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- [Do You Have a Sounding Board?](https://imagineself.com/do-you-have-a-sounding-board/) - What is a sounding board? In my earlier email on managing stress, I shared how important it is to have a sounding board. Understanding the qualities of a sounding board is essential. What makes a sounding board...a sounding soul? A sounding board resonates with wonder, encouragement, compassion, intelligence, discernment, creativity, multiple perspectives, and
- [Managing Your Stress](https://imagineself.com/9046-2/) - A Way to Manage Stress A client wrote that she needed support in facing stress in five areas of her life. She was dealing with emotional, moral, and practical challenges in so many roles/relationships in addition to her health. Prior to our conversation I sent her a request: Think about each stress separately
- [My Daily Review for Wisdom, Freedom & Love](https://imagineself.com/my-daily-review-for-wisdom-freedom-love/) - As the year comes to a close, I am thinking of how my day comes to a close. Do you end your day with a review? I do! Most days. In early March 2023, I experienced an inspiration. I book a Five Year Diary to use for my nightly practice of reviewing
- [Remembering](https://imagineself.com/remembering/) - Many of us gather together to celebrate those we love who are now across the Threshold of Death, no longer sharing earthly space and time with us, but still living in our hearts. We may light candles and tell stories. Memories and grief come alive as we recollect precious relationships.
- [More about Inner Martha & Inner Mary](https://imagineself.com/more-about-inner-martha-inner-mary/) - The Biblical Relationship Mary and Martha, like everyone else in the Gospels, live in relationship to Jesus/Christ. Martha meets the earthly needs of the human being, Jesus, in whom the Christ incarnated and Mary engages with the Christ and the purpose of his incarnation. These are social/spiritual deeds. Both Mary and Martha were in
- [Imagine the Caregivers of Body & Spirit](https://imagineself.com/8794-2/) - Martha was the keeper of the house, who made sure that the home was harmonious and nurturing for Jesus. Mary was the feminine intelligence who conversed and engaged with the incarnated Christ. Martha managed. Mary engaged. They both cared. From esoteric knowledge, Jesus was the Son of Man born as a babe in a
- [Soul, Self, & ChatGPT](https://imagineself.com/soul-self-chatgpt/) - Several months ago the world changed. ChatGPT and artificial intelligence was made available to everyone. How will you respond to this new world? Will your soul find a greater sense of self or lose itself? ChatGPT is like a technological Pentecostal event. We now have a technology that can speak an infinite number of languages, respond to
- [Threefold Wisdom](https://imagineself.com/threefold-wisdom-ego-sophia/) - Essential distinctions between Theosophia, Anthroposophia, and Egosophia
- [Looking at Loneliness](https://imagineself.com/looking-at-loneliness/) - My last post was on Spiritual Friendship and in this one I will be looking at Loneliness, all kinds of loneliness, including Spiritual Loneliness. I found the inspiration for a deep dive into loneliness when a dear client spoke about a bout of loneliness and the shame she feels for being lonely! I’ve certainly had
- [Spiritual Friendship - A New Imagination of St John's Tide](https://imagineself.com/spiritual-friendship-a-new-imagination-of-st-johns-tide/) - From the Holy Encounter found in Pentecost…the perceiving, understanding, and knowing of the other and of the self by the other, we move to St John’s Tide…the season of friendship, deep, essential spiritual friendship. This is the friendship that embraces and cultivates the unique karma and destiny of each friend. In Higher Worlds, Rudolf Steiner
- [The Blessing of Otherness](https://imagineself.com/the-blessing-of-otherness/) - Today, the 7th Sunday after Easter, is the Christian Festival of Pentecost or Whitsun. There are many elements to this festival, perhaps more than any other Holy Day in Christianity. What does each element mean? Not just for the telling of the story, but the meaning to your soul? My thoughts today will center
- [The Karma of a Brief Lifetime](https://imagineself.com/the-karma-of-a-brief-lifetime/) - The Karma of a Brief Lifetime a Wisdom Imagination I’ve been very busy preparing for the program, “Beyond 63.” Beyond 63 will look at the meaning and purpose of our long lives, what lessons we learned in the art of being human, and the evolution of our individuality. The course will explore how we
- [Loving the Corpse](https://imagineself.com/loving-the-corpse/) - Loving the Corpse: The Pieta Experience In this Inner Easter post, I am going to suggest that behind all the Pieta sculptures and paintings is one of the great lessons or initiations or thresholds of inner development. It makes Easter live in your heart of hearts. What I am about to share with you
- [The Tamer and The Vanquisher](https://imagineself.com/the-tamer-and-the-vanquisher/) - It's Ash Wednesday. Many Christians go early to church on Ash Wednesday to have a cross of ashes drawn on their forehead to declare their penitence and mortality. Dust to dust. Here's a brief history of Ash Wednesday. The image of dust-to-dust bothers me because it only addresses one aspect of the human being -
- [Inner Development -- Process, Practice, Perspectives](https://imagineself.com/inner-development-process-practice-perspectives/) - Would it calm you to have a conscious path for your inner development: a process, a practice, and evolving perspectives. Conscious inner development never offers perfection. If you are seeking perfection, you will never experience joy, grace, or miracle. You will never know freedom, love, wisdom, or innocence. Perfection implies judgment, measurement, completion, Inner Development
- [The Seven Steps to Inner Neutrality](https://imagineself.com/the-seven-steps-to-inner-neutrality/) - Inner Neutrality is essential to Your Inner Advent Define neutrality for yourself. What does it mean to be neutral? What does it feel like to be neutral? Here are some thoughts toconsider. Neutralʼs etymology is from Latin neuter ʻneither,ʼ from ne- ʻnotʼ + uter ʻeither.ʼ It implies no desire, no agenda, no attitude, no prejudice, no conditions. Arthur Zajonc, former president
- [You Matter! Yes, You Do!](https://imagineself.com/8270-2/) - "I Matter!" Say this every day at least three times. Out loud! Feet on the Ground! Head High! Shoulders Relaxed! Chest full! Know that today (every day) you matter. You have value. You have significance. You have consequence. You have importance. You have meaning. You have purpose. You are spirit incarnated in the many moments
- [Shaping the Seasons of Your Life](https://imagineself.com/shaping-the-seasons-of-your-life/) - The season is changing. So are you and so am I. Let’s pay creative attention to the changes by imagining them and then shaping clear intentions for how we will move in the flow of time. Planning how your intentions will manifest in time is a spiritual practice. I’ve been slowly(over the last 18 months)
- [A Last Goodbye Inspires a New Imagination](https://imagineself.com/a-last-goodbye-inspires-a-new-imagination/) - She called last night. Her voice was fragile. She hadn’t called me in years, but the bond has always lived in our hearts. She was calling to tell me she was in palliative care with cancer and would soon be crossing the threshold. Shock. Sadness. My heart stopped for a moment, so I could surrender
- [Your Declaration of Neighborly Love](https://imagineself.com/your-declaration-of-neighborly-love/) - I was writing this essay to send out on the 4th of July, Independence Day, but I ended up in the hospital for a couple of days and then had to recover. I am well now, almost. I have rewritten and edited my thoughts on Neighborly Love a couple of times as it addresses the
- [How Was Your Father Like Venus](https://imagineself.com/how-was-your-father-like-venus/) - Yes, I am asking you to think about your father and Venus.You'll see how important this is as you read through this post. Do you want to awaken compassionate imagination about your experience of your father and find peace in seeing into the mysterious purpose of how you were fathered in this life? No matter
- [Mother's Day Imaginations: Compassion & Containment](https://imagineself.com/mothers-day-imaginations-compassion-containment/) - The 4th Holy Night: Feeling Holy Compassion When we go to the Great Threshold and meet with the Gods on this 4th Holy Night, we are transfused with compassion. Why has it taken me 17 years of devotion to the Holy Nights to come to the verb “transfuse”? The Holy Nights are a time
- [Inner Jesus Inner Christ - A New Consciousness of Self](https://imagineself.com/inner-jesus-inner-christ-a-new-consciousness-of-self/) - In this post, I will share my newly imagined thoughts on the inner consciousness of Jesus Christ, an esoteric, unboxable, ever-expanding understanding. What is Christ-Consciousness? If I was to ask 20 people “What is Christ-Consciousness?” I would get 20 different answers ranging from “I don’t know” to a two hour lecture. All answers would
- [Re-Enlivening Democracy](https://imagineself.com/8055-2/) - Something Each of Us Can Do for Our Country, Our World, Our Future The moral challenges and painful divisions of American society in 2020 have been in the making since 1776. We cannot blame any one individual or any one political party or any one or more circumstances. But we can, each of us individually,
- [The Solstice Body](https://imagineself.com/the-solstice-body/) - For the last few weeks, I have been living with a powerful, but undefined image, the Solstice Body. For years, the Christmas Solstice has been important to me. The Invincible Sun…I’ve thought about it and written about it — loving its annual mystery and significance. But until this year, I had never thought of an
- [September's Gifts: Forgiveness & Repentance](https://imagineself.com/7743-2/) - I wrote the draft of this post at 6AM on the First of September 2020 as I was thinking about the September Soul, my September Soul. How do I feel about September? Does September change my thinking? My intentions? My heart? My longings? This is the 73rd September of my life, and the first September I have
- [Beloved Quotes & the Mystery of Translation](https://imagineself.com/7735-2/) - Today, Friday (August 28) is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s birthday (1749-1832). The poet/scientist is the source of many of my beloved quotes. Here are the two at the top of my list: “Human life runs it course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.” “Die and Become.” Goethe's language was German, late
- [August's Mirrors for Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/augusts-mirrors-for-your-soul/) - Photo by Laura Olsen on Unsplash The month begins with clouds. Clouds that couldn’t be more different: the cloud of the atom bomb over Hiroshima and the cloud illuminating the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ. Each of us has in our souls both of these gestures: the most destructive and the most divine. In the heat of August, it
- [The Three Options for Designing Your Relationships](https://imagineself.com/the-three-options-for-designing-your-relationships/) - How would your life change if you understood the three options we have for designing relationships? Would you feel safer, wiser, more willing to love, to receive, to give, to say no, to walk away, to hang in, to transform? Below I share the three options. I am certain you will find each one a
- [July Reflections for Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/july-reflections-for-your-soul/) - Looking at July, I found four major reflections in my soul. All four lit up my soul with a major fireworks display. I spent about 30 minutes writing this newsletter and about 2-3 hours of reflecting on how the four reflections provide self-awareness in my soul. What separates us human beings from the animal
- [Father's & Karma](https://imagineself.com/fathers-karma/) - , It’s Sunday morning, June 21, 2020 as I write this. It’s Father’s Day here in the US. September 25th will be the 100th anniversary of my father’s birth. He died at 86. In the photo, my father, Walter Hewitt, is 30 years old. If I want to move beyond the sentimental attachments and resentments
- [June & Self](https://imagineself.com/june-self/) - , Photo by Jordan McQueen on Unsplash Everything I offer through my counseling, writing, and teaching provides guides, perspectives and prompts for the most challenging aspect of being human…knowing yourself. I look at everything as a potential mirror for self-reflection. One key benefit of this work of self-awareness is the more we know ourselves the
- [Your Pivots and The Art of Pivoting](https://imagineself.com/your-pivots-and-the-art-of-pivoting/) - It's been pouring rain here in North Carolina for several days. POURING...no sun. I spent these wet gray days shining some light on pivots and pivoting and I saw so much. I went looking for an image to bring a visual element to this blog thinking I would use a photo of a ballerina on
- [](https://imagineself.com/7392-2/) - Having grown up in a culture of priesthood, it is often challenging to feel confident in celebrating your own personal sacrament. It may seem very radical and alternative to you. For centuries, we needed a priesthood and the direction of the Church, but clearly, now in the 21st Century, many are feeling the need to free their spiritual lives from religion.
