Isn’t it nice to have that feeling of “I got things figured out. I got this. I understand. I get it. I know what’s going on. I know the lay of the land. I know the way things work. I have this whole thing figured out.” And it’s a very nice feeling to wear this […]

In the last video, I talked about being stuck within a certain role or with a certain label, the idea of being a certain “type” of person. And we can sort of automatically become stuck into treating ourselves as if we are a certain type of person, whether it might be a good label or

It seems like one of the mental holes we can fall into, or maybe it’s more like a mental box we can put ourselves in, is to see ourselves as being a certain “type” of person. I’m a certain kind of character. And we sort of build this kind of construct of the type of

I talked about the idea of giving and receiving, that we have to do both in order to have a complete interaction between people. But it seems like this is also something that we can apply to ourselves. We have within ourselves both of these modes of being, and even within ourselves can apply both

When we’re looking at this idea of leading and following, giving and receiving, it’s maybe normal to think of the idea of how a leader is like a boss, and then the follower is like an employee, servant, who works for the boss. So if you look at it this way, the employee or servant

When it comes to this idea of trusting the universe, putting it in the hands of whatever’s out there and just being okay with whatever happens: not an easy thing to do sometimes, and it seems like one of the pieces that makes it difficult, one of the areas of resistance against having that kind

You know, ideas and words of wisdom are so often just all over the place and contradictory to each other. And we look at them from different fields of life, and we get teachings in one area that go against the other area. So it’s often interesting to kind of combine these, see how they

I really like looking at this idea of the wheel of the year, and the different seasons, and the feeling that each of the different seasons has throughout the year. And right now this is the high summer feeling. This is the heatwave feeling. There’s been a heatwave here for the past several days. And

The word nostalgia comes from this nost meaning the “homecoming” and then algia meaning pain, the pain of homecoming, but really meaning the pain of wanting to return home. It started as meaning homesickness, this kind of feeling of pain and just this kind of suffering feeling that comes from being far away from home

There’s an idea that I like from the medical field, going back to ancient times with Hippocrates: the idea that a doctor does not actually heal anybody. And that if we talk about a person being a healer, or somebody healing somebody else, that this is really a shorthand. But there’s no actual direct healing