When we are under a lot of stress, we can understandably feel deathly afraid to admit feeling a sense of despair.  It is significant that despair is part of the next-to-the-last stage of grief, right before the final stage of acceptance, which is where complete resolution and healing occur.  When we are in the throes …

It's all about listening The “center” of centering is listening.  Listening is a lost art in the world.  We are not taught the essentials of the art of listening in our culture.  Instead we are told in many significant ways that are tied to how our culture determines its sources of power that we must …

 Not Trusting Keeps Us in a Trap of Perpetual Inner Stress  We live in a world that carries many longstanding belief systems that tell us we can't afford to easily, or even fundamentally at all, trust.  When we lose our ability to trust we come to terribly and helplessly understand the interrelated and devastating results …

Accept the Call to Open Yourself Up to Completion and New Beginnings All things experienced in life come to an end, whether we are delighted or devastated when that happens.  Life occurs in cycles, and when the cycle has fundamentally come to its natural end, we are best meant, and held fully accountable by the universe, …