- [SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FOR PERSONAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING](https://imagineself.com/spiritual-exercises-for-personal-and-social-well-being/) - Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash PERSONAL WELL-BEING Several years ago, I was inspired to create this verse to strengthen the etheric body and the astral body. Many have told me they have found it strengthening and healing. Archangels form and overlight group souls and the experience of "we". In the etheric body they form and
- [Liminal Possibilities](https://imagineself.com/liminal-possibilities/) - Below I share my waking thoughts from this morning in poetic form. I am calling it "Between". I also share Lynn Ungar's brilliant poem, "Pandemic" and the Buddha's thoughts on "Better." I've attached all three as pdf's so you can print them out and tape them up in every room to inspire you during these
- [Your Soul's March - Wild Variations and Gentle Blessings](https://imagineself.com/your-souls-march-wild-variations-and-gentle-blessings/) - How does March offer meaning to your soul? Does March make you glad, sad, or mad? Which parts of your soul are the lions and which are the lambs? What roars and what bleats? I looked up the definition of "bleat" and learned it is "a wavering cry." What lives in your soul as a wavering
- [February & Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/february-your-soul/) - How does your soul relate to all things February? I have never explored my inner life in a monthly design. Let’s do it this year! A year of meaningful months! What are the soul qualities we find in each month? Your Seasonal Soul For years, I have thought about and created for the seasonal soul
- [Nuturing Those Who Are Dead](https://imagineself.com/nuturing-those-who-are-dead/) - “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates Imagine dying without examining your life. What does it mean to examine your life? Is it a matter of reviewing the events, accomplishments, and the relationships of your life? Is it about considering your legacy, what you leave behind? Is it about your successes and failures and
- [The Quantum Magic of Prayer Dust](https://imagineself.com/the-quantum-magic-of-prayer-dust/) - Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash The child in me still loves the imagination of fairy dust, a sparkling shower of magical transformation and flowing love from a Fairy. Somehow I got a fairy dust inspiration the other day when I was wondering about prayers as my neighbor had told me she was praying for me when I
- [Your Sovereignty & Your Space](https://imagineself.com/your-sovereignty-your-space/) - Over the next couple of months, I will be writing about the Four Realms of Existence and how we experience ourselves as sovereign in each one. Let me tell you the names of the Four Realms of Existence: The Realm of Space, The Realm of Time, The Realm of Relativity, & The Realm of
- [Sovereignty & Your Self](https://imagineself.com/sovereignty-your-self/) - e Photo by Lars Kuczynski on Unsplash Dear Friends, One month from today, September 29th, is Michaelmas when we bring to our consciousness the qualities of the Archangel Micha-el. I want to suggest a Micha-elic word/experience to contemplate every day for this month: SOVEREIGNTY For the last few weeks I have been wondering about the experience of sovereignty
- [Being Worthy](https://imagineself.com/being-worthy/) - Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash What is the experience of being worthy? Of waking up in the morning feeling worthy of life? In this post I will begin exploring this state of self and invite you to a webinar on Saturday, August 10 at Noon Eastern. In the webinar I will share deep imagination of the
- [Thoughts on My Father and My Needs](https://imagineself.com/thoughts-on-my-father-and-my-needs/) - As I thought about writing a Father’s Day post, I realized I have written so much more about my mother, mothering and other mothers. In Inner Mother Inner Father, an Imagine Self Academy course, I address the inner mother and inner father equally because we need both and I am not being personally biographical
- [See the Birdsong. Hear the Flowers.](https://imagineself.com/6843-2/) - Here is a Springtime spiritual exercise: Take a walk in Nature. Work to see the sounds of birds and hear the colors and forms of flowers. Journal about your experience or write a poem or do a painting. This is a spiritual paradox.
- [A New Easter Imagination: The Only One](https://imagineself.com/an-easter-imaginations-the-only-one/) - One of the great imaginations of Self is the imagination of being “the only one.” This only-one awareness is key to fulfilling the admonition “O Human Soul, Know Thyself!” And knowing what we experience and mean when we say “I.” “The Only One” experience is not narcissistic or egotistic. It is a path of inner
- [On Receiving the Light](https://imagineself.com/on-receiving-the-light/) - Spring is here! Are you willing to receive the light? “Receive the Light!” is the admonition for Spring given by Rudolf Steiner. It is exquisite grace to see how our souls and nature move together. Every year we are blessed with a season where our focus is on receiving light in nature and Light
- [New Year, New Beginning](https://imagineself.com/new-year-new-beginning/) - 2019 has begun. The Year is new. What in me is beginning? What in me is new? The operative word is IN. In my soul, what is beginning? In my soul, what is new? What lives in the soul of a 71 year old woman that can begin? That is new?
- [The Art & Practice of Forgiving Every Day](https://imagineself.com/the-art-practice-of-forgiving-every-day/) - Reflections on Moral Breathing My thoughts on the three inner evening activities, celebrating, grieving and forgiving are evolving and expanding. I have written about each soul activity a number of times in the past always asking myself many questions, working from many perspectives but I never put the three of them together. Together they are a moral
- [Mother's Day: 12 Questions Full of Meaning](https://imagineself.com/mothers-day-12-questions-full-of-meaning/) - I am not sentimental as Mother’s Day approaches either about my mother or myself as mother (or grandmother.) I want meaning around my mother, truth and forgiveness from my children and drawings from my grandchildren. It's the meaning around my relationship with my mother that I will be contemplating on Mother's Day. I will do
- [Red Nose Wisdom & the Mysteries of Not Belonging](https://imagineself.com/red-nose-wisdom/) - I've been singing Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer my whole life, but it was just a few weeks ago that I realized the real meaning of the song and how connected I am to Rudolph and his red nose. Here are the lyrics and below I've written some red nose wisdom about the mysteries of not
- [Leftovers and the Soul](https://imagineself.com/leftovers-and-the-soul/) - Thanksgiving Leftovers Part of my growing edge and what I love about my work is waiting for my inspirations - the topics for a post that link the providing with the promoting. In the middle of last night, I woke up with today's topic - Leftovers. I find behind all cultural and personal habits and
- [Feeling Blessed and Full of Grace](https://imagineself.com/feeling-blessed-and-full-of-grace-2/) - March 25, 2011 At the beginning of the week, my inbox was full of beautiful writings about the Vernal Equinox, Ostara, and Spring and I had thought about offering my own thoughts on the new season. The Annunciation But a few weeks ago, as the Cherry Plums began to bloom here in
- [A Thoughtful 4th of July](https://imagineself.com/a-thoughtful-4th-of-july/) - LIBERTY, INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOMoriginally published in Foursquare Conversations Newsletterwritten by Lynn Jericho and Bethene LeMahieuJuly, 2004 Note: I really love the ideas Bethene and I discovered in our conversations on Liberty, Independence and Freedom over four years ago. I hope you find them worth living and celebrating. Our conversation was inspired by the election
- [The 3 R's of Your Soul - Receiving](https://imagineself.com/the-3-rs-of-your-soul-receiving/) - If we have found some empowering clarity around refusing and feel comfortable saying "NO" to what we don't want, it is time to plunge into the mysteries of receiving. Receiving is a two pronged action: to be presented with something and to accept what is presented. The first prong is passive and the other active.
- [The Nine Contexts of Your Outer Life](https://imagineself.com/control-and-freedom/) - Imagine having control and freedom in the nine contexts of your outer life. Now is the time for attending to the control and freedom of your outer life. I have just started working with a trainer at a local gym. 30 minutes twice a week. One session on my lower body and one on my
- [Remembering and Connecting with the Dead](https://imagineself.com/remembering-connecting-dead/) - Do you remember your dead or are you connecting with them? There's a difference. Think about those two verbs “remember” and “connect.” Now choose an important person in your life who has died and remember them for a minute or two then spend a few minutes connecting with them. What difference did you experience? This week is
- [Your Inner Autumn Manifesto](https://imagineself.com/your-inner-autumn-manifesto/) - An Inner Manifesto There is nothing in your inner life that wouldn't benefit from you writing an inner manifesto. A inner manifesto is a declaration of commitment to inner development. It brings together your thoughts and your feelings and points you in a direction of actions that are personally, morally and spiritually meaningful. You make
- [Discerning Dragons on Michaelmas](https://imagineself.com/discerning-dragons-michaelmas/) - It was September, 1986 that I was introduced to the festival of Michaelmas. I had enrolled my daughter in the first class of the fledgling Waldorf School of Princeton and at the end of the first month of school there was a Saturday gathering around a dragon and a dragon slayer. 28 years later and
- [Courage, Calmness and Clarity: The Three Gifts of Micha-el](https://imagineself.com/courage-calmness-and-clarity-the-three-gifts-of-michael/) - Christianity, Islam, and Judaism revere the Archangel Micha-el as the great protector of humankind and Western Christianity celebrates the archangel on September 29, Michaelmas. But there is much more to the archangel than the role of protector. This being also carries the scales of balanced judgment and offers rays of the sun to illuminate the darkness
- [Michaelmas - The Soul's Season of Dragons and Courage](https://imagineself.com/michaelmas-the-souls-season-of-dragons-and-courage-2/) - Michaelmas is September 29th and in the Christian liturgical year reflects the Equinox in the natural cycle of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere it is the beginning of Autumn and the overcoming of light by darkness. Our soul's natural task at this time of year relates to the inner experience of the struggle between
- [The Sense of Smell](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-smell-2/) - We perceive over 10000 different odors and an seemingly infinite number of combinations. And with each breath we smell the scent combinations of whatever is around us. Though we don’t notice all the smells, we are making decisions about them all the time. Decisions beyond like and dislike. We assess the health and safety of
- [The Sense of Thought](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-thought-2/) - The Sense of Thought or MeaningLike the word sense, the sense of thought is difficult to describe and imagine. I struggled to write this and suspect you will struggle to make sense of it all. The three “highest” senses of word, thought and "I" are so beyond our ordinary thinking.Last week we attempted to think
- [The Sense of Ego](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-ego-2/) - The Sense of EgoOf the four mysterious senses of Love, hearing, word, thought and Ego, the Ego sense is the most subtly exquisite (ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [carefully ascertained, precise] ): from Latin exquisit- ‘sought out,’ from the verb exquirere, from ex- ‘out’ + quaerere ‘seek.)With this sense we perceive the eternal
- [Sense of Self-Movement](https://imagineself.com/sense-of-self-movement-2/) - It seems intelligent to give you the brief dictionary definition of the sense of self-movement. There are two words that relate to self-movement:Proprioception from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception, is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body.Kinesthesia from Greek, kinesis, motion, aisthesis, feeling1. The sense that detects bodily
- [The Sense of Balance](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-balance-2/) - Balance lets us sway in many directions and never fall. Through balance we maintain our uprightness. No matter how much we sway in any direction we can return to our standpoint, head held high, ready to focus on what is important, find our center between two opposing forces or infinite possibilities. We are not dizzy
- [The Sense of Taste](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-taste-2/) - How does your soul savour life? Or what in your life does your soul savour? I love food. It so delights my senses with smells, textures, flavors, colors, and shapes. But now I am feeling seduced by my senses because inner maturity wakes me up to the reality that what I eat needs to delight
- [The Sense of Vison](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-vison-2/) - Dear Friend, The richness and complexity of the vision of vision in our souls is astounding and wonderful. I am writing this during the lunch break at a conference on The Search for Humanity in Contemporary Art, so I have a list of visual thoughts in my notebook from listening to the presentations.The phrase that stands
- [The Sense of Word](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-word-2/) - The Sense of WordI was with my grandson for a month, a very vocal month. For a couple of weeks, as he turned six months old, he was delighting in the sounds he could make. From grunts to squeals he was learning how to master the range of his voicebox. On the last day he
- [The Sense of Hearing](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-hearing-2/) - I want to begin with saying what the sense of hearing is not! It is not the perception of words or ideas. Hearing is just the perception of sound waves, acoustic events. In this message I want to share with you four distinctions I find through my hearing sense. If I confused hearing with the
- [The Sense of Warmth](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-warmth-2/) - When you touch something you are thrown back into yourself, but you are accompanied by something of the other - the warmth (or coolness) of the other. I experience myself through touch whether I am touching a rock, the bath water, a book, the keys on my computer, or my grandson’s sweet cheeks. But I
- [The Sense of Well-Being](https://imagineself.com/the-sense-of-well-being-2/) - Once we incarnate into our sense of touch, through which we experience the resistance of something else and the reality of our own boundary, and we find ourselves thrown back into our own center, we move to the perception of “the existence within” our skin. What exists within our skin is our life, our biological
- [Anxiety and the Twelve Senses](https://imagineself.com/anxiety-and-the-twelve-senses-2/) - We live in the age of anxiety and our challenge is the transformation of personal anxiety into personal confidence.Anxiety arises out of a feeling of a gap. A gap is a break in continuity that asks for restoration. It is a hole or interval between you and what you desire that must be bridged. It
- [The Natural You at Summer](https://imagineself.com/the-natural-you-at-summer-2/) - Summer is the time of light. Spring is the growing of light but summer is the celebration of light. And in the celebrating we overlook that the light has begun to diminish.St. John’s Tide comes three days after the Summer Solstice. It is the day that the light begins it’s diminishing. When did you reach
- [The Summer Flow of Self](https://imagineself.com/the-summer-flow-of-self/) - On a hot summer day, the thought of diving into a secret shaded cooling pool of water feels so freeing as the still summer heat fights the flow of life and discourages inner and outer activity and vitality. Sometimes I feel like my inner life is hot, sticky, breathless and unmoving. I need thoughts that
- [The Mysteries of Balance](https://imagineself.com/the-mysteries-of-balance-2/) - A harmonious life is a life of balance. Harmony and balance are feelings, not things! All feelings are experiences belonging to an individual in momentary experiences. However, following our feelings and engaging in objective and compassionate perspective on our lives, our goals and our difficulties, we can design, establish and celebrate our own balanced lives.
- [Sweet Sleep](https://imagineself.com/sweet-sleep/) - Ideally, one-third of our lives, 8 hours out of every 24, are spent sleeping. Insomnia, the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep is a huge challenge for many of us. This post is all about getting sweet sleep.Sleep is not just physically restorative, it is spiritually restorative. Sleep is the time the body heals,
- [Healing as a Threat - The Auto-immune Disorder of the Soul](https://imagineself.com/healing-as-threat-the-auto-immune-disorder-of-the-soul/) - For the last year I have been working with a dilemma - the client obsessed with the healing process who never heals. Some of these individuals find one healer and work with them forever even when the work does not lead to any lasting benefit. Others engage with a vast variety of healers and therapies
- [Your Unfettered Soul](https://imagineself.com/your-unfettered-soul/) - So I am often fettered by a chaotic mess of old memories, crippling identities, will-deadening doubts.
