My Life In Color (45)
An artist’s reflective project mapping the phases of her life to representative colors, with a white overlay for self-growth and the emergence of the true self, inviting readers to imagine their own life in color.
Shifting – What Beliefs Will You Need In Your New Life?
A manifestation exercise focused on the inner self, guiding readers to catalog how they will feel and which beliefs must change to match a desired new life, since experiences file new beliefs into the subconscious.
Lesson Themes For This Life
A reflective life review tracing the author’s challenges across 44 years — schooling, marriage, divorce, financial ruin, and letting go of possessions and grown children — to surface recurring lessons about truth, boundaries, the effect of money, and freedom through letting go.
Audience Question: I have to admit, I have been holding off trying to manifest anything because I am terrified that I will ask for the wrong thing, or get it in a bad way. I am paralyzed by trying to make the perfect request. Help!
An audience-question answer for someone paralyzed by fear of manifesting the wrong thing — reassuring that fear of one’s own power is healthy, and offering best practices: start small, make requests from positive emotion, and ask for what forwards your purpose.
The Notes Project
A description of The Notes Project, a public art project in which uplifting handwritten question-cards, backed by artwork, are left for strangers to find — intended to spark surprise, joy, and a moment of self-connection in everyday life.
Stage 6 – Connecting To Yourself – Taking Responsibility For Your Life
A Stage Six teaching on taking full responsibility and authority for one’s own life — recognizing that one’s own choices, not other people, cause and can solve most problems — as the foundation for lasting change.
Stage 3 – Connecting With Others – Seeing Their Humanity Through Their Needs
A Stage Three exercise for moving beyond one’s own needs by imagining another person’s situation, feeling what they would need in it, and providing even a small part of that to recognize their shared humanity.
Stage 3 – Connecting To Your Sexuality – Mind, Body And Energy
A Stage Three teaching on connecting to sexuality through mind, body, and energy — examining beliefs and past experiences, honoring current needs, and using breath and attention to feel and move sexual energy alone or with a partner.
Stage 2 – Connecting To Your Needs
A Stage Two exercise in identifying and honoring personal needs across physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, medical, and purpose-driven categories, with guidance on examining unhealthy needs and revising the list as life and self evolve.
Stage 2 – Connecting To Experiences
A Stage Two teaching on separating identity from life experiences, good and bad, by examining what each event taught you, affirming that you are not your experiences, and consciously letting them go so you can move forward.
Stage 10 – How Physics Proves We Are One Consciousness (A Thought Experiment)
A Stage Ten thought experiment using quantum physics and the observer effect to argue that a single sentient consciousness underlies all reality, exploring how the first consciousness could have arisen and why individuals seem to have separate minds.
Fear Of Missing Out Has Us Missing Out Completely
An essay on how social media replaces real connection with shallow validation-seeking, detailing what people publicly share versus privately hide, and arguing that genuine human connection requires self-acceptance and sharing beyond the curated surface.
The Fallacy Of Using Expectation To Validate Our Current Self
A teaching essay arguing that expectation, of ourselves and others, is a device for validating a constructed sense of self, and that recognizing there is no fixed self can free us from the stress of the whole cycle.
How Hate Spotlights Your True Beliefs
A reflection arguing that hatred exposes a person’s secret beliefs, that hateful groups and individuals lash out at those they envy while proclaiming the opposite of what they fear, and that self-acceptance dissolves the impulse.
Being Forgotten – Death’s Gift To The Departed
A meditation on mortality and legacy, detailing how each generation is remembered in ever-thinner fragments until forgotten entirely, and reframing being forgotten as a release from the illusion of a permanent self.
Connecting To The Infinite Silence / Divine
A meditation practice for connecting to the infinite silence or divine presence within, guiding the reader to scan the body, open the lower dantian, set down worries, and rest in that inner space to make requests.
Connecting To The Silent Observer
A teaching on recognizing the silent observer within, the aware self that watches thoughts, body, and energy, distinguishing it from mind and body, and using that vantage point to consciously direct one’s life.
Forms Of Meditation And Prayer – A Simple Menu For Creating Your Own Optimized Routine
A practical menu of prayer and meditation forms, from gratitude and contemplation to breath focus, resting in silence, and manifestation techniques, offered so readers can experiment and build their own optimized routine.
Letting Go Of Knowing
A teaching on releasing the need to know the future or every answer, trusting that answers arrive when needed as you flow with life, and staying comfortable in not-knowing while still working toward understanding.
Trusting Your River / Universe / The Divine
A teaching on the river metaphor for life, blending fate and free will, explaining how flowing toward your purpose makes life easier, and offering an exercise in appreciating and releasing formative experiences to build trust.
Trusting Yourself
A teaching on trusting the silent observer and intuition by distinguishing genuine inner guidance from impulsive ‘monkey mind,’ using a review of past choices to build evidence that your true self can be relied upon.
Complete Connection Means Connecting Deeply To The Bad Stuff Too
A teaching on Complete Connection that urges meeting difficult experiences, fear, attachment, loss, disease, with compassion rather than avoidance, acknowledging them as integral parts of being human so they can dissipate.
Chaos and Order In The Physical Space
A personal reflection sparked by a seven-week kitchen renovation on how physical chaos pushes us into survival mode, and why a place of peace and order is essential for growth, creativity, and self-development.
Attachment = Expectation
A short teaching proposing that attachment is really expectation, that expecting people or things to comfort or complete us leads to disappointment, and that releasing expectation makes room for genuine connection instead.
How People Create Meaning – Rituals, Ceremonies, Body Positions, Hand Gestures And The Like
A teaching on how rituals, ceremonies, body postures, and hand gestures create and reinforce meaning, marking life transitions and focusing the mind, with encouragement to design personal rituals for meditation, prayer, and growth.