Ingredients of success

Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: these are it. After meditating and writing about the idea of success, these are what I came up with.  First, we must breathe and breathe deeply. Accessing our breath allows us to build and extend our patience not to mention oxygenating our blood and maintaining all our systems. Remember,…

A success equation

Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I love the free-write portion of my journaling in the morning. The realizations sometimes come fast. And sometimes they knock me on the noggin and go, “Yeah, we’ve been trying to tell you this for the last 35 years.”  The temptation to burn out rather than fade away can…

Walking the Labyrinth: Prayer, Contemplation, Meditation, and Inspiration

A friend just asked how to use the time while walking a labyrinth. I walk every labyrinth I come across. I love them for their ancient wisdom and the answers and insights they help me find. First, I would say there are as many answers as there are people. For myself, I walk labyrinths to…

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Moving Beyond Terror. First Step: Breathe

Anyone who has ever worked with me, in any teaching capacity, knows my first act when teaching is to get everyone to stop and breathe. Whether I am working with fourth graders or NASA scientists, I always say the following: “Before we start, I’m going to ask you all to stand on up …” and…