- [Through Your Life's Looking Glass Teleworkshop](https://imagineself.com/through-your-lifes-looking-glass-teleworkshop/) - What is biography work? It is a creative study of your life - how you have come to be who you are today. It is done with a group so that each participant's life reflections can inspire the others. The work follows the archetypal phases and themes of human development.
- [Saying Goodbye to Your Year - Inner Advent](https://imagineself.com/saying-goodbye-to-your-year-inner-advent/) - It’s November. The year is about to be over...done...finished...gone. How do you say goodbye to 2021? How do you discover the inner meaning of 2021? How do you prepare for 2022? Each year you evolve. You become something you weren’t last year. Some of your evolution is intentional and some is unintentional. But if you
- [The Art and Practice of Everyday Grieving](https://imagineself.com/the-art-and-practice-of-everyday-grieving/) - In the previous post I wrote about celebration and a good friend sent me this wonderful quote on the importance of celebration from Terry Tempest Williams. “Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through
- [The Art and Practice of Everyday Celebration](https://imagineself.com/the-art-and-practice-of-everyday-celebration/) - Celebration honors! It is a form of recollection, review and release of moments in our life experience. In this blog I offer suggestions on the art and .practice of Celebration. What Do We Celebrate? The celebrations can honor an experience of nature, cosmos, the divine, sensory delight, relationships, memories, or self-development. You can celebrate your
- [Are You In a Strange & Lonely Place?](https://imagineself.com/strange-lonely-place/) - Are you in a Strange and Lonely Place? Is your Soul longing for an Inner Lent, a way to recognize, name and struggle with your temptations? Overcome the beasts of your inner wilderness.​​​​​​​ In the Christian Calendar of worship, we are just over a week into the Season of Lent. But in our souls, Inner Lent comes
- [Thoughts on Love & Temptation](https://imagineself.com/thoughts-love-temptation/) - It is so perfect that this year as we are facing the drama and moral complexity of sexual harassment and abuse, Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday are on the same day for the first time since 1945. Hearts and ashes come together challenging us to think, not just react, and to communicate about the questions of
- [A Rough Night](https://imagineself.com/a-rough-night/) - I was suddenly almost awake. My body was demanding consciousness through vague discomforts. My shoulder, my wrist, my left hip all needed me to move. My body then wanted to have a conversation with my soul. “Aren’t you uncomfortable, too?” My physical discomfort wanted company. Immediately my soul searched for its own discomfort. “Yes, I
- [What is Comfort?](https://imagineself.com/what-is-comfort/) - This essay is 1400 words. It will take about 5-6 minutes to read and much more time to think about. If you bring sufficient attention to it, you will find ways of understanding and establishing elements of comfort that you have never known before. I also hope you will realize that the Enlivening the Twelve
- [My Sneakers & My Soul](https://imagineself.com/my-sneakers-my-soul/) - What do sneakers have to do with the soul? A lot when we think of the body/soul connection. My sneakers have a lot to do with how my soul meets life, stands up, moves forward and feels comfortable. The Real Impact of Sneakers on My Soul I just got a new pair of sneakers. They fit
- [The Surrounding Presence of Spiritual Companions](https://imagineself.com/surrounding-presence-spiritual-companions/) - As I grow older I become more aware how important relationships and the conversations that provide the substance of these relationships are. Of all these relationships and conversations, the most meaningful are often the ones we have with the beings we cannot perceive with our ordinary senses. They are a surrounding presence of spiritual companions overflowing
- [Bow & Take Three Steps Back for Michaelmas](https://imagineself.com/bow-take-three-steps-back/) - Bow and take three steps back. In this Imagine Self blogpost, I share how these two actions taken inwardly bring freedom and love into the most difficult situations. What is the problem? Your child’s behavior? Your partner? Your weight? Being stuck in traffic? Your lack of success? The state of the world? Bow and take three steps
- [Remembering Mercy](https://imagineself.com/remembering-mercy/) - What will you remember at the end of the day...at the end of your life? Life as a passion. Life as a pleasure. Life as a satisfaction. OR Life as a contribution. Life as an impact. Life as mercy. I just spent time with my 97 year old aunt. She is my godmother and I
- [The Mantra of Life](https://imagineself.com/6081/) - I have a little poster I made and taped to my closet door where I can see it when I open my eyes in the morning. I call it the Mantra of Life. It says... I am safe. I am calm. I am awake. I am nourished. I am Freedom. I am overflowing with Light.
- [Fix Me! Teach Me! Wake Me!](https://imagineself.com/fix-me-teach-me-wake-me/) - I have been professionally offering sacred conversations for 18 years now. I've been able to assist and witness many individuals as they discover, navigate, and integrate their life experiences, their sufferings, their agonizing questions, their truth-telling, their complexity, their need to love and be loved, their need for spiritual meaning and practical living and much
- [Imagining Your BADASS Self](https://imagineself.com/badass-self/) - Yes, badass! What does this word mean in the context of Imagine Self? What does badass have to do with the soul? With spirituality? With the feminine? This notion of the badass soul was inspired by a friend who is celebrating a new phase of her life. She is giving herself permission to be just who
- [What makes you happy?](https://imagineself.com/what-makes-you-happy/) - What is happiness? What makes you happy? It’s Springtime and I am thinking about happiness. A happiness that is both personal and archetypal. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and Autumn has just arrived, happiness may not be in the air, but I am sure it is in your heart. Nature seems happy. The
- [A New Lent](https://imagineself.com/a-new-lent/) - It's 2017 and the whole world feels like a wilderness where our souls find no practical, moral or spiritual nourishment. What if we see this as a fasting that prepares us for the deed of transforming the future? Would this be a new Lent? Has the Holy Spirit taken us to this strange and lonely
- [Lyrics, Nature and My Soul](https://imagineself.com/lyrics/) - A few days ago, a local non-profit sent out an announcement of an essay contest on Ecofeminism and the intertwining of nature and personal spirituality. I didn't have time to write an essay, but I was inspired. Suddenly, I was thinking about song lyrics, nature and the suffering of my soul before I turned 21.
- [Before the Love Story](https://imagineself.com/before-the-love-story/) - I’ve been wondering about love my whole life. I am just coming to the recognition that I have focused on love story, not love. Love is not a story. Romance is a story. Love is not adding something to your life or subtracting. For Valentine’s Day, I want to ask you to spend a few
- [The Most Intimate Gift](https://imagineself.com/the-most-intimate-gift/) - What could be a more intimate gift than a gift you give your soul? What does the self give the self? If your soul were to make a list of gifts it wants/needs/deserves from you over the year what would be on that list? If your soul made a list of gifts it wants from your
- [Christmas Never Changes...Do You?](https://imagineself.com/christmas-never-changes/) - My daughter just came by with a stack of presents for her children. We will wrap them together Monday afternoon. I’ve ordered the plum pudding for the plum pudding trifle we have every Christmas. Too yummy for words and so easy. I’ve posted the recipe at the bottom of this message. Did you know that
- [Signals In Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/signals-in-your-soul/) - How will you enter and experience the Holy Nights? How will you let go of the noise and experience the signal in your soul? Noise and signal are scientific terms for the ratio between clear signal bearing important information and the background of distracting, distorting and unwanted noise. In spiritual seeking and striving, we can
- [A Sweet Celebratory Exhale & A Kind Forgiving Sigh](https://imagineself.com/sweet-celebratory-exhale-kind-forgiving-sigh/) - Thanksgiving is over and your soul is now ready to enter into the mood of Advent. For me, for my soul, Advent is a mood that is complex, sometimes confusing. My Advent mood is full of contradiction like anticipation and reflection, sadness and happiness, bleakness and richness, silence and trumpets, stillness and urgency. I want to
- [A New Inner Advent - The Path through the Darkness](https://imagineself.com/new-inner-advent-path-darkness/) - This time of the soul's year is Inner Advent. Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas (November 27th) and in Christian Churches each Sunday is a preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus. Inner Advent is a preparation for the new birth of self, a renewal of creative innocence and the arrival
- [Support for Difficult Times](https://imagineself.com/support-difficult-times/) - Are you distressed with the outcome of the presidential election. I am. I just finished responding to a question about the Inner Christmas Messages and I was led to think about last year's theme of Twelve Acts of Kindness. With my response to the results of the election, I knew I needed kindness to fill my souls,
- [A Song of Great Questions](https://imagineself.com/a-song-of-great-questions/) - A psalm is a song. When I was a child, I loved Sunday School. I didn’t attend regularly as neither of my parents were religious in an organized or belonging way. What did I love? I loved the images…not images I believed or obeyed, but images that asked me questions, that took me on long
- [Designing a Conscious Soul Quest](https://imagineself.com/designing-a-conscious-soul-quest/) - How do you design a soul quest? Certain words inspire my soul. Quest, like imagine, resides near the top of my "words that inspire list." The inspire me to do. to undertake! In this post I am going to give you some guidance on imagining, preparing and undertaking a soul quest. A Conscious Soul Quest
- [Inner Equilibrium: Thoughts on the Equinox](https://imagineself.com/inner-equilibrium/) - Equilibrium is a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced. Today is the Equinox and the opposing forces of day and night, light and dark are balanced for a moment. It seems like a perfect day to reflect on equilibrium. I don’t think human beings were designed to experience sustained equilibrium. We seem
- [Your 13 Page Turns](https://imagineself.com/your-13-page-turns/) - The archetypal children’s picture book stories contain 13 page turns (excluding the front and back matter). What if we imagine 13 page turns in all the different stories of our lives, our careers, our important relationships, our inner development? What was happening while the page was turning? I have written a children’s picture book (a
- [Your Impact On A Violent World](https://imagineself.com/your-impact-on-a-violent-world/) - Are you a good world citizen? What does good mean to you? What does it mean to be a citizen? What is your world? What is the evidence that you are this good world citizen…and I don’t care how small or intimate or grand and universal your world is. I just want to know about
- [Some thoughts on Evil...](https://imagineself.com/some-thoughts-on-evil-2/) - Some thoughts on evil... (This is a long one.) It is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. A good day to think about evil. We need to begin to think maturely about evil, to form a conscious and active relationship to evil. Given that as small children we were not allowed to touch, hear, taste,
- [Control & Freedom in the Contexts of Your Life](https://imagineself.com/the-contexts-of-your-life/) - . It is ironic that the more you can control your life the more freedom you find in living it. This post offers a 4th of July exercise for finding both control and freedom in every context of your life. Sometimes control seems impossible, but if we break life into distinct contexts and actively think
- [Soultides and Sacred Conversations](https://imagineself.com/soultides-and-sacred-conversations-2/) - Soultides (Yes, soultide is an anagram of solitude and an understanding of soultides makes our solitudes much richer.) The Inner Year is a recognition of the tides of soul. What is a tide? A tide is an alternate rising and falling of seas. A tide is a surge of feeling. What is a soultide? A
- [Solid...Useful...Delightful](https://imagineself.com/solid-useful-delightful/) - I want YOUR reality (and remember the use of any possessive pronoun makes the meaning of the noun subjective, not objective!) to be solid...useful...delightful. I want you to own your reality and celebrate its subjectivity. This is why I created the online course: The Three Shapers of Your Reality and why I want you to take
- [A Powerful Imagination for Releasing Stress](https://imagineself.com/powerful-imagination-releasing-stress/) - This afternoon I am attending a memorial for my friend Linda, who crossed the threshold of death on Monday. She was a wonderful individual who suffered from the extreme stress of bipolar disorder. This post is dedicated to her indomitable spirit. The allostatic load is "the wear and tear on the body" which grows over time
- [An Inner Easter Gift](https://imagineself.com/inner-easter-gift/) - I have compiled all my Inner Easter Blogs from the past years into a beautiful pdf: Imagining Your Inner Easter. Click here to download your gift: Imagining Your Inner Easter Download 28 pages to inspire your inner work over Easter this year and every year. I offer thoughts to support your reflections on Maundy
- [What’s a perfect day? or How to get a great night’s rest!](https://imagineself.com/5342/) - Most of us think if we don’t get a great night’s sleep we cannot have a great day. I’ve learned to think the other way: If I don’t have a great day, I won’t have a great night’s sleep. So the question I will focus on in this post works with the elements of
- [Suffering, Disappointment, Loneliness: Don't be Tempted!](https://imagineself.com/dont-be-tempted/) - We are more than a week into the seven weeks of the Lenten Season. How is your inner work approaching the amazing strength that comes with vanquishing temptations? Could Inner Lent help your soul? I offered Inner Lent for the first time in 2009. For seven years, this course has been the way I, personally,
