Desire for the Magical
What if one of our fundamental gut desires is to believe in the non-factual, the unproven, the ineffable? May we call that kind of desire a “desire for the magical” without placing any judgment on it? Watch video or listen to the audio Why? Could this help us understand those in the hard sciences who […]
What’s All This Shift?
No Shift! Meet The Shift. Our awareness is in transition. From the Age of Enlightenment through Modernism, things worked pretty well. Around the time of John F Kennedy’s assassination, a Post-Modernist period swung back against Modernism, and our recent global pandemic will probably be marked as another pivot in awareness. Some have begun to refer […]
Stranger Things and Your Power Music
Running Up That Hill is clearly a powerful song for Max’ heroic journey in the latest season of Stranger Things. Evidence from the music therapy field supports this decisive moment: the power of music is personal. Our choices about the music we love, combined with our emotional connection to those specific songs, can literally save […]
Finding The 5D Managers We Need Now
Civilization, Productivity, and Happiness As a civilization, we have made remarkable technological advances. So, why do we still treat employees like servants? “Bossing” is and has been all about bigger better faster. When management tries to elevate a servant-employee to something more enlightened, cracks in the walls of bigger better faster appear. So how do […]
The Badass Way to Master Sadness, Distress, Depression, and Anxiety
Have you done this? Tried anything to quickly relieve the stress, sadness, pain, pressure, <insert trouble here>? Are you ready for the badass way to master sadness, distress, depression, and anxiety? Drugs, therapy, meditation, emotional intelligence, plant medicine, religion, mindfulness <insert intervention here> – anything for a few moments of relief or even joy? […]
A New Approach To What Your Top Ten Songs Say About You
Go ahead: stop reading this right now and make a list of your personal top ten songs of all time. Most of us can name and remember more than ten, so this will be easy. Write them down – no need to rank them, just make the list, but number the songs one to […]
How good are you with fear, or how do you own your own dopamine?
As a guardrail, fear isn’t such a bad emotion. Fear keeps us from sticking our hands into the fire a second time. But what about fear as manipulation? Fear of the unknown, fear of missing out, fear of repeating history…this kind of fear is subtler. How good are you with this kind of fear? Would […]
Freedom with Responsibility
“You want rights? Ask ‘em…they’ll read ‘em!” – Michael Franti Are you free? Think about it carefully. If you are making payments on anything, you’re not free of debt. If your income depends on investments, you’re not free of capitalism. If your house is jammed with stuff, you’re not free of […]
Boldly Go with Courage and Compassion – for Yourself
Boldly Go “The finest treasures of humanity are hidden where people are most afraid to go.” – Alberto Villolodo, Colette Baron-Reid, Marcela Lobos: “Mystical Shaman Oracle Guidebook” It’s time to boldly go with courage and compassion for yourself…into a significant future. It’s time to boldly go. Away from the sex and hype and fear that’s […]
The Long Tail of Internet Marketing Noise
There are about a hundred other things I ought to be doing right now, and that’s probably true for you, too. But, as someone who’s highly tuned-in to sound and rhythm, I have to take a few minutes to think authentically with you about all this Internet online marketing noise. Technology used to be […]