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Written by Magdalena Lynch & Trent Rhodes Trends used for clickbait likes and followers exist in many industries and career development is no different. Especially in the new-grad / career-changer realm, the clientele potential is ripe for tapping into people’s pain points about job search struggles. If there only was …
Blue – Throat – Expression / Communication Even though the blue chakra sits quite high up on the scale compared to many of the energy centers, it may be one of the most understood at a practical level. Sometimes it’s solely associated with the throat, but the voice box is a singular instrument …
Purple – Third Eye / Pineal / Intuition / Insight / Wisdom This chakra is all about sight and time. We’ll go backwards to the throat after this one. I think it’s pertinent to understand this before touching expression. Recall a time when you enjoyed an experience, perhaps so immersed in …
New Age has been infiltrated. For some time now. A quick scan through The Guru Papers will show just how rampant the spiritual hijacking is in the consciousness community. It’s not uncommon for a woman to have recollection of some man sitting on the meditation cushion preaching high concepts to a group, only …
This work is prefaced by a Do Not Enter sign. They’re put up to prevent people from entering a space. Interestingly, Do Not Enters actually aren’t meant to prevent everyone,only those who aren’t supposed to have access. If you see a construction team’s Do Not Enter, it’s known everyone but the …
The fall season is near. Also called autumn. We can observe the changes. Cooler temperatures. The trees lose their leaves. General energetic quietude. It’s a contemplative season that invites us to go inward. Intensified thinking. More acute sensing. It’s a harvest season. Like every season, each carries particular energies and patterns we …
Evidence of this desire-validation is more pervasive as we become a more digitally-oriented species in this Age. It’s subtle, yet if we examine with a critical eye we can see just how worldly the imperative for the external world to acknowledge, to justify, to be agreeable is now. One of …
How we respond to a challenge depends on our relationship to it. We can be antagonistic towards it, engaging in a ceaseless tug-of-war towards an uncertain end. Sometimes its force is stronger, so it pulls us off of our focus. Distress triggered. Other times we gain the advantage and position …
Affirmations can be potent enough to induce behavioral change. By adopting certain power statements, we can alter mindset and the appropriate internal chemistry necessary to solidify the frame. It’s a body-mind process. While affirmations are proposed by many self-help gurus, people who have thought leadership seats may not even know …
Inspiration has a different texture from novelty. Something new doesn’t necessarily evoke inspiration. We can also be inspired by that which isn’t new. When it hits, we have direct verification of how important it is for flourishing. What is inspiration exactly? Inspiration derives from spirit [In = inner + spira …
KISS-ing (Keeping It Simple Stupid) with this one, as each subject can be written about to much greater depth. Empathy will become more popular, more sensationalized in the coming months as an antidote for the increasing narcissism awareness. Books like The Narcissism Epidemic and documentaries like The Social Dilemma are …
Success can be examined as a process, or activity of moving from one state to another based on the intention. Example: if the goal is to jog once per day in the afternoon, one can perform a self-assessment to discover the reason why this is a challenge. One can also …
Despite what’s being presented on the news stations, the number one health attacker in U.S. society remains…stress. Here’s how this state’s been operating for a long time here, creating conditions for more severe illnesses. Stress is a subjective state, meaning not everyone stresses over the same experiences or in the …
The two appear to be the same but have distinct energies. Reflecting back to undergrad, there was a time when “servant leadership” was on the business agenda list. In the texts, among the types of leadership described, servant leadership was given most praise. The way this form was described made …
Much focus goes towards self-development and the forward-moving action, it’s a movement and has been for some time, which is beneficial because a person’s energy goes where the mind flows or concentrates. With more commentary in this area, however advanced or elementary, the culture becomes more permeated with ideas in …
What can be more dangerous than a physical attack? A mental one of course. Subtler and intangible, a mental assault can do its job in seconds, quietly penetrating the psyche, weaving into the mind as an idea, latching onto the host’s intellect. Contorting the emotions. Those familiar with the Naked …
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” – Confucius “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.” – Lincoln “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it …