- [How to Recognize Your Thresholds](https://imagineself.com/how-to-recognize-your-thresholds/) - (Hi Friends, This is a long post because it is a very important subject. It explains a lot about our journey of inner development and the thresholds that we must reach, cross and surrender to. No way to do it short and sweet. Read on. Lynn) Threshold … the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded
- [Halloween Thoughts on Hallowed Fears](https://imagineself.com/halloween-thoughts-on-hallowed-fears/) - Hallowed means holy, revered, sacred. Halloween means candy, costumes, spooks and skeletons. The sweet and the scary. In this post I am sharing four core fears that shape my soul like my skeleton shapes my body. They are scary, sweet and sacred to me. They are my hallowed fears. The fear of dying without knowing
- [Michaelmas and Continuous Improvement](https://imagineself.com/michaelmas-and-continuous-improvement-2/) - Archangel Michael's gesture is recognized and attended to each year on September 29th. Michael carries the sword that points to, penetrates, and slays evil. The great works of art in sculpture and painting are always dramatic and active. In the course of the Inner Year, now is the time to focus on evil. We want
- [But my world is still unpredictable...](https://imagineself.com/but-my-world-is-still-unpredictable/) - But my world is still unpredictable And still I survive By the grace of chance And The strength of my choices This is my rewrite of the closing sentence of a chapter called “Choices” from an exquisite book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses written by Robin Wall Kimmerer (More on
- [Seven Questions to Ask Yourself](https://imagineself.com/seven-questions/) - Click here to receive a pdf. of the Seven Questions to download. Lately, I have been thinking about the questions we can ask ourselves. Not random questions arising out of a quandry, need or doubt of the moment, but a set of questions to work with in a weekly or monthly practice. The questions will remain
- [The Mysteries of Mantra](https://imagineself.com/the-mysteries-of-mantra/) - Because of my own response and the response of my clients to the mantra I share at the end of this post, I've spent some time contemplating and researching the experience and purpose of a mantra. Through this attention I have deepened my relationship and understanding of the mysteries of mantra and the role they
- [Declare your inner independence](https://imagineself.com/declare-your-inner-independence/) - 4th of July celebrates the birth of independence here in America and the beginning of a revolution, a great rebellion. If you could confidently declare your independence…if you could powerfully revolt…if you could successfully rebel and free yourself from a foreign domination, an excessive duty, and an unnecessary dependency, would you? Do you see how these
- [St. John's Tide - Loving the Other](https://imagineself.com/st-johns-tide-loving-the-other-2/) - Dear Friends, On June 24th, the birth of John the Baptist is celebrated. It is called St. John's Tide and is celebrated with bonfires all over the world. I seek to share with you an understanding of the personal meaning and personal application of the gesture of John the Baptist. John's life is given great
- [Love in All its Forms](https://imagineself.com/love-in-all-its-forms/) - The Greeks gave us six distinctions or forms of love and relating to others. I find it significant that these are not just feelings, they are activities, ways of actively relating to another. If we want to know ourselves, we must observe who we love and how we love them. We must look, too, at
- [What Escapes Your Notice?](https://imagineself.com/what-escapes-your-notice/) - Usually it is what is right before you that you fail to notice. It escapes you. "Nothing escaped his notice: attention, observation, awareness, consciousness, perception; regard, consideration, scrutiny; watchfulness, vigilance, attentiveness" from a Thesaurus. Notice finds its root in the Latin. Notus means knowledge. You take notice in order to know. You become what you
- [Sleep on it! Why?](https://imagineself.com/sleep-on-it-why/) - SLEEP ON IT! We all know the truth of the benefit of a night’s sleep to making a decision or getting a clearer perspective on a question or a concern. Why does this work? How can we actively use the mystery of sleep to live richer lives? Here are some of my thoughts. THE MYSTERY
- [The Thrilling Challenge of Self-Parenting](https://imagineself.com/4926/) - Today, May 20, 2015 is the 71st anniversary of my parents’ wedding day. They didn't know how to parent me or themselves. This post is dedicated to them with love from the unparented parts of myself. May 10th was Mother’s Day here in the States, the time for cards, flowers, expressions of love and gratitude
- [On Having an Ugly Duckling Day](https://imagineself.com/on-having-an-ugly-duckling-day/) - Today was an ugly duckling day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Duckling I felt out of sync and awkward in my will. I felt I didn’t fit in or belong to my work goals. I couldn’t find the truth of myself in my deeds. No matter what I did, it wasn’t the right thing, my thing, to be doing. I
- [Maundy Thursday - the Inner Challenge](https://imagineself.com/maundy-thursday-the-inner-challenge/) - I find the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday the most complex, multi-layered, almost incomprehensible of Holy Days in the Christian Year. It overwhelms me as I experience myself within the Easter context. Last year I committed to considering the inner experience of each day, one event at a time
- [On a Mother's Grief: The 4 Ways & the 8 Comforts](https://imagineself.com/on-a-mothers-grief/) - This post is not a planned post, not one that I was thinking about writing. The post was a sudden surprise; waking up in the morning and just starting to write. I had been contemplating the Stations of the Cross by Giotto from the 14th Century in preparation for Inner Easter. Giotto is known for being the
- [Inner Easter - Your Inner Crucifixion](https://imagineself.com/inner-easter-your-inner-crucifixion-2/) - If you read this post you will have spent 15-17 minutes of the 1440 minutes in the day on my thoughts on Inner Good Friday. Now add to that the time you spend on your thoughts on both the originating Good Friday and your own Inner Crucifixion. How many minutes might that total? And what
- [The Upper Room -- Maundy Thursday](https://imagineself.com/maundy-thursday/) - The Last Supper, Gethsemane, and the Betrayal all take place on the first night of Passover between sunset and sunrise. Maundy Thursday asks us to enter the moods of the night — of darkness, loneliness and doubt. This is not easy to do, but easier than the mood of Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Can
- [Inner Easter](https://imagineself.com/inner-easter/) - Is it Universal? Beyond Christianity? How does Easter live in your heart each year? What is its meaning for you? How do you celebrate this holy time and holy story? I ask this question of all my readers, whether you are Christian or not. The Inner Year looks to the Christian Year (not the Christian
- [Working with the Inner Festivals](https://imagineself.com/working-with-the-inner-festivals-2/) - Working with the Inner Festivals On February 25, Lent begins. Lent is the Christian festival that remembers the forty days, Jesus Christ spends in the wilderness following the Baptism in the River Jordan. During this time, Christ does not eat, is ministered to by angels, meets wild beasts and is tempted three times by Satan.
- [A Cosmic Leap...A Joyful Dance](https://imagineself.com/cosmic-leap-joyful-dance/) - Do not sign up for Core Imaginations lightly, but do not dismiss Core Imaginations lightly, either. Core Imaginations is a leap into the mysterious depths of pure selfhood, the holy solitude where you belong to no one but yourself. It where you choreograph your own sacred dance. Core Imaginations brings harmony and humor, irony and delight
- [Lenten Questions for Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/lenten-questions-soul/) - Lent comes every year. But Lent is not the same every year. Nor is Lent the same for everyone. Lent gives us certain universal questions and a season to work with the questions. Can I do without? Can I vanquish temptation? Each Lent we have the opportunity to work with what, how and why. What
- [Love and a Closet Full of Shirts](https://imagineself.com/4642/) - We are at a time of year that draws our attention to love. This is the time that focuses on Valentine’s Day. It is actually “Saint Valentines’s Day”, but the Saint has been dropped for the sake of pleasure and profit. So I am going to attempt to nudge some of the sacred back into
- [Stillness & Emptiness -- A Solstice Imagination](https://imagineself.com/stillness-emptiness-solstice-imagination/) - In the next few hours we will experience the Solstice in the outer world. In the calendar of the soul we can imagine surrendering to the three days of soul stillness and emptiness that fall between the release of the old inner year and the beginning of the new inner year. This is roughly the
- [Imagining Your Soul Feast Days](https://imagineself.com/feast-days/) - Feast Days are present in all sacred traditions. A Feast Day is a day in the year dedicated to the celebration of a particular person, event, quality, thought, feeling or activity. It is a feast for the soul, an opportunity to raise, deepen and broaden consciousness. Perhaps, even to heal, liberate and empower consciousness. Soul Feast
- [Ambiguous Loss & Frozen Grief](https://imagineself.com/ambiguous-loss-frozen-grief/) - Freedom in Naming I read these two phrases, ambiguous loss and frozen grief, in a recent article in the AARP magazine and felt a part of my soul had found a name. I speak and write often about the importance of naming. All our feelings need a name. If we can't give them their true name, we
- [Fast Lanes, Traffic Jams, Parking Valets](https://imagineself.com/fast-lanes-traffic-jams-parking-valets/) - Getting Somewhere in Good Time I am going somewhere and I’m excited. And I am finally wise enough to know I will get there in good time. “Good time” is not “on time.” “Good time” indicates the process and the journey were successful. “On time” is an expectation and a commitment that places value in meeting
- [Time for Yourself](https://imagineself.com/time/) - Time for myself. It just took me a couple of seconds to type those three little words for a great big thought, a huge longing, and a very complex set of possibilities. What do I want “time for myself” for? What is the longing for and what are the possibilities about? It’s been about
- [Cultivation - the transforming fire of relationship](https://imagineself.com/cultivation-transforming-fire-relationship/) - Your Cultivators Certain "others" have come into my life with a set of gardening tools. They are the gardeners of my life. Our relationships live in the fiery activity of cultivation. They have a hoe that breaks up the stuck and hard soil of the past. They have a spade that digs a hole in
- [Existential Equanimity, Existential Love, Existential Fear](https://imagineself.com/existential-equanimity-existential-love-existential-fear/) - I have always referred to inner equanimity, thinking of equanimity as an inner quality of being or state of consciousness. Composed, balanced, smooth, vital, and elegant, but a recent comment on the webinar I gave on July 2 has evolved my sense of equanimity. The equanimity that I intend to imagine and begin to embody
- [Greatness of Soul](https://imagineself.com/greatness-soul/) - The future is going to require greatness of soul from each of us. And the future starts now! You feel it , don't you? Things are changing. Most think the change is a relentless slide into darkness, but I would say that is just the view from the weakness of soul, from those fearing the
- [Conversation - the Breath & Dance of Relationship](https://imagineself.com/conversation-breath-dance-relationship/) - We live in a time of endless interactions and few conversations. Twitter, Facebook, etc. are full of interactions that are rooted in connection and often caring, but not conversations. They don’t enliven like breathe and there is no dance of real engagement and partnering. Conversation depends on air - the breath - and the out-breathing
- [Caring - the Life Water of Relationship](https://imagineself.com/caring-life-water-relationship/) - I've shared my thoughts and questions on connection, the ground of relationship. Today, I want to contemplate caring as the water of relationship...the blood of relationship. To care about is To attach importance to another's existence. To experience another's body, soul and spirit with tender attention and awareness To think of, feel about, and act
- [Connection - The Ground of Relationship](https://imagineself.com/connection-ground-relationship/) - In my last post I wrote about the four active elements of community: connection caring conversation cultivation The order is intentional. First you connect, then you begin to care, then you have real conversations, and finally you find the gift of cultivation. I am going to write a post about each active element. Most of
- [Resurrection - Your Inner Easter Quest](https://imagineself.com/resurrection-inner-easter-quest/) - I wish I could say I have a glimmer of understanding or feeling of resurrection. I have a belief in the Resurrection, but not an experience of it. Perhaps that is why we retell the story of Easter every year. Would we need to tell it, if we had the inner deed alive in our
- [Holy Saturday - Your Inner Easter Quest](https://imagineself.com/holy-saturday-inner-easter-quest/) - Welcome to Hades, to Hell, to the Burning, Isolating Sea of No Redemption. Is this a familiar place for you? It is for me, especially in the middle of a sleepless night. The Entombment How do you inwardly bury yourself or parts of yourself? Just choose one of your entombed parts…there are probably many. Is
- [Good Friday - Your Inner Easter Quest](https://imagineself.com/good-friday-inner-easter-quest/) - I tremble at the realization that as I write these four Inner Easter posts, I am asking each of us to find our solitary way into a consciousness of unbearable feeling — even the joy of resurrection, if truly felt, is too intense for full consciousness. I am not suggesting that we not live into
- [Maundy Thursday - Your Inner Easter Quest](https://imagineself.com/maundy-thursday-2/) - Inner Easter is the process of finding, knowing, and becoming yourself through an intimate feeling of the Easter Mysteries as they unfold between Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday. Each of the four days, I will send a message with a list of most, not all, of the events of each day with a suggestion of how
- [Good Friday - The Inner Challenge](https://imagineself.com/good-friday-the-inner-challenge/) - I tremble at the realization that as I write these four Inner Easter posts, I am asking each of us to find our solitary way into a consciousness of unbearable feeling — even the joy of resurrection, if truly felt, is too intense for full consciousness. I am not suggesting that we not live into
