Life Changes
Apparently a red-flanked bluetail from Asia was spotted last week in Vancouver, and it seems it is a big deal. Now I’m not a birder, so I don’t really get excited about these things, but I was intrigued when the speculation about how it got here was raging. One theory is that it was caught up in a major storm front and blown thousands of miles from its habitat. Hmmm… just like all our lives, I thought. […]
Listen to Your Instincts, They Hold Your Destiny
It is a breakthrough in our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world to discover that our body has access to information beyond what the mind can understand. The body feels the world energetically. The body feels and the mind thinks; these are two different ways of obtaining information. When we rely only on the mind and our logic we close ourselves off to a huge source of information. […]
The Subconscious Contains Our Unused Potentials and Our Blockages
The subconscious contains within it our unused potentials, as well as the personal blockages that keep us stuck in the various problem areas of our life. I sometimes refer to these as our light and dark shadows. The word shadow is a Jungian term and refers to those parts of us that are unconscious. Being unconscious, we do not see them, but we often see their effects in our life, that is we don’t see what causes the shadow, but we see the effect. […]
Synchronicity and Signs from the Universe Explained
We all experience those strange, meaningful coincidences that feel like “signs from the universe” rather than random chance. These moments are what Carl Jung called synchronicities: acausal, meaningful connections between our inner world and outer events. This post explores what these synchronicities are and how our beliefs and expectations can invite more of them into our lives. What Is Synchronicity Synchronicity, to Jung, referred to the strange and unusual encounters or events that happen to individuals which appear on the surface to have no causal linkage; yet, have such a profound meaning to the individual that the event was [...]