opportunities, and channels us toward one life and not another.Read more
Turbulence
All turbulence and roughness is legitimately unfortunate. But it is also the way nature works. It can be very valuable to keep that larger context in mind.Read more
Inspiration, Motivation and Success
People often come to me seeking more direction in their lives. Fortunately, their request exposes the real issue.Read more
The Soul Letter
The strength of our soul is always within us, even when clouded by thought.Read more
The Appreciation Letter
A lot of the time, when people are struggling, what can help us is to help others.Read more
The Identity Ritual
A practice to employ when our minds are nimble. We must give our life’s energy to who it is we intend to be.Read more
Isolation Conflict: The A-Factor
Because of this phenomenon’s effect, our current conflict is actually impersonal.Read more
Intentional Appreciation
New ideas about people or places or things, need to be invited in.Read more
Kids, Parents and Confinement
This long weekend re-blog is a popular post from 2015, and it may be even more suitable to today.Read more
Kübler-Ross Meets Covid
This is the stage where we’re still hoping we can somehow make some small sacrifices and escape major pain.Read more
Expressions of Kindness
Being kind to others is also a kindness to ourselves.Read more
Reconnecting Society
Life never delivers all good or all bad. As the Buddhist saying goes, ‘every coin has two sides.’Read more
Our Unease with ‘Nowness’
Learning to balance on top of that uncertainty is a special kind of balance.Read more
How Adele’s Weight Loss Offers Us a Lesson in Mindfulness
People hate feeling the pain from their egos, but they only create it due to a lack of awareness.Read more
Broken Patterns
That drop in insecure self-narrative has a teeter-totter reaction and confidence suddenly rises.Read more
Brain Breaks
Sources of focus that avoid using language help to reduce our sense of ego, while also serving to increase our overall awareness.Read more
Taking the Wheel
Appreciation is a type of focus. It is a focus on value. Want is the absence of value and it misdirects our lives.Read more
Happiness Unleashed
We cannot exist without the whole, and the whole cannot exist without us.Read more
The Hum of Contentment
Where do we think our life has been so far today? And do we believe we can change that?Read more
An Irritating Advantage
Let’s not let irritations steal our focus from our path. The path alone has too much to offer.Read more
Rumbling Along
Irritation suggests that we are not fully on conscious. We can view that information as helpful.Read more
Focused Frustration
States of mind do not occur, we create them.Read more
Motivational Anger
This is the very essence of the force that is life itself. It’s why we’ll even fight a bear or a tiger. We’re fighting for life itself.Read more
Emotions as Energy
Suicidal feelings are not a sign of lost hope. They are sign that we have not focused our sense of imagination.Read more
M12: Come Here, Go Away
Do we write horrors? Tragedies? Comedies? Romances? Who are we as the author of our lives?Read more
M11: The Quality Assessment
Deep down, we’re better than we ever think. Know thyself.Read more
M10: Exposed by Awareness
What do we really know about the origins of ourselves, our beliefs and our ways of doing things?Read more
Room to Rant
One of the most loving things we can do is to give a struggling person room to rant.Read more
M9: Judgment Day
Our incessant judgments stand between us and the wonders of daily reality.Read more
M8: The Empathy Opportunity
This process tends to reduce our levels of confusion, frustration, and anger which is good for us.Read more
M7: Gauging Reality
Our success with today’s meditation depends on how conscious we manage to remain on a moment to moment basis.Read more
M6: Policing Desire
To have preferences is to be an individual. Being overly attached to them is to be a slave to our egos desires.Read more
M5: Relaxing the Soul
Whether it’s in our shoulders, chests, stomach’s diaphragms or backs, most of us hold our tension in our torso somewhere.Read more
M4: Exposing the Obvious
Learning to see anything or anyone in this ‘novel way’ is where our expansion will happen.Read more
M3: A Deeper Kind of Gratitude
The point is to winnow our grateful thing down to this kind of essence.Read more
Meditation 2: A Life of Purpose
The 2nd in series of meditations designed to help people through the Covid-19 Crisis.Read more
Morning and Evening Meditation: 1
The effects of this meditation may be subtle, but they are also profound.Read more
Conscious Change: Realizing Value
The online sessions will be designed to leave us with a positive sense of ourselves and of the world.Read more
Conscious Change: Mornings
Each weekday, join me here for a series of morning exercises via video.Read more
Free Q&A Sessions Commence
Starting today, I will begin a series of free on-line sessions via facebook live. Join us at 11am MST.Read more
Why History Repeats
In under 7 minutes, this video explains why people aren’t cooperating with health recommendations.Read more
Relax and Succeed TV: Comfort With Discomfort
We can benefit, is by getting more comfortable with discomfort.Read more
Charting Our Courses
If we would feel better if we blew up, then what we have to do is get good at blowing up.Read more
The Emotional Response Plan
Never is such a plan more important than when we’re under stress. #YEG #COVID19Read more
COVID Calm Down Calls
Don’t forget to still love life.Read more
COVID-19: Exposing Illusions
While there will be struggles to making changes, struggles pay dividends.Read more
COVID Coping
Around the world, people are struggling to adapt to a new normal.Read more
Pandemic Mindfulness
If we consider the virus as though it’s an alien invader from the planet COVID-19, then it’s weak compared to us.Read more
The Irony of Good and Evil
If we wanted to improve the world, this would be a great place to start.Read more
Playing Together
Everyone relax and let everyone else be. Without the judgment and tension, it’s easier to harmonize.Read more
Angry Fans and Parents
We can change by doing the same thing we want our teams and our kids to do, which is practice.Read more
Voluntary Mass Hysteria
It is good for us to gain a level of consciousness over which of these two general groups we are in.Read more
Pleasure and Distraction
Our ego seeks solace in distraction while our soul seeks value in meaningRead more
Wars of Identity
What Canadian kid ever says to their parents, are you sure I’m a Canadian?Read more
A Flexible Past
Our egos see our pasts like a book. It is a fixed, printed page, and it occurs in the order of a clock and a calendar.Read more
Freedom Through Acceptance
It is wiser to shift to a focus on soul-based shared experiences rather than on ego-based victories and defeats.Read more
Resistance and Flow
Egos compete and create resistance and souls flow and let it go. This is the motion of livingRead more
A New Perspective on Bullying
Helpful guidance if you or your child has been haunted by bullying.Read more
Thoughts as Society
Life brings us together by eventually humbling whoever we think we are.Read more
Became and Become
It is worthwhile for everyone to occasionally stop and review life from this perspective.Read more