- [The Meaning of Community](https://imagineself.com/meaning-community/) - Imagining Relationship - the Focus of the Soul in Springtime For over five years I have been exploring, imagining, researching the seasons of nature and the seasons of the soul. I look at the way nature works, nurtures life and death, silence and song, storms and sunny sweetness, the magic of dusk and dawn,
- [The Mystery of Surrender - Thoughts on the Annunciation 2014](https://imagineself.com/mystery-surrender-thoughts-annunciation/) - A Festival Imagination The Mood of the Annunciation 2014 I had a woman client who asked me if it was possible to be both strong and soft. What a wonderful question about the mysteries of the feminine. I told her to think of a curve. A straight line has a rigidity that feels
- [A Jot of Wisdom...A New You](https://imagineself.com/jot-wisdom-new/) - It only takes a jot of wisdom to transform your sense of self. A jot is an extremely small amount and comes from the Greek word iota which is the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet. It looks just like the smallest letter in our alphabet, I. When you sign up for a course, buy a book,
- [Loving Yourself Alone](https://imagineself.com/3391/) - Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. William Butler Yeats Ann Gregory What is your “yellow hair”? All the things you love about yourself because they meet your personal ideal. Can you imagine loving all of you - yourself alone? Not just the special, yellow hair, parts
- [Beyond Remembering](https://imagineself.com/beyond-remembering/) - I participated in a thoughtful gathering to remember the dead on Saturday. We lit candles, shared music and food. The room began to warm with the presence of the dead souls. After about 20 minutes of listening to others speak about “their” dead, I was finding so many souls who had left this life (some
- [The Three Great Images of Self and the 2014 Curriculum](https://imagineself.com/three-great-images-self-2014-curriculum/) - Sunday night I attended the birth of my granddaughter, Sabine Mira Kokoshi. She is so new, so alive, so naively herself! Delighting in her tiny, but powerful, presence, I am thinking about birth as a soul experience and how all that I do with Imagine Self is midwife the birth-like process of imagining self for
- [Your I is an Image, not a story...](https://imagineself.com/image-story/) - We tell and retell our stories, shape and reshape our identities, and hold our defenses closer and closer and then the moment comes when the I within shines forth and we become, oh so briefly, the radiant Image that lives behind and beyond the stories, identities, and defenses Your I is always present but it
- [Mary Oak - Inner View](https://imagineself.com/mary-oak-inner-view/) - The Inner Christmas Inner Views Yes, these Inner Christmas Inner Views are gifts for you – gifts that make Christmas more conscious, more peaceful, more fulfilling by essentially, developing a mature and measured Christmas of wise choices and good will. Mary Oak - Christmas & Illness [field name=iframe] If you are having
- [Bari Tessler-Linden - Inner View](https://imagineself.com/bari-tessler-linden-inner-view-2/) - The Inner Christmas Inner Views Yes, these Inner Christmas Inner Views are gifts for you – gifts that make Christmas more conscious, more peaceful, more fulfilling by essentially, developing a mature and measured Christmas of wise choices and good will. Bari Tessler-Linden - Christmas & Money [field name=iframe] If you have trouble with the player,
- [Mark McGuinness - Inner View](https://imagineself.com/mark-mcguinness-inner-view/) - The Inner Christmas Inner Views Yes, these Inner Christmas Inner Views are gifts for you – gifts that make Christmas more conscious, more peaceful, more fulfilling by essentially, developing a mature and measured Christmas of wise choices and good will. Mark McGuinness - Christmas & The Creative Entrepreneur [field name=iframe] If you have trouble with
- [Charlie Gilkey - Inner View](https://imagineself.com/charlie-gilkey-inner-view/) - The comments that have been offered are very inspiring...Don't miss them. The Inner Christmas Inner Views Yes, these Inner Christmas Inner Views are gifts for you - gifts that make Christmas more conscious, more peaceful, more fulfilling by essentially, developing a mature and measured Christmas of wise choices and good will. Charlie Gilkey's Gift
- [Waverly Fitzgerald - Inner View](https://imagineself.com/waverly-fitzgerald-inner-view/) - Here is my inner view with Waverly Fitzgerald, the author of Slow Time and the Living in Season online magazine. Everything arising from Waverly's work is valuable for awakening your relationship to nature and the seasons. Waverly has a lifetime of deep engagement with myths, folklore, festivals and nature. I would love to talk with
- [The 3 R's of Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/the-3-rs-of-your-soul/) - In working with my clients over the last 20 years I am always delighted (light up) when I recognize a simple way of expressing and understanding a difficulty or a problem. The simplicity means it is easier to grasp and transform the problem.Just the other day, a client's challenge with setting boundaries and meeting her
- [Giving thanks for deep friendship, an exercise in love.](https://imagineself.com/giving-thanks-deep-friendship-exercise-love/) - First, let me urge you to give yourself the gift of the Inner Advent course. This year I will be bring new perspectives and designs for recollecting, reviewing and releasing the life of your soul during 2013. Click here to learn more and to register. https://theimagineselfacademy.com/courses/10/about With so much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving
- [Permission to Forget](https://imagineself.com/permission-to-forget-2/) - Wow, is this important for spiritual practice and inner development.Give yourself permission to forget.I repeat.Give yourself permission to forget.Forget what?2 things...your daily demandsandyour inner demandsWhen you focus on your inner development, give yourself permission to forget the demands of your daily life.When you focus on your daily life, give yourself permission to forget the demands
- [Celebrate the Past and the Future](https://imagineself.com/celebrate-the-past-and-the-future-2/) - Celebrate the Past, Celebrate the FutureI am writing about the fifth and sixth celebrations of the soul together, because they go together as sweetly as they stand alone. These two celebrations are one in the intimate flow of your lifetime - your past and your future. I was, I am, I will be is the
- [What a difference a year makes?](https://imagineself.com/what-a-difference-a-year-makes-2/) - Your year made a difference - to you, to others, to the world and to the future. What was the difference? It was not just the same routine, the same gestures and activities, the same rhythms of sleep, meals, work, relationships. It was different and it was powerful. If you don't believe it, register for the
- [Inner Vacation](https://imagineself.com/inner-vacation-2/) - In the lazy, hazy days of summer, I hope you have a sweet restorative inner vacation - full of fun and full of meaning.I just looked up the definition(s) of vacation and found some real inspiration for self-awareness and some yummy food for thought.Vacation isan extended period of recreation.a fixed holiday between terms as in
- [The Inner Pull and Outer Push of the Season](https://imagineself.com/inner-pull-outer-push-season/) - We are six weeks from Christmas and seven weeks from the end of the 2013. How are you managing? I like the tension implied in the title of this blogpost - The Inner Pull and Outer Push of the Season. It is just so simply put! To help you manage the tension and the distance
- [The Holy Day of the Inner Misfit](https://imagineself.com/holy-day-inner-misfit/) - In Western Celebration we have the side by side holy days of Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls. These three days bring our attention to an experience of the non-material and yet to dramatic stories. But I want to look at how we experience or imagine ourselves. Halloween celebrated on October 31. Halloween is the
- [Swords to Slay Your Inner Dragons](https://imagineself.com/what-are-your-inner-dragons/) - What is Michaelmas and what does it offer your soul? Even for those familiar with and appreciative of the Festival of Michaelmas, this is a valuable question to ask every year. Is Michaelmas about a saint, an archangel, the harvest, slaying or taming dragons? Or is it about being human and becoming I - in
- [My Inner Autumn Intentions](https://imagineself.com/my-inner-autumn-intentions/) - What do I want to transform or develop over the next 13 weeks of Inner Autumn? What are my inner intentions for developing myself? I thought about an intention of light and another of shadow - the long shadow of the short days of Fall. Here is my light bringing intention: I commit to bring
- [The Equal Night of the Self Aware Soul](https://imagineself.com/the-equal-night-of-the-self-aware-soul/) - Dear Autumn Souls, I began to write this blog on Thursday with the Harvest Moon. Plenty of time to have it done before the Equinox, but as I began to engage with my thoughts and feelings, I went deeper and time passed. So I am sending this to you late. I don’t know how you
- [Hungry?](https://imagineself.com/hungry/) - Here is Part 2 of My Stomach and My Soul... I am having a colonoscopy tomorrow morning, so today is just liquids. A day without solid food. I could scream on one hand, on the other, it is just a day! This time tomorrow I will be eating a big, delicious, very solid lunch. But
- [My Soul & My Stomach!](https://imagineself.com/my-soul-my-stomach/) - Bulletin: The author of this blog has a tight stomach! There I was lying on the table with about fifteen needles poking into my flesh and my stomach wasn’t relaxing. My wonderful acupuncturist kept coming back to my belly one needle at a time to see if my stomach released the excessive tension. No luck.
- [Permission for Pleasure](https://imagineself.com/permission-for-pleasure/) - I just visited a great website, Chocolate for Breakfast where Sue Ann Gleason shares the wisdom of pleasure and permission. So many of us live with and continually suffer from guilty-pleasure-punishment syndrome. We don’t know how or won’t allow ourselves to surrender to our delights and our joys - our “chocolates.” Sue Ann talks about
- [Intimacy: First Imagine...then Establish](https://imagineself.com/intimacy-first-imagine-then-establish/) - Intimacy is a sacred imagination. How do you imagine intimacy? THE FOUR GREAT QUESTIONS There are four great questions for becoming I and cultivating a conscious evolving imagination of self. 1. How do I fulfill my purpose? The Imagination of Contribution. 2. How do I relate to others? The Imagination of Intimacy 3. How do
- [INNER FESTIVAL - The Tide of St John](https://imagineself.com/inner-festival-the-tide-of-st-john/) - Inner Festivals ask us, not to recall a great event in the evolution of human consciousness, but to imagine living the event in our own soul and evolving our own consciousness. WHAT IS AN INNER TIDE? In Christian (and Pagan) calendar, tide relates to an defined period of time in the cycle of the year
- [Contemplating Paternity on Father's Day](https://imagineself.com/contemplating-paternity-on-fathers-day/) - I am using paternity instead of fatherhood because, for me, paternity has a distance living in it. It’s not a cuddly word smelling of aftershave. It doesn’t make me think of being tucked into bed or watching the Thanksgiving turkey being carved. I don’t get sentimental over paternity. I get sober and mature and
- [Earth Parenting - It's Only Natural](https://imagineself.com/earth-parenting/) - THE SEASON OF PARENTAL MYSTERIES In my studies and research of the cycle of the inner year I have recognized the role of Sacred Days, Feasts or Festivals - a single day when we celebrate an event every year. and Sacred Seasons - a period of many days, even weeks, when we devote attention, deepen
- [Thoughts on Self-Comforting](https://imagineself.com/thoughts-on-self-comforting/) - Comforting, it’s different from a break, a vacation, or a reward. It not about chocolate, massage, or a trashy novel. Let’s begin with exploring discomfort.. What experiences make me uncomfortable? Certain thoughts, certain emotions, certain activities. There is visceral discomfort - neurochemical variations, aches and pains, hunger, itchiness, temperature, Then there are mood discomforts, degrees
- [Inner Pentecost & The Four Sublime States](https://imagineself.com/inner-pentecost-the-four-sublime-states/) - Pentecost, the most social of the Inner Festivals, is a great gathering in an upper room. I wonder at this image of the upper room. What is it? Where is it? How do we prepare to enter it? Here are my thoughts. Let them inspire your own imaginations. Take a moment of timeless time and
- [Mothering & Your Other Mothers](https://imagineself.com/mothering-your-other-mothers/) - I’ve been spending many hours over the last weeks considering mother as an ideal as I shape the Inner Mother Inner Father program (see below). What is the ideal of mother or your ideal mother? Here are a couple of dictionary definitions of ideal to help you with the question: adjective 1. satisfying one's conception
- [Mother's Day - A Preparation](https://imagineself.com/mothers-day-a-preparation/) - In a few days, we celebrate Mother’s Day and for most of us it is a very complex celebration. Is it a day for mothers regardless of their strength in mothering? Is it a day when every year, year after year, we acknowledge the woman who gave birth to us, including the nine months her
- [The Missing Manual for Being Human](https://imagineself.com/the-missing-manual-for-being-human/) - The Basics of I course began last week, but you can listen to the first session and still register for the entire course. It truly is the missing manual on being human. See the examples I give below. There is a series of books written about the computing hardware and software products called the Missing
- [The Boston Marathon and the Inner I](https://imagineself.com/the-boston-marathon-and-the-inner-i/) - The Boston Marathon, bombs exploding, life not making any sense. These are times when It is hard to have any sense of self, of being human, that makes any sense. Yet these moments of horror, confusion, dismay and ungroundedness are exactly the moments when we must have a strong, centered, and calm inner experience of
- [I-Opening Curiosity](https://imagineself.com/i-opening-curiosity/) - Today is a fiery New Moon in Aries. Venus and Mars are dancing very close to each other in the sky and relationships are very much alive. I’ve been deeply impressed by the mature brilliance of Esther Perel, a couples therapist in NYC. I watched her TedX Valentine’s Day talk, along with over 1.4 million
