How disrupting your week could help your mind find order-

This week, I deviated from the norm. And it has made all the difference.

Energetically, it’s been a charged few days (anyone else feeling frustration, anger, defensiveness?). I haven't felt much like myself, and I knew that forcing my usual routine would only deepen the resistance.

Over the years, I’ve learned that pushing too hard may get things done—but at what cost? The quality suffers. The experience suffers. I suffer. There is a fine line between making an effort and allowing the effortless to unfold.

I’ve been listening to Ram Dass talk about the dance between Being and Doing. Even on my best days, my mind wrestles with surrendering fully into Being. The part of me that craves control wants to Do.

But I think there’s an art to moving between the two—a rhythm we spend years, maybe lifetimes, learning to trust.

On Tuesday, I sat in Rosslyn Chapel, channeling and meditating on the year ahead. Two questions came throu...

Over the past few months, I've been watching shows and movies focusing on racing. I have been fascinated by the strength, speed, and responsiveness of the drivers, mechanics, and teams involved, working together like a complex dance, a complicated piece of music - the drivers exhibiting mastery of their senses, intuition, ability to read the road and conditions, the cars around them, the elements present.

In 2020, I was in Cambodia, marveling at the weaving of cars, bicycles, pedestrians, and motor bikes carrying multiple people with all of their bags and cargo. The roads were full, seemingly chaotic, but somehow, everyone was aware of what was happening all around, working with what was present, instead of fighting each other as they moved.

All of these scenarios present a picture of chaos, controlled chaos at best, but when you feel into the energy, there is pure flow at play.

I know that a lot of us have felt that we are floundering with the perceived chaos around and within us. ...