Ep: 001 What is Shadow Casting?

We have launched our new Podcast. Join us as we explore how we make use of the ideas that live in shadows and casting. AND, see how these ideas help us all celebrate our humanity. Music by: Colors Conflicted

The Power of Thoughts: Lao-Tzu and Vivekananda on Change

Today we are exploring 2 quotes, one by Lao-Tzu and another by Swami Vivekananda. Both look at how our character is built, first and foremost, on the thoughts we think. Watch your thoughts; they become words.Watch your words; they become actions.Watch your actions; they become habits.Watch your habits; they become character.Watch your character; it becomes…

This is Ego

It’s hard to catch the shape of fear. Why? Because we believe the story she weaves. Her goal seems noble, safety. Out of it we build compulsive habit that feels right.  This unconscious survival is her way to repeat and relive the past. Did you realize that’s what he did with the past? He would…

1 year (365 days) of daily meditation

BOOM! Where did that other Jeep come from? I was doing a U-turn and I’m certain it wasn’t there a second ago. Ah my horse is about to run out of the open gate! Oh crap, I don’t have time to close it fully. Abort! Abort! Too late, my wrist is now throbbing with pain…

PLAY Mindset™

You can check out the Survival cycle and Fulfillment cycles here. Now onward and upward! The practice that turns a Survival cycle into a Fulfillment cycle is what I call the PLAY Mindset™.  As stated in the last post on the Fulfillment cycle, the mindset isn’t about leisure or recreation. It’s a set of skills…

Fulfillment Cycle

Yesterday I wrote about the Survival Cycle, and if you’re human, you’ve been in this cycle. It’s a part of having a mind and living this life. Everyone steps into the Survival Cycle in some aspect of his or her life every now and again. The problems with the Survival Cycle happen when it’s the…

Survival Cycle

Do you ever feel like you are in this cycle? Auto-pilot -> having the same thoughts, feelings and actions that have really become habitual. Some patterns you chose others are unconscious. Fear -> a feeling that something is off and it’s unknown so you can’t do anything about it and no one else seems to…

Just Me!

Prologue: This piece is inspired by a story I read years ago.  It’s more a lecture, to me, than a story as it is speaking directly to the reader.  It speaks of a room you are in where all is known about the room.   A place you’ve lived in all your life and you’ve…

New Cup

So here I stand
cup in hand…