- [Easter Sunday - The Inner Challenge](https://imagineself.com/easter-sunday-the-inner-challenge/) - I wish I could say I have a glimmer of understanding or feeling of resurrection. I have a belief in the Resurrection, but not an experience of it. Perhaps that is why we retell the story of Easter every year. Would we need to tell it, if we had the inner deed alive in our
- [Holy Saturday - The Inner Challenge](https://imagineself.com/holy-saturday-the-inner-challenge/) - Welcome to Hades, to Hell, to the Burning, Isolating Sea of No Redemption. Is this a familiar place for you? It is for me, especially in the middle of a sleepless night. The Entombment How do you inwardly bury yourself or parts of yourself? Just choose one of your entombed parts...there are probably many. Is
- [What do you bear within?](https://imagineself.com/what-do-you-bear-within/) - I am writing this post on the Christian Feast of Annunciation celebrating the moment the Archangel Gabriel told the young Mary she was favored by God and would bear his son, Jesus, who was to be the Savior of the world. Whether you hold this as doctrine, fiction, or never think about it, I want
- [The Thresholds of Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/the-thresholds-of-your-soul/) - Today we experience a manifold threshold of many mysterious crossings. The Earth’s relationship to the Sun finds the threshold of the Equinox and the momentary balance between day and night. In Nature, the season changes from Winter to Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Summer to Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Stars, a
- [Lent, Love, & Valentine's Day](https://imagineself.com/lent-love-valentines-day/) - Inner Lent & Your Relationships Today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Will you ignore this time of a deep 40 day practice around meeting temptation because of the the old misinterpretation of this season of the soul by institutionalized Christianity? Would you pay attention to it if it was about more than
- [The Puzzles of Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/the-puzzles-of-your-soul/) - I’ve been writing and writing descriptions of the soul for years and only now have I realized the metaphor of a Rubik’s Cube, the most popular puzzle toy ever. Rubik’s Cube has six sides. Each side has nine squares. 6x9=54 squares. All the squares move and can alter the configuration of each side creating new
- [Shaping 2013 ](https://imagineself.com/shaping-2013/) - Imagining Your Resolutions… Your Words...Your Questions At the bottom of this post, you will find a gift to inspire 2013. On Monday, January 21 at 6PM Eastern, I will be giving the first Finding, Knowing, Becoming teleseminar: Inner Goals, Inner Design, Inner Budget. I will share some great ways to help you be richly successful
- [Your Solstice Attention](https://imagineself.com/your-solstice-attention/) - It is a threshold time of year. We are ending one cycle and beginning another. Thresholds are times to reflect on what was and anticipate what will be. Here are some threshold questions to contemplate. Do find time to sit with yourself, have a cup of tea or a glass of wine, work (don’t just
- [Sandy Hook & Imagining Empathy](https://imagineself.com/sandy-hook-imagining-empathy/) - I was planning on writing about preparing for the coming year — not resolutions, but goals, desires, hopes for being human and becoming I. But something happened on Friday that drew my attention to something that we need to consider first. Do we have a future, a year worth living, if we fail to develop
- [The Wondrous Gift Giver](https://imagineself.com/the-wondrous-gift-giver/) - December 6 celebrates Saint Nicholas who evolved into Santa Claus. What does this saint/icon represent within the human soul? That’s the question I asked myself this morning. Here’s my answer and a few questions. He’s the wondrous gift giver! Find in your soul the wondrous gift giver. Please don’t confuse the WGG with the self-sacrificer
- [Thanks, self-reliance, & context](https://imagineself.com/thanks-self-reliance-context/) - Dear Friends, Just read that when Emerson wrote "On Self Reliance" he was supported and cared for in his daily life by his wife, mother-in-law, three servants, and a gardener -- and the wealth he inherited from his first wife. His thoughts were carefully cultivated by his good friends and great books. I wonder what
- [Dragons - Name them, then slay them](https://imagineself.com/dragons-name-them-then-slay-them/) - “If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?” Rabbi Hillel born 110 BC Rabbi Hillel imparted these words two thousand years ago. They speak archetypal and universal self-inquiry. Part of being human and becoming I,
- [Generating  Wisdom & Possibilities](https://imagineself.com/generating-wisdom-possibilities/) - In this post: Thoughts on wisdom-seeking. What are your wisdom seeking questions about your life in relationships. An audio on four essential elements of intimacy. In my life of conversations, I am always sensitive to the surprise or the gift of wisdom — the moment when I am responding to a question (one that pops
- [Safety, Security, Stability](https://imagineself.com/safety-security-stability/) - 4th of July morning, while I drank my morning tea outside in the sunlight, I meditated on safety — actually, on the FEELING of safety. I am not thinking about being safe. Although looking at feeling safe can lead us to look at safe conditions - being safe from: violence, cold, hunger, lies, mockery, misunderstanding,
- [Sympathy, Empathy, Compassion](https://imagineself.com/sympathy-empathy-compassion/) - Whitsun is upon us. Pentecost is here. As the festivals live in our daily consciousness Pentecost is not a big one - probably for two reasons: The profane reason is there is no earthly profit in the material sense - no Hallmark greeting cards, no special presents like Christmas gifts or the Easter baskets, no
- [Holy Rest](https://imagineself.com/holy-rest/) - Where is Sabbath consciousness in your busy life and in our 24/7 culture? How do you rest or retreat? I first asked this question of a client who is extraordinary in her commitment to doing, managing and caring for her family and her community. Her self-care is about keeping herself healthy so she can keep
- [Intimacy Teleseminar](https://imagineself.com/intimacy-teleseminar-2/) - Intimacy - Finding the Courage and the Compassion to Know and Being Known.Life is a schooling for intimacy and most of us are flunking out and repeating the introductory courses over and over. Why?Intimate relationships are a big risk. They ask us to be transparent and vulnerable. They ask us to tell the truth and
- [Design, Structure, Questions, Intimacy](https://imagineself.com/design-structure-questions-intimacy/) - I’ve spent the last week redesigning the Inner Spring program on Intimacy. I’m so excited by this program because it makes sense of many of the mysteries of relationship. It succeeds by providing a well-designed process and offering a number of structures or frameworks, that actually help you to recognize, organize, evaluate and evolve your
- [Entombment -- Holy Saturday](https://imagineself.com/holy-saturday/) - From the darkest night to the darkest day to what? No scripture describes the experience of Holy Saturday so what do we do with this Easter emptiness? There is almost no reference to this day in the Bible, so we must really imagine strongly. In Easter Mystery of entombment we are asked not to imagine
- [Darkest Dawn -- Easter Sunday Questions](https://imagineself.com/easter-sunday/) - Today is Easter Sunday, 2012. We celebrate the Resurrection today. I’d love to just jump to feelings of Hallelujah and images of the Risen Christ, but the day begins with Mary Magdalen visiting the tomb to be with the corpse. So let us find our Easter questions in this gesture. Mary Magdalen was at the
- [False Witness -- Good Friday](https://imagineself.com/good-friday-2/) - As I work into Inner Easter, I realize what a watered-down, idealized and dramatized, Inner Hollywood, Inner Easter Basket, token and cloudy relationship I’ve had to every aspect of the Easter Mystery. Over twenty years ago I found my way to the wisdom shared by Rudolf Steiner on the evolution of consciousness. When Easter is
- [Turning Points](https://imagineself.com/turning-points/) - Yesterday was the Easter Equinox, the day that day and night are equal in nature. It is a turning point in the year - the relationship of light and dark crosses a threshold. Do you see or sense it? Probably not. Turning points, no matter how profound are rarely noticeable or obvious. It is a
- [Mother’s Day - A Day of Forgiveness](https://imagineself.com/mother’s-day-a-day-of-forgiveness-2/) - Cards, flowers, gifts, brunches and dinners, smiles and hugs and sweet words of appreciation, gratitude and love - that’s what Mother’s Day is all about — another sentimental celebration of the ideal. But what if it were a day of celebrating the shadows of mothering. This is my 64th Mother’s Day. I am choosing to
- [A New Independence](https://imagineself.com/a-new-independence/) - Happy 4th of July! Give yourself a new independence! My Mother’s Day post and my Father’s Day post generated a large number of personal emails and requests for private conversations with me. I am not surprised as how we were mothered and fathered is the source of many of our self-concerns, all the feelings and stories
- [The Missing Pieces - An Understanding of the Father](https://imagineself.com/the-missing-pieces-an-understanding-of-the-father-2/) - Most of my mentees, those I mentor through conscious conversations, arrive wanting to find the missing pieces of their lives. I remember being a child and loving to play withpuzzles - putting all the pieces in place was such a great experience. But when a piece was missing, it didn't matter that I had put
- [Anxiety, Books & Temptation- My Story](https://imagineself.com/anxiety-books-temptation-my-story/) - Attention: Book lovers this post is full of spoilers. But at the end of the post, I offer some creative distinctions that redeem the spoilers. I just got rid of two-thirds of my books! It feels wonderful. I even let go of books I love, books that changed my life, books I’ve always wanted to
- [Whitney, Contribution & Happiness](https://imagineself.com/whitney-contribution-happiness/) - Whitney Houston died on Saturday. Sunday I offered the first session of the Contribution course (the Tuesday sessions begin tomorrow). The singer’s death brought a sobering truth to the understanding of contribution: You can make your contribution and not be happy or healthy, physically, emotionally or spiritually. When Whitney Houston was on stage and singing
- [Working With the Mysteries of Work](https://imagineself.com/working-with-the-mysteries-of-work/) - What is your work? This may or may not be about your job. It is definitely about you and your destiny. Work is intention, effort, activity and accomplishment. What effort and activity goes into your thinking life? Into your feeling life? Into your life in the world? Into your relationships? Into your job? Into your
- [Living from the Power of Skin & Bones](https://imagineself.com/living-from-the-power-of-skin-bones/) - Lately, I find myself sharing with my clients the importance of speaking from their bones and their skin! So much power lives in the voice that carries the consciousness of bones and skin. Let me share this with you especially as you think about your contribution. Bones, our glorious 206 bones, allow us to stand
- [Necessary Conditions - What are they?](https://imagineself.com/necessary-conditions-what-are-they/) - Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw What are the conditions needed for your soul to manifest your
- [Conceiving an Immaculate Self](https://imagineself.com/conceiving-an-immaculate-self/) - December 8th is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. For 1500 years, the birth of Mary has celebrated her purity. The Immaculate Conception is the Catholic doctrine(teaching) that Mary was conceived without original sin and incapable of personal sin. This teaching is important to Catholics. Should it be important
- [Lessons from an Old Stove](https://imagineself.com/lessons-from-an-old-stove/) - My landlord finally agreed to replace the old stove. We had been living for six weeks without a working oven. The delivery men had arrived with the new stove and were removing the old one. And I was about to have a spiritual lesson from a piece of junk.This stove was over 20 years old
- [Spritual Beings - Are They For Real? Do They Matter?](https://imagineself.com/spritual-beings-are-they-for-real-do-they-matter/) - Halloween, All Saints. All Souls. It’s the time of year to focus on evolving our relationship to Spiritual Beings.Are they for real? Do they matter?Until I was in my early forties, spiritual beings didn’t really matter to me. I certainly had beliefs about their existence - Sunday-school-meets-New-Age beliefs, but I had no understanding and no
- [Let Them Live in Your Heart](https://imagineself.com/let-them-live-in-your-heart/) - It is good to recognize a blessing when it appears.This morning I received two blessings both connected to the Lifting the Veils course. The first shows the importance of sharing your story to find yourself and help others and the second pointed out the painful vulnerability of doing this deeply intimate group work using technology.The
- [Soul Shapers - The Story of Gladys & Me](https://imagineself.com/soul-shapers-the-story-of-gladys-me/) - Self development and its accompanying self-healing, self-liberation, and self-empowerment just never ends.Three years ago I wrote a blog on the challenge of making requests. You can read it here. http://liveinfullbloom.blogspot.com/2008/05/requesting-three-helpful-steps-and-true.htmlIt’s good. I nail some of the basics for making effective requests. I have always had a lot of difficulty in making requests and I explore the
- [The Gladys Poems](https://imagineself.com/the-gladys-poems/) - GorGeousGor-geousI can say it.I know what it means.GorgeousWhen I say it I am beautiful.the doorbell ringsa gorgeous soundI run to open the doorGladys, you look gorgeous!She turns cold, dry, ugly.Little girls don’t use words like that, she tells meNo, little girls will never again use words like that…words that sparkle and shine and are filled
- [Lifting the Veils - The Veils From Birth to Seven](https://imagineself.com/lifting-the-veils-the-veils-from-birth-to-seven/) - Answering Life’s Questions...Life’s questions begin as feelings: Why do I have this feeling now? Why do I always feel this way? What happened then, that keeps me from feeling the way I want to feel now? How do I let go of old feelings? and so on. The answers to most, if not all, of
- [Encounters - Engaging Your Spiritual Companions](https://imagineself.com/encounters-engaging-your-spiritual-companions/) - Encounters: Engaging Your Spiritual CompanionsA Webinar with Lynn JerichoThursdays at 8PM Eastern beginning October 27Sundays at 4PM Eastern beginning October 30 This is the time of the Inner Year when we bring our attention to the rich reality and enriching relationships we have with Spiritual Beings. With the ghosts and spooks of Halloween and the
