#289 – Can you be powerful, if you're not free?Or, as I read in this Dear Democracy (by Katy Dalgleish) post, "Do you need freedom to be powerful?"Yes, and no. It depends on how we define power and freedom.POWERIf power is the ability to in...

#288 – Who benefits when Egos raise up in arms everywhere?If personal boundaries that protect our emotional comfort are a growth blocker, physical boundaries that protect us from potential future threats are a community destroyer.In both cases, the E...

#287 – What are your boundaries trying to guard?When we take the view that "Hell is other people," as one of the characters in Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit puts it, we are creating our own hell.By determining that other people's behaviors or...

#286 – Can your attachment to being 'strong' keep you from accepting reality?Yesterday I had surgery. A sore that'd been on my ankle for four years turned out to be a basal cell skin cancer and needed to be removed.Today, I'm seeing how much the Ghos...

#285 – The most powerful question to ask yourself: So what?Questioning your thoughts with "so what?" will help you understand where your emotions come from and how they're trying to protect you, so that you can let them go.At the communication consul...

#284 – What makes you anticipate failure?Some people will say anticipating failure is the responsible thing to do. They want to ensure they're turning all the stones searching for all the ways something could go wrong.Of course, this position is base...

#283 – Who demands productivity at all costs?If I asked you: "would you rather feel productive and exhausted or rested but unproductive" –– what would you respond?If you're like me, you'd probably go with the former. Good ol' exhaustion beats an...

#282 – From lack to abundance––what happens when you change your focus?Yesterday, while doing my morning pages on the train platform, I noticed something: instead of reporting all the wonderful things I'd enjoyed so far in the day, I wrote about the...

#281 – Who would you be without fear?Fear, psychologists say, is a self-protective emotion. You spot a sabertooth tiger and run like crazy to find refuge.In such a context, yes, fear may protect you.But we don't live like that anymore––most of us don...

#280 – What's the best use of your power?"A great being doesn't use their power to make the universe––inside or out––be the way they want it to be. They use their power to accept the way it is." Michael A. SingerFor a while, I was convinced that I ne...