While we maintain integral solitary meditation practices, I find it additionally valuable to engage in group meditative activity, whether that’s actual meditation practice or ceremony. The development levels vary within groups; backgrounds, experiences and skill sets also differ among participants. When ceremonial facilitation is performed with excellence, these distinctions dissolve, …
How to Use Your Environment to Evolve Your Epigenetics
Our immediate environment influences us daily, touching our senses and mingling with our mental states. Environment is the facilitator for epigenetic changes we experience. What we think, feel, see, hear, touch, taste and smell alter us each moment. By overtly focusing on magnanimous steps, we can overlook the more immediate …
2 Paths to Esoteric Independence
Our current version of Independence here in the U.S. devotes a single day to celebrate the nation’s sovereignty from the European power in the 18th Century. We mark this day with family gatherings, fireworks and a day off of work. Perhaps we’ll invest time at the beach. The newer trend …
Perspectives on the Mini-Computer
Just a few: 1. This mini-computer in my hand has potential to reach a billion people on the planet. 2. I can reach a billion people with this mini-computer sitting crossed-legged on the floor while sounding off my singing bowl. Or while drinking tea. 3. With just a word processor, …
Take A Walk for Creative Thinking
“I’m gonna take a walk.” This is a common statement guys on TV say when they want to clear their minds after an argument, often with the lady of the house. He goes to “burn off steam.” But walking doesn’t have to be treated only as a therapeutic release. A …
10 Consciousness Traps to Transcend
Along our spiritual path (growth path, personal development, call it what you wish) there are decision branches that sprout in many directions. These tend to be created based on our choices and sometimes they appear to be present not for our highest good. Maliciously intending to throw us off our …
Digital Protection Resource: Synology Cloud Station Suite
I’ve held a long-term interest in understanding the various ways our privacy is exchanged for access. What used to be a basic trade (address info for opening up a bank account) has become a full-on assault to capture as much info as possible. This drive to digitize all information of …
Contact Follow-Up Basics
Lack of follow-up is a dastardly habit many of us suffer from. It looks like this: John Doe meets Jane Doe. John and Jane have a valuable conversation. They sync and recognize they could do business together. John gives Jane his contact information. Jane gives John hers. They part ways …
3 Reasons to Take Meeting Minutes
Unless you’re working in a well-developed organization, you may not come across meeting minutes. “Meeting minutes” are literally the minutes (or moments) recorded from a meeting. When there are many members in the meeting, it’s likely there will be plenty of information, recommendations, cross-talk, possible disputes, ideas, all sorts of …
3 Questions to Ask Employers on Interviews
An interview is an opportunity for the candidate and employer to evaluate each other and confirm if value matches the role offered. Mentioned in one of my previous writings, this engagement is a reciprocal relationship and should be treated as such. When the candidate forgets this, she becomes susceptible to …
How to Transmute These Self-Destructive Word Programs
Some of us may use these words without realizing, recognizing that they’re part of the daily way of things. Aware or not, when combined with meaning they create recipes for debilitating our life force, and consequently sabotaging our outcomes. It’s important for us to bear in mind that words frame …
Avoid the Speed Reading Epidemic
Within the self-development space there’s a cohort focusing on how to speed read. That is, how to read faster to acquire more information. While it sounds like a super power, at the root it really is just another symptom of the quick-fix epidemic we have in the U.S. The thinking …
How to Master E-mail Management
Two conversations over the past days sparked interest in covering E-mail management. Checking my inboxes from the multiple E-mail accounts, I thought having 40-60 new messages was a large number. Some of us are working with 1000-18,000 new inbox messages! Reflected on my time career counseling college students and this …
Acquiring Vs. Manifesting Happiness
The more happiness remains an abstract ideal the more challenging it becomes to manifest. The language used around this word automatically plagues a person’s success. Happiness is not something we find, grab, capture, receive or are given. Marketing programs teach us that some external thing will be the provider of …
The Power of Steps
Steps are symbolic of journey points. They ascend or descend, or can zigzag depending on the design. Steps represent motion, movement in some direction. Steps are ever-present; they represent the “what’s been here all along” we may not recognize if dominated by emotional excesses. Steps request action from us. We …
Cover Letter Philosophy
You might be thinking: a philosophy about a cover letter? What’s the importance of that? It’s important to understand there’s a philosophy to each document or activity involved in career development. These philosophies deal with the “Why” of them. So while one might know how to write a cover letter …
How to Apply Wakandan Philosophy to Amplify Self-Education
The Black Panther movie needs no building up from this blog. I watched it twice and (don’t worry; no spoilers in this piece) enjoyed its story, nuances and found the work to be a valuable addition to the Panther’s universe, broadly introduced in the Avengers movie. If you haven’t watched …