- [](https://imagineself.com/977/) - The Inner RembrandtOne of the surprising welcoming notes around my move to the North Carolina Triangle area is the "Rembrandt in America" show at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/rembrandt/ opening in the most Rembrandt time of year - the end of October when light and dark embrace each other in nature and
- [Inner Changes at the Inner Equinox](https://imagineself.com/inner-changes-at-the-inner-equinox/) - How does your path of self-development change with the Equinox? The Solstices and the Equinoxes are turning points for the work of self-knowledge. The Inner Year is a cosmic organizing and nurturing principle for your inner life just as Nature's Year organizes and nurtures life on Earth. If you think of your Higher Self as
- [Encounters - Confronting Your Challengers](https://imagineself.com/encounters-confronting-your-challengers/) - CONFRONTING YOUR CHALLENGERS Recognize and overcome the challenges to your spiritual and moral development.This is the time of the Inner Year when we seek the wisdom to recognize and overcome the counter forces who seek to challenge us and undermine the truth, beauty and goodness of our human spirit.There are a thousand hacking at the branches
- [Out of the Shadow Into the Light - Ten Years Later](https://imagineself.com/out-of-the-shadow-into-the-light-ten-years-later/) - OUT OF THE SHADOWINTO THE LIGHTONLY YOU CAN DO IT! Thoughts on 9/11 - Ten Years LaterOn July 3, 2001 I moved into a brownstone in Jersey City. There was a deck off the living room where I could see the World Trade Towers across the Hudson River (about a mile away). Exactly ten weeks
- [Life is a High Wire...Are you Out of Balance?](https://imagineself.com/life-is-a-high-wire-are-you-out-of-balance/) - Life is a High Wire...Are you Out of Balance? Are you confused? Are you having difficulty making a choice? Does your life look like you want it to? Is there too much or too little of something or everything? Are you floating away with your fantasies or collapsing under the weight of your daily drudgery?Do
- [The Inner Balance Webinar](https://imagineself.com/the-inner-balance-webinar/) - The Soul's Focus for Inner SummerINNER BALANCEStanding Strongly in Yourself & in the World“ Lynn Jericho's seminars are so very worthwhile. They are engaging, revealing, insightful, and deeply satisfying. Lynn brings great wisdom, humor and kindness as well as a gift for being present with the group and to the needs of individuals.Working with Lynn has
- [Wonder of Childhood Interview](https://imagineself.com/wonder-of-childhood-interview/) - Interview with Lynn Jericho and Give AwayI am so very excited and honored to bring you this interview with Lynn Jericho. Lynn’s work is so powerful, healing and transformative. Lynn works out of Anthropsophy and brings such a dynamic and fertile living element to ideas and phrases bantered about and read in texts. She brings
- [Pistachio Memories](https://imagineself.com/pistachio-memories/) - What are Pistachio Memories? They are not nutty!All memories feed your soul, actually nurture your inner maturity, when you “work” with them in the right context. Lifting the Veils provides the right context:exploring eight archetypal relationships that shaped your childhood and your adult life inspiring and creative questions to evoke your memoriesa compassionate way to
- [Lifting the Veils - Your Life From Birth to Seven](https://imagineself.com/lifting-the-veils-your-life-from-birth-to-seven/) - Answering Life’s Questions...Life’s questions begin as feelings: Why do I have this feeling now? Why do I always feel this way? What happened then, that keeps me from feeling the way I want to feel now? How do I let go of old feelings? and so on. The answers to most, if not all, of
- [Solstice, St John & YOU](https://imagineself.com/solstice-st-john-you-2/) - June 21 The SolsticeMidsummer is here. We have just experienced the Solstice. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we have had the longest day/shortest night of the year. I just realized that I wrote the year. Even for me with all my work bringing our attention to the Inner Year, I write the. Let me begin
- [Standing in the Center - Inner Pentecost](https://imagineself.com/standing-in-the-center-inner-pentecost-2/) - It’s Pentecost.When I write my posts it is always scary and thrilling because I am taking a stand. I take a stand somewhere between opinion and truth, between prejudice and openess, between demand and encouragement. I struggle to have my language of soul meet your language of soul in a creative engagement. I strive to
- [Is Ambivalence Making Crazy?](https://imagineself.com/is-ambivalence-making-crazy-2/) - Do I change or stay the same? Do I rebel or conform? Do I leave or do I stay? Do I do it now or later?Of these 20 possible toppings for my pizza, what are my three choices?Do you suffer from ambivalence? I do, all the time. But I am learning to work with it,
- [](https://imagineself.com/961/) - I read this insightful quote from the great French novelist, Stendhal. He wrote “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.” Which word in this quote got your attention?Each temperament will be attracted to a particular word in this quote and base its interpretation and understanding of the entire statement on it. The choleric will see
- [The New Inner Year Curriculum](https://imagineself.com/the-new-inner-year-curriculum-2/) - THE INNER YEAR CURRICULUMIf you want to know yourself better, make this and every year a year of growing and profound self-awarenessBeing Human Courses - A Primer in the Core Experiences of Being Human Becoming I Courses - The Fundamental Schooling for Healing, Liberating and Empowering Your IndividualityInner Winter Curriculum - DestinyBeing Human: The Three Temptations:
- [Are you seen? Do you see?](https://imagineself.com/are-you-seen-do-you-see-2/) - In the film, Avatar, instead of saying “I love you,” the Navi say “I see you.” The Navi experience and cherish all of life as connected and interwoven, so the statement “I see you,” indicates an intimacy that recognizes and cherishes the individual beyond the collective connection.Today, I was reading an interview with Barbara Taylor
- [The Fund of Generosity](https://imagineself.com/the-fund-of-generosity-2/) - You have arrived here because you are considering donating beyond the program fee. any amount is welcome. Thank you for your financial integrity and your generosity.You just need to go to the Donation button on the right column.
- [Inner Easter's Tender Possibilities](https://imagineself.com/inner-easters-tender-possibilities-2/) - Find Yourself Know Yourself Become YourselfApril 20, 2011 Your inner life is designed by you for you.How do you want to design your Inner Easter and Inner Spring? By you, for you! Read on below, if you want my suggestions of elements to include in your design.What I write and teach through the
- [Happiness or Wisdom?](https://imagineself.com/happiness-or-wisdom-2/) - It’s amazing and thrilling to me... over 4000 people opened the email I sent out on “Is This You???” I’ve received many, many responses - more than I can answer. This has given me the idea to include a “Is This You?” statement in each newsletter in the future. Some of you even suggested other
- [Can you say YES, to saying NO?](https://imagineself.com/can-you-say-yes-to-saying-no-2/) - What is Lent about for you in 2011? For me, Lent is about learning to say "No" to what tempts us.Most of us aren’t very successful saying " No" when we are weak with our bottomless addictions, our powerful fantasies and our rigid prejudices. And each of us, if we look at ourselves with objective
- [Those constant temptations...](https://imagineself.com/those-constant-temptations-2/) - What is the meaning of Lent for your soul?In the cycle of the Inner Year, the first quarter of the year is spent working with your relationship to yourself:Inner Epiphany celebrates and deepens your sense of the purpose living in your existence.Imagining Your Contribution addresses the evolving needs and expressions of that purpose. Then comes
- [Inner Epiphany - Your Initiative](https://imagineself.com/inner-epiphany-your-initiative-2/) - YOUR INITIATIVEInitiative is the power of the individual (or community) to begin to manifest a new reality. In other words, it is the courage and power to show up as yourself, contribute what only you can contribute and make the difference only you can make.Initiative lives in initiates. In ancient times there was a process
- [Inner Epiphany - Your Baptism](https://imagineself.com/inner-epiphany-your-baptism-2/) - Inner BaptismThe second Inner Epiphany is the baptism in the living waters and the entry and embodiment of the divine intention into human consciousness, your individual consciousness. When the three gifts of the first epiphany are doing their work. Your thought life is now living and flowing with truth through the gesture of frankincense. Your
- [Inner Epiphany - Your Three Gifts](https://imagineself.com/inner-epiphany-your-three-gifts-2/) - Inner Epiphany in the time in the cycle of the Inner Year when we notice the new light living in our souls from our Inner Christmas. We see the gifts of waking up, warming up, and wising up to ourselves and we realize our future begins now.To understand the purpose of Inner Epiphany, we need
- [Celebrate Relationships in Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/celebrate-relationships-in-your-soul-2/) - Celebrate relationships.Just a reminder that I am asking all of us to experience inner celebration as an honoring of being human, of the daily success at incarnating self into the unfolding of your life. Celebration done consciously becomes a consecration, a making sacred. Our lives are filled with little, simple, sweet, yet profound acts of
- [Celebrate Riches in Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/celebrate-riches-in-your-soul-2/) - Celebrate RichesThis is the celebration of all the creations of humankind - our material riches. We need to honor our creative efforts. There is joy in being grateful for all things useful and all things beautiful that exist as a result of human imagination and human productivity,As I write I am listening to great music
- [Beyond the Prayers of Childhood](https://imagineself.com/beyond-the-prayers-of-childhood-2/) - How did you learn how to pray? What did you pray to? Pray for?I learned to pray at night before I went to sleep. I learned to be on my knees. At four, with a naive sense of responsibility and devotion, I loved the litany of individuals in my “God bless...and...and...and...and…” list. I was proud
- [Connecting With the Dead and other Spiritual Beings](https://imagineself.com/connecting-with-the-dead-and-other-spiritual-beings-2/) - Do you ever want to connect with a loved one who has died?There is a thread in your heart that ties you to many souls who are no longer living. How do you work with this thread? Do you know how to connect actively with the dead? The true core of each human being is
- [Feeling at Home](https://imagineself.com/feeling-at-home-2/) - Here is a question to guide you into an Inner Life reflection. Take the time and discover something about yourself. It will clarify and strengthen the choices you make. And if you like what you find, consider joining my upcoming Inner Life program: Cycles, Themes, Patterns, Threads: An Introduction to Biographical Review. In a couple
- [Celebrate Nativity in Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/celebrate-nativity-in-your-soul-2/) - At the end of my message on celebrating nature, I said today's message would be about celebrating divinity but after much thought I am calling it nativity. When I wrote my book, "Six Ways to Celebrate Christmas & Celebrate You!," I did not "think" about calling the second celebration Nativity as Christmas is Nativity -
- [Celebrate Nature in Your Soul](https://imagineself.com/celebrate-nature-in-your-soul-2/) - As I am getting ready to post this, I am sitting by an open window on the first cool morning of the fall. My skin was just touched by a slightly chilling breeze. I notice it with a smile. Will I recall it tonight when I review my day? Every moment of our lives we
- [A Sword to Protect Your Soul...forged in the heavens](https://imagineself.com/a-sword-to-protect-your-soul-forged-in-the-heavens-2/) - Archangel Michael, is the spirit of our times. The mood of our times is anxiety and Michael is the spiritual model and teacher of the courage, calmness and clarity that overcomes the mood of anxiety. If you are challenged by demons of confusion, overwhelm, uncertainty, fear, Michael’s spiritual sword can pierce your soul, filling it
- [Imagine self/SELF](https://imagineself.com/imagine-selfself-2/) - As I reflect back over my work over the last 21 years, I recognize the thread that weaves all the counseling, writing, speaking and teaching into a meaningful fabric - supporting each of us in imagining our own individuality. I've been discovering and sharing tools, insights, inspirations and encouragement for forming a sense of self/SELF
- [Where did I come from?? Where did I begin??](https://imagineself.com/where-did-i-come-from-where-did-i-begin-2/) - Where did I come from???? Where did I begin???There are two answers to these two questions: Sex and Spirit!As a physical being, I come from and began in a sexual act between my mother and my father.So do you!As a conscious, evolving being, I come from and began in realms of spirit.So do you!Both sexuality
- [Summer Questions](https://imagineself.com/summer-questions-2/) - Do you have any summer questions? You know the ones about wishing life was different? They pop into your thoughts while you are walking along the beach or wishing you were. What part of your life do you think about changing, making better, enjoying more?Your relationship?Your work?Your finances?Your body?Your discipline?Your parenting?Your celebrating?Your decision-making?What feelings do
- [The Natural You & The Unnatural You](https://imagineself.com/the-natural-you-the-unnatural-you-2/) - Summer is the time of light. Spring is the growing of light but summer is the celebration of light. And in the celebrating we overlook that the light has begun to diminish.St. John's Tide comes three days after the Summer Solstice. It is the day that the light begins it's diminishing. When did you reach
- [Understanding and Being Understood](https://imagineself.com/understanding-and-being-understood-2/) - I am visiting England and having a beautiful time. Dear friends and beautiful gardens provide me with amazing conversations with human spirits and nature spirits. Today is the festival of Pentecost or Whitsun which reminds us of the sacred event fifty days after the Easter when the Holy Spirit ignites the twin tongues of fire
