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The Freedom to Choose

Are you completely free to make a choice? If you would have asked me that question a few years ago, even a year ago, I would have said yes in a heartbeat. I was not in a situation where I would have had to deal with negative consequences because I made a certain choice – […]

Underneath the surface

The school shooting last week in Florida had me sit and look deeper. I get the call to limit access to guns, especially semi-automatic guns. Yet the question that kept coming up for me was: Will this solve the problem? Dealing with the availability of guns is dealing with the surface issue. It took me […]

Ask and You Shall Receive

Have you had the experience of asking and nothing happened? I have and I have been wondering what it is that I am not getting. Here are some things I learned and using them had quite an effect. I have been asking for things I felt I needed. “Universe, I need …..” The Universe gave […]

Is a Problem a Problem?

Recently, some friends and I had a conversation about problems we have. The question was asked: What would be if none of us had a problem? We realized that a) we would not fit in if we didn’t have a problem since most people have problems; b) we would not know what to do if […]

Ask a Question

There are all kinds of different questions. ‘Why did I do that?’ This is one where you have already come to a judgment of yourself and attached a question mark to it. ‘Why does this not work?’ This one has a conclusion of how something is supposed to work with an attached question mark. Neither […]

What is right about this?

We have our expectations. And yes, we all know and have heard it a hundred times that we should not have any expectations. Still, somehow we do. So how do we deal with a behavior, an event, or a result that is not what we wanted, hoped for or expected? This is something that occurs for […]

Receiving

In preparation for this post, I looked up the definitions of receiving. There are many, therefore I will clarify about which kind of receiving I am talking about: to get or be given something; to react to something. How is it for you if someone gives you something? Let’s say it is something small in […]

Polarity

What is it that we like so much about polarity? What is our need to have the either – or in our world? I wonder if it is connected to our need for judgment – or is it the other way around? I find myself becoming more and more aware of the polarity in the […]