Opening As One Door Closes

Opening As One Door Closes Friends, The excerpt this week is from Nonviolent Communication teacher Meganwind Eoyang in the NVC newsletter. Meganwind has been an NVC trainer since 2001 and managed BayNVC’s Safer Communities Project. “I have been following a trajectory of opening over 23 years…. I have no illusions about nor desire for “staying…

The Voice For God In You

The Voice For God In You Friends, The excerpt this week is from A Course in Miracles teacher Jon Mundy’s 4/10/22 post, The Voice for God in You. ” ‘Why should you listen to the endless insane calls you think are made upon you, when you can know the Voice for God is in you?’…

Spiritual Practices in Daily Life

Spiritual Practices in Daily Life Friends, The excerpt this week is from a blog by Craig Hamilton entitled, “Life as a Spiritual Practice: How to Bring the Energy of Awakened Consciousness into Every Moment of Your Life.” “… How can we bring spiritual practice—and spiritual awakening—into our daily lives? … I’ve come to believe that…

None of This Is Easy

None of This Is Easy Friends, The excerpt this week is from a BayNVC article by Sheila Menezes. Sheila Menezes is an Executive Coach, Leadership Trainer, Facilitator, and Mediator. She offers her expertise to help build cultures of empathy. She has brought Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into San Quentin State Prison with the Safer Communities Project…

Revolution of Love

Revolution of Love Friends, The excerpt this week is from a Lion’s Roar webpage with an essay entitled “Toward a Revolution of Love” by bell hooks. In December 2021, the world lost another powerful voice for love and justice, the seminal thinker and writer bell hooks. hooks made historic contributions in many fields, from feminism and…

Commitment to Stay Conscious

Commitment to Stay Conscious Friends, The excerpt this week is from a Michael Singer Podcast produced by Sounds True. “To really grow, you have to decide that’s what your life is about, nothing else. Everything else will be taken care of. In fact, it’ll do better than you could ever do with it. It won’t…

Polyvagal Theory

Polyvagal Theory Friends, The excerpt this week discusses how Polyvagal Theory offers precise science to understanding how the vagus nerve relates to our human ability to connect and communicate with each other. “Polyvagal Theory says the nervous system is queen. But all you hear in your mind and feel in your body, is that there’s…

Changing Your Relationship with Life

Changing Your Relationship with Life Friends, The excerpt this week is from Sounds True’s The Michael Singer Podcast entitled “From Fighting to Harmony – Changing Your Relationship with Life.” Michael Singer is the author of the widely influential New York Times bestseller “The Untethered Soul.” “Life is a very simple matter, which we make very,…

Power of Prayer

Power of Prayer Friends, The excerpt this week is from ACIM teacher Jennifer Hadley in her 3/03/18 and 12/04/19 Daily Spiritual Espresso blogs. “Why does prayer work? This is the important thing for us to understand. Our Spirit already knows why prayer works…. Our Spirit has no question about it, has no confusion about it….…

Real Change

Giving Your Heart to Real Change Friends, The excerpt this week is from Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True and edited from Tami Simon’s interview with Sharon Salzberg. Sharon is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, the host of the Metta podcast. For Sharon, the practice of meditation and…