A practical teaching on balancing yin and yang by blending their qualities within each activity, doing task-oriented work with sacredness and flow while doing creative work with focus and discipline, to find equanimity in every moment.
An examination of social spending pressure in its many forms, from dating, weddings, and divorce to mooching friends, wealthy friends, office parties, and social media, and how each pushes us to spend money we may not have.
An allegorical story in which a boy botches the killing of a wolf, and a seer transfers the wolf’s suffering into his heart so that he must face the karmic weight of the needless pain he caused.
An artist’s statement for The Bay Vision, a twelve-by-twenty-four-inch oil-on-canvas painting from 2022 depicting a recurring lifelong inner vision of a protected bay, a small boat, and calm, contemplative exploration.
A practical method combining focus and meditation to reduce performance anxiety, working backward from the hardest problem, fixing attention on a single point like a pencil tip, and keeping key information close at hand.
A yoga nidra script adapted for people with language-processing challenges, adding three-second pauses for comfortable processing while guiding awareness through preparation, relaxation, resolve, and a systematic rotation of consciousness through the body.
An essay on charitable giving that examines why people donate, the dopamine reward of generosity, why trillions in giving have not solved major problems, and which forms of charity prove most effective per dollar.
A tender story about a retired man who lovingly restores a neglected vintage tour bus, and the trust both must summon when the bus is left with strangers for a repair only specialists can perform.
A teaching essay reframing frustration as resistance to present reality — showing the real block isn’t attachment to an outcome but the inability to understand and accept the NOW, which is what unlocks a workable path forward.
![[Guided Meditation] Seeking Complete Connection](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0682-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Eleven task of seeking complete connection, a soul house-cleaning that steps through experiences, needs, others, beliefs, purpose, and the underlying oneness of energy and matter.
An essay tracing how faster, cheaper transportation and the internet expanded economic competition to global scale, introducing geoarbitrage, the practice of finding better value for money anywhere in the world, and its risks and opportunities.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Reality – E=mc^2](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0639-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Eleven task of connecting to your reality, using physics and the near-total emptiness of atoms to help the mind experience matter and energy as one and the same.
An artist’s statement for Sacred Copper Tree, a commissioned copper-wire sculpture roughly fourteen inches tall with 108 strands twisting into leaf-tipped branches, designed with awareness and twisted into life in flow state.
A reflection on karma as the accumulation of memory and emotional intention rather than divine punishment, distinguishing karma from pre-incarnation soul contracts and noting how repayment often arrives through unrelated people.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Ten task of connecting to the oneness and your influence, practicing existing alternately as physical body and as pervasive energy, and moving fluidly back and forth between the two.
An essay arguing that stock market movements reflect collective human emotion more than company fundamentals, with fear driving selling and cascading bot trades while a few researched investors profit from the resulting overreactions.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Higher Wisdom – Beyond Intuition](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0816-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Ten task of connecting to higher wisdom beyond intuition, reaching through the one consciousness to sense guiding presences and receive divine guidance toward one’s purpose.
A mythic allegory of one woman’s awakening — breaking free from society’s conditioning and oppressive relationships, surviving those who would keep her small, and returning to stillness and creation to claim her gifts and her purpose for humanity.
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A Stage Nine guided meditation for identifying the skills and knowledge your life purpose requires — visualizing living that purpose, meeting the inner voice of doubt, and breaking large learning goals into small daily steps.
A money essay explaining how governments use taxation to discourage behavior — higher taxes on cigarettes, gasoline, income, or property steer people’s choices — and inviting readers to notice which of their own decisions were shaped by tax policy.
![[Guided Meditation] The Big Bang And The One Consciousness (A Thought Experiment)](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Space-and-Stars.png)
A Stage Nine contemplative meditation presenting a thought experiment: drawing on quantum observation and wave-function collapse to argue that a single sentient consciousness has always existed, and that all people are extensions of that one consciousness.
A practical yoga essay on Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation, explaining why the twelve-posture sequence balances the whole body, regulates breath through built-in alternate-nostril effects, and benefits both serious athletes and spiritual practitioners through daily repetition.
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A guided meditation supporting the Stage Nine task of realizing one shared consciousness, moving the practitioner from present-moment mindfulness into energetically feeling other people and objects, and using the river-and-sea metaphor to convey interconnected oneness.
A money essay describing how governments use low-interest loans, grants, and tax breaks to encourage specific behaviors — starting certain businesses, buying property, or marketing more — and how the absence of a tax break quietly discourages activity.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting Completely To Your Partner](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/903148C4-00DF-4CAB-BA0F-D2492162E971-1080x675.jpeg)
A Stage Nine guided meditation for deepening couple connection — revisiting how you met, feeling awe, joy, and gratitude for your partner, envisioning a connected future together, and recognizing the divine light in one another.