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    Before We Part

    The only thing that is permanent is change. Some of those changes can rough you up quite drastically. Others are so sweet, you wish they would never end. Yet all of them will eventually pass.
    So the real question is, how you deal with changes? In there lies the secret of who You will become. The secret sauce in all of this is choice, which is informed and determined by the perspective you take. So how I position myself when it comes to the wild turns of life makes all the difference.

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    No Way

    We don’t want to get a no as an answer. Or, do we? In our communication there are lots of yesses we make shine as bright as billboards on a main road. But oh so often a yes does not mean a yes, but simply avoids saying a no.
    Here’s a high praise to the art of saying no, for while it may feel harsch in the moment, it opens up routes of new possibility. It get’s rid of mind-junk and allows you to focus your energy at where it’s really happening.

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    Toriodal Ambiguation

    Awareness is a condition for freedom. But how do I increase my awareness? There is an age-old and proven way to do so which goes by the term meditation. A lot of us associate meditation with the idea of sitting cross-legged in a lotus position with closed eyes. And of course one can do that, and for good reasons. The true magic of meditation, though, is the space it opens up inside of me.
    As Buddhist teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche has put it so nicely, it’s about accessing stillness, silence and spaciousness inside of me. There I find the room to wiggle, which will allow me to chose where I want to go. If I don’t *have to* do something, then I’m truly free to choose. So, follow the white rabbit into the wonderland of becoming aware that you are aware…