Posted August 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Behind Every Behavior Is A Positive Intention

…our culture, and also a lot of psychotherapies, demonized various parts of us, and think they are what they seem to be— which never turns out to be the truth.

~Richard “Dick” Schwartz No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

One of the presuppositions of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) […]

Posted July 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Subjective

So many times over the years I have found myself sharing how the ambiguity of language is both a hindrance and a help. You may recall that Neurolinguistic Programming has been described as the study of the structure of subjective experience.

The key word here is SUBJECTIVE.

In the Karaniya Metta Sutta (The […]

Posted May 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Metaphorical Magic

A friend shared a page from The Light of Discovery, by Toni Packer. Toni Packer was a teacher of “meditative inquiry”, and the founder of Springwater Center. Packer was a former student in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism, and was previously in line to be the successor of Phillip Kapleau at the Rochester […]

Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Willingness to Change

“Death isn’t quite as scary as the exhilarating terror of trying to accept life.”

Carlsbad, California, June 2006, “The Scariest Thing,”, AA Grapevine

Accepting life right now means adapting to a lot of change. By the first of June, in the past many years, I would have for a couple of months been comfortably settled […]

Posted September 30, 2018 in Monthly News

Living on Borrowed Time

You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe. ~ Rumi

In a recent blog, I shared the deep emotions I have been experiencing around this third third of my life.

Readers of Yellow Brick Road know I am actively processing the undeniability of our […]

Posted November 28, 2017 in Monthly News

The Power of Your Light

In the U.S. December is considered a month of darkness. The days are short, the skies are often gray, and the warmth is ebbing. This is all going on in the external world, so we light candles, stoke the fire, and enjoy a cup of hot tea. Of course, these are also part of the […]

Posted April 30, 2017 in Monthly News

Sitting Still

Recently, I saw the following quotation in an article by Tommy Rosen, founder of Recovery 2.0, a tool that uses mindfulness (yoga) for recovery from addictions. Given that we are all dealing with aversion and grasping, longing and dreading, clinging and avoiding, the quotation can serve as the basis for all our recovery.

We […]

Posted December 31, 2016 in Monthly News

Let's Laugh

After having my blood pressure be relatively stable since August after it spiked in May of this year, it spiked again last week. I am once again surrendering to the release of old emotional patterns. (You may appreciate reading my earlier blog post if this is news to you: Three Days Without Anxiety Medication.)

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