The Practice of Your Life

The Exercise and Pursuit of a Consciously Created Life

Using Technology

May 31
2008

We can do so much today that was not possible for our parents. We can write books, make movies, video games, music and more. We can even even market them ourselves. Not to mention all of the productivity applications that are out there.

Yesterday I leaned of a new productivity tool called “The Brain.” This thing allows you to visualize the relationships among as many thoughts as your brain can produce. Well probably not. But it can definitely handle enough to be useful.

There is no way that anyone can master everything that’s out there. No one person can do that. The trick is to pick the few that will further your goals and develop a practice of developing your skills using them. “The Brain might be an… Continue reading

Your health

May 27
2008

Don’t take it for granted. On October 21st 2007 my friend Greg married the woman of his dreams. Picture perfect wedding with loved ones in attendance. Couldn’t get any better than that. Life is good.

About a month later Greg’s new wife was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (melanoma) and their world was turned upside down. They have been bravely facing their greatest challenge together and their courage and strength continues to inspire me.

Mags’ (Greg’s wife) situation also got me thinking about the law of attraction and the belief held by a growing number of people that illness is a manifestation of some incompletion (hate, hurt, anger etc.) that a person is carrying around with them. A friend tells me that Louise Hay is one of the major proponents… Continue reading

Taking the plunge

May 23
2008

Yesterday I had lunch with two dear friends. I’m in their hometown of Toronto so needless to say we don’t see each other much. So much to catch up on when you don’t see each other often. We’re not “old” friends in that we only met about a year ago at one of those personal growth courses and most of our conversation had to do with how our lives are unfolding since and maybe because of those experiences.

What was really cool (love that word, so young) was how much we each had to say. From profound personal experiences, personal epiphanies, new directions and careers and of course gossip. OK I never said I was perfect, sometimes – not often – I find myself in a juicy gossip conversation and I’ll… Continue reading

Getting even

May 21
2008

I am a big proponent of “letting go,” as an essential practice in living my life (as a practice). That’s a very challenging thing to do when you grow up in a world that teaches you that there are people who are bad and wrong, and where there is no distinction between the behavior and the person exhibiting the behavior.

Do a bad thing? Then you’re a bad person.

One example of letting go vs. getting even that comes to mind is of a person I contracted with for considerable expense (at least for me) to do a job. I paid all of the money (not smart in hindsight) even with the job not completed, and from the moment the last payment was received the level of service… Continue reading

An Ordinary Moment

May 19
2008

Someone pointed out to me recently that life has its peaks and valleys, emotional highs and lows, but for the most part we mostly have ordinary moments.

Profound.

It’s these ordinary moments where we live our lives, and in learning to love these ordinary moments where we have the experience of loving our lives.

Today I brought appreciation to one of my ordinary moments, or rather a flow of ordinary moments. I met my new very special friend and together we found a new restaurant that we both liked and we had a very special conversation. We then parted and I did one of my favorite “ordinary” things in New York city which is to wander around the city. I left Union Square and walked into the East Village and into Tompkins Square… Continue reading

Are there no lies then?

May 16
2008

This question only makes sense as a follow up to my last two posts so if you haven’t read them please do.

The answer to the question is there most definitely are, and you can consider a more powerful relationship to lies that is less destructive to relationships and more supportive of your being a compassionate loving human being. You can more successfully weather the detours from your quest for truth when the people in your communities willfully choose to not tell you their truth – when people lie – by learning to distinguish a lie from another interpretation of the truth. Your job is to first be clear that someone is being authentic in their efforts to communicate their truth to you.

It doesn’t matter that their… Continue reading

Are beliefs true?

May 14
2008

Because you believe something does it make it true? There was a time when educated people believed the world was flat, that ships could not be made of metal, the earth was the center of the solar system and indeed, the universe. The answer should be obvious yet, this is a very deep question. How you listen to it will depend on your view of the truth. If you have the truth as something that exists out there, apart from you that is real, describable and unchanging, then the answer is it may or may not be. If you believe that the “truth” is not something that exists apart from you but rather is part of you, and is affected by your attention to it, then the answer is… Continue reading