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 weeks, I have had the most interesting dreams!  Most of them have included places and people from my childhood and early adult years, with repeating themes and outcomes.  It has been fascinating to witness how my subconscious mind is playing out what it feels is unresolved.

Pisces energy is often very dreamy, watery, illusory, and deep.  And as you know, the deeper you go in a body of water, the darker it gets, the more pressure you feel.  So when we dream, this is often a time for our mind to go fishing into the depths, to see what needs attention, understanding, or healing.

The image that I get whenever I meditate on these issues is an untangling.  We know that when we pull cord or string that is tangled, we usually make it worse.  If we try to untangle it too fast, without assessing, we just add to the mess.

So what I have been doing is allowing my mind and my energy to float in the watery energy and to untangle itself.  And do you know what this requires?  Surr...