Archive for October 2012

Thoughts, Thanks, and Things to Come

October 22, 2012 John Uncategorized No comments

Thanks to all who have been checking out the Jason Lincoln Jeffers interview. Ever since I can remember I’ve been a big fan of writers and speakers who give us a little peek at society’s future. Alvin Toffler, Faith Popcorn and Gerald Celente are favorites of mine, but when you can weave consciousness through that look down the road as Jason does in The Next Human, then you really get my attention. Listen to the interview here.

Good stuff on the way in the days ahead. Our scheduled Chi For Yourself guest in the first week of November will make his second visit to the show. Marc Allen returns to tell us about some easy-to-apply practices that can change the course of your life in miraculous ways, as they did his. Marc’s new book is The Magical Path.

Also in November we’ll be talking to Brian Leaf, author of Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi. Downward facing dog meets self-effacing dog!  More reasons to give thanks.

Speaking of thanks..I’ve been away from these pages for a few days, mainly because I did some work on a television commercial. That always puts my fun graph in the green.

Be grateful for something or someone today!

JohnK 10-22-2012

 

 

 

 

Overheard

October 11, 2012 John Uncategorized No comments

“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”

– Marcel Proust

 

JohnK 10-11-2012

The Universe Always Bats Last- Surrender Your Way to Consciousness

October 11, 2012 John Uncategorized No comments

Sometimes we go back to living in our heads. Sure, we thought we were past that stage. But it’s easy to slip back into the habits that keep us from taking heart-centered action. I woke up this morning with my to-do list and plans for the day fully in gear. Much of my activity would have me outside, in the sunshine, the elements. But wait! It’s raining..suddenly a change of plans..

 
 

        Never Mistake Activity for Accomplishment

Those are the words of the great UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. Keeping busy is not necessarily a sign of meaningful activity. On this rainy day it might be best to let the rain fall and use the occasion to go into a mode of gratitude. Gratitude for the needed rain..for the chance to have all the abundance that the rain will bring..for a chance to change the schedule that the universe somehow knew had to be changed.

Surrender as a Strength

Surrendering our plans and concerns to the universe doesn’t mean that we’ve given up or have been defeated. Instead, we’re releasing and thus freeing ourselves from investment in the outcome. Environmental types sometimes use the baseball metaphor ‘nature always bats last’ when reminding us that nature has the last word. We can make the change we need and realize our dreams when we finally let go and allow the universe to ‘swing for the fences.’

JohnK  10/11/2012