- [Courage and Sacred Conversations](https://imagineself.com/courage-and-sacred-conversations-2/) - It is amazing how the gods support our intentions. My intention was to write a second email about sacred conversations. I want a lot of you to register for my teleseminar, The Elements of Sacred Conversations. Why? Because the two 90-minute sessions will give you a foundation for and an imagination of the real capacity
- [Inner Easter - Your Resurrection](https://imagineself.com/inner-easter-your-resurrection-2/) - This Easter Sunday feel the sun rising in your heart of hearts flooding you with the light of freedom and the warmth of love. Be new. This newness is not a new reflection of the old, familiar you. It is new to the core. Everything in you that could suffer and die, everything in you
- [Inner Easter - Holy Saturday](https://imagineself.com/inner-easter-holy-saturday-2/) - Most of our Easter education gives little attention to Holy Saturday and the Descent into Hell. Probably the Church fathers chose to neglect the harrowing of hell because it indicated the Christ forgave all sins and released souls from the eternal fires of hell. Where is the supremacy of the Church, of the priesthood, if
- [Inner Easter - Your Last Supper](https://imagineself.com/inner-easter-your-last-supper-2/) - Maundy Thursday is the day of the Last Supper. Below I've posted an audio to share some thoughts on awakening within your own soul a feeling for the experience of the Last Supper. As usual, the imagination of the last supper, like all the Inner Year imaginations, nurtures all souls on a spiritual path
- [Inner Easter - A Challenge, Not a Comfort](https://imagineself.com/inner-easter-a-challenge-not-a-comfort-2/) - As I work through and around the Inner Year of my soul, I find the Inner Solstices bring comfort and joy to the soul (Christmas and St John’s Tide) and the Inner Equinoxes (Easter and Michaelmas) bring challenge and suffering to the soul. How is this so? What comes to my heart is an imagination
- [The Second Question](https://imagineself.com/the-second-question-2/) - The 2nd question to ask before having conversations with spiritual beings is a doozie.What is a Spiritual Being? This question generates many, many questions so it is not one that we ask very often. This may also be due to the fact that most of us grew up with “God.”If the idea of “God” is
- [Two Things to Ask Before Having a Conversation With a Spiritual Being](https://imagineself.com/two-things-to-ask-before-having-a-conversation-with-a-spiritual-being-2/) - The First Question:What is a conversation?How many conversations do you have in the course of a day, a week, a year, a lifetime?Having been part of so many conversations, how do you define conversation? If you were to write your own definition of conversation would it change your response to the the question about how
- [Three Adversaries to a Good Life](https://imagineself.com/three-adversaries-to-a-good-life-2/) - The adversaries to a good life are many. They sneak into our personal thoughts, feelings and behaviors and oppose our healing, our liberation and our empowerment - the good life. They are internal and external forces that distract, disturb, delay or destroy our attention and intention. When we seek to learn or express truth, beauty
- [Give a Party with Meaning](https://imagineself.com/give-a-party-with-meaning/) - Two of my clients have recently had surgery for cancer - one for third-stage ovarian cancer and the other for metastatic breast cancer. Both these women are intelligent, resourceful, creative and courageous. Both are working with traditional and alternative healing approaches. Cancer has inspired both to find deeper self-awareness, ask profound spiritual questions, and to
- [Defining and Finding Balance](https://imagineself.com/defining-and-finding-balance-2/) - The Mysteries and Questions of BalanceLate summer, as the crispness of autumn air begins to energize us, we find the cosmic forces supporting our souls in the organization of our lives. This is the time of year to contemplate balance.How balanced is your life? How balanced would you like it to be? What is a
- [Thoughts and Questions on Intimacy](https://imagineself.com/thoughts-and-questions-on-intimacy-2/) - In the course of the Inner Year, the annual cycle of soul development. Where Christmas, at the dark of the year, is the time we focus on our spiritual solitude - the deep interior of our lives, summer, when the sun shines brightest is the time of the Inner Year to focus on our life
- [Pentecost, Community and The Future](https://imagineself.com/pentecost-community-and-the-future-2/) - There is so much living in the description of Pentecost.A gathering of people from all kinds of backgrounds, cultures, and status.A mighty wind that blows through the whole house.The Spirit appearing as a divided tongue of fire on everyone.Everyone speaking and hearing everyone’s native language.And it shall come to pass in the last days, says
- [On Completion and Hope](https://imagineself.com/on-completion-and-hope/) - Spring is a time of beginnings. I love beginnings. I love the creative potential living in beginnings.And, I have a certain uneasiness, maybe sometimes a terror, of completion. This is probably because I confuse completion with ending, death, nevermore, impossible to alter or evolve, ultimate separation.So I feel I am overwhelmed with incompletions. Paradoxically, this
- [Love and The Inner Year](https://imagineself.com/love-and-the-inner-year-2/) - I base all my Inner Year writing, teaching and healing on the commitment that all spiritual realities must be made practical and functional in our material lives or they are simply “stories,” beautiful, powerful, frightening, soothing, but without daily practical impact. I want to spiritualize my material life and materialize my spiritual life. I want
- [A Lonely Place](https://imagineself.com/a-lonely-place-2/) - There are times in our inner lives when we must dwell in a lonely place. A lonely place is unfrequented and remote. You dwell there without companions and without comforts. Inner Lent takes place in a lonely place. The reward of spending time in your lonely place is a clear inner strength of purpose and
- [Inspiration](https://imagineself.com/inspiration/) - I subscribe to Garr Reynold's blog Presentation Zen. Garr is a genius at presentation skills, has tremendous warmth, and shares meaningful experiences and insights.Recently he posted thoughts on being inspired. Garr shared this wonderful video below of Sir Ken Robinson speaking about the inspiration of his father. (I urge you to also watch Sir Ken's
- [Peace and Goodwill](https://imagineself.com/peace-and-goodwill-2/) - Last year at Christmastime, I gave an interactive presentation on exploring the personal meaning ofPeace On Earth to Human Souls of GoodwillI find this translation from Rudolf Steiner, the most empowering of the individual and the most meaningful in awakening the forces of community. Do you?Let me give you two contrasting translations,"Peace on Earth, goodwill
- [How We Remember](https://imagineself.com/how-we-remember/) - My former husband crossed the threshold of death yesterday morning. He was 86. I am full of many complex feelings. I married him two weeks after our first date. I was 24. He was 49. We had 18 years together, most very loving. Our two children are amazing human beings. Yet for most of the
- [Connecting with The Dead](https://imagineself.com/connecting-with-the-dead-2/) - Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, October 31 - November 2, are Holy Days devoted to the dead. This time of the Inner Year we seek to understand and evolve our relationship with the dead. How do we show devotion to those who have crossed the threshold of death?My Childhood ExperiencesMy cousin died
- [Conquering Demon Thoughts - Part 1](https://imagineself.com/conquering-demon-thoughts-part-1/) - Recently, I was working with a client who was struggling with a negative obsessive thought. You know, the kind of thought that won’t go away and causes a ridiculous, often overwhelming amount of anxiety, fear, or anger. This is a demon thought that grabs hold of you and makes your life miserable.Right now with the
- [The Paradox of Peace](https://imagineself.com/the-paradox-of-peace/) - September 21 is being celebrated as the International Day of Peace. Since I attended a meeting of NGO's to discuss how to bring awareness of IDP to the world at the UN last May, I have been spending serious moments considering peace.Here is the short video I made to acknowledge the day.The vocalist is Derek
- [Requesting - Three Helpful Steps and True Confessions](https://imagineself.com/requesting-three-helpful-steps-and-true-confessions/) - I offer. I offer. I offer. I do not request. Actually, I avoid requestingI am a caregiver, a listener, a healer, a sometimes wise woman. I am a metaphorical mother’s breast of endlessly flowing milk. I find esteem and comfort in providing. I find shame and agony in requesting. When it comes to requesting, I

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- [the meaning of community](https://imagineself.com/tag/the-meaning-of-community/)
- [Waldorf communities](https://imagineself.com/tag/waldorf-communities/)
- [Easter 2014](https://imagineself.com/tag/easter-2014/)
- [Crucifixion](https://imagineself.com/tag/crucifixion/)
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- [commonality](https://imagineself.com/tag/commonality/)
- [differences](https://imagineself.com/tag/differences/)
- [mysteries of relationship](https://imagineself.com/tag/mysteries-of-relationship/)
- [Caring about](https://imagineself.com/tag/caring-about/)
- [conversation](https://imagineself.com/tag/conversation/)
- [greatness of soul](https://imagineself.com/tag/greatness-of-soul/)
- [relaxation](https://imagineself.com/tag/relaxation/)
- [existential love](https://imagineself.com/tag/existential-love/)
- [fear](https://imagineself.com/tag/fear/)
- [ethers](https://imagineself.com/tag/ethers/)
- [cultivation](https://imagineself.com/tag/cultivation/)
- [soul gardening](https://imagineself.com/tag/soul-gardening/)
- [time for myself](https://imagineself.com/tag/time-for-myself/)
- [time for yourself](https://imagineself.com/tag/time-for-yourself/)
- [conscious indulgence](https://imagineself.com/tag/conscious-indulgence/)
- [conscious development](https://imagineself.com/tag/conscious-development/)
- [distraction](https://imagineself.com/tag/distraction/)
- [personal growth](https://imagineself.com/tag/personal-growth/)
- [self-development](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-development/)
- [metaphor](https://imagineself.com/tag/metaphor/)
- [fast lanes](https://imagineself.com/tag/fast-lanes/)
- [traffic jams](https://imagineself.com/tag/traffic-jams/)
- [parking valet](https://imagineself.com/tag/parking-valet/)
- [GPS for life](https://imagineself.com/tag/gps-for-life/)
- [in good time](https://imagineself.com/tag/in-good-time/)
- [Micha-el](https://imagineself.com/tag/micha-el/)
- [Trauma](https://imagineself.com/tag/trauma/)
- [Demons](https://imagineself.com/tag/demons/)
- [ambiguous loss](https://imagineself.com/tag/ambiguous-loss/)
- [frozen grief](https://imagineself.com/tag/frozen-grief/)
- [guilt](https://imagineself.com/tag/guilt/)
- [absent father](https://imagineself.com/tag/absent-father/)
- [stillness](https://imagineself.com/tag/stillness/)
- [Maya Angelou](https://imagineself.com/tag/maya-angelou/)
- [self-contempt](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-contempt/)
- [self-doubt](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-doubt/)
- [comforting grief](https://imagineself.com/tag/comforting-grief/)
- [types of grieving](https://imagineself.com/tag/types-of-grieving/)
- [mother's grief](https://imagineself.com/tag/mothers-grief/)
- [death of a child](https://imagineself.com/tag/death-of-a-child/)
- [dealing with miscarriage](https://imagineself.com/tag/dealing-with-miscarriage/)
- [abortion](https://imagineself.com/tag/abortion/)
- [inability to conceive](https://imagineself.com/tag/inability-to-conceive/)
- [stillbirth](https://imagineself.com/tag/stillbirth/)
- [Lamentation](https://imagineself.com/tag/lamentation/)
- [ugly duckling](https://imagineself.com/tag/ugly-duckling/)
- [swan](https://imagineself.com/tag/swan/)
- [bad day](https://imagineself.com/tag/bad-day/)
- [self-parenting](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-parenting/)
- [inner child](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-child/)
- [inner mother](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-mother/)
- [inner father](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-father/)
- [healing the wounds of childhood](https://imagineself.com/tag/healing-the-wounds-of-childhood/)
- [personal development](https://imagineself.com/tag/personal-development/)
- [anthroposophical counseling](https://imagineself.com/tag/anthroposophical-counseling/)
- [Inner Pentecost](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-pentecost/)
- [eros](https://imagineself.com/tag/eros/)
- [philia](https://imagineself.com/tag/philia/)
- [agape](https://imagineself.com/tag/agape/)
- [storge](https://imagineself.com/tag/storge/)
- [ludus](https://imagineself.com/tag/ludus/)
- [pragma](https://imagineself.com/tag/pragma/)
- [philautia](https://imagineself.com/tag/philautia/)
- [Christian Festivals](https://imagineself.com/tag/christian-festivals/)
- [freedom](https://imagineself.com/tag/freedom/)
- [inner independence](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-independence/)
- [bookkeeping](https://imagineself.com/tag/bookkeeping/)
- [mantra](https://imagineself.com/tag/mantra/)
- [personal mantra. safe](https://imagineself.com/tag/personal-mantra-safe/)
- [calm](https://imagineself.com/tag/calm/)
- [awake](https://imagineself.com/tag/awake/)
- [nourished](https://imagineself.com/tag/nourished/)
- [making choices](https://imagineself.com/tag/making-choices/)
- [grace](https://imagineself.com/tag/grace/)
- [chance](https://imagineself.com/tag/chance/)
- [unpredictability](https://imagineself.com/tag/unpredictability/)
- [Inner Festivals](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-festivals/)
- [Inner Year](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-year/)
- [Evil](https://imagineself.com/tag/evil/)
- [Garr Reynolds](https://imagineself.com/tag/garr-reynolds/)
- [archangel](https://imagineself.com/tag/archangel/)
- [courage](https://imagineself.com/tag/courage/)
- [calmness](https://imagineself.com/tag/calmness/)
- [clarity](https://imagineself.com/tag/clarity/)
- [dragon bread](https://imagineself.com/tag/dragon-bread/)
- [rudolph the red-nosed reindeer](https://imagineself.com/tag/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/)
- [belonging](https://imagineself.com/tag/belonging/)
- [marginalization](https://imagineself.com/tag/marginalization/)
- [loneliness](https://imagineself.com/tag/loneliness/)
- [threshold](https://imagineself.com/tag/threshold/)
- [abyss](https://imagineself.com/tag/abyss/)
- [epiphany](https://imagineself.com/tag/epiphany/)
- [temptation](https://imagineself.com/tag/temptation/)
- [trial](https://imagineself.com/tag/trial/)
- [initiation](https://imagineself.com/tag/initiation/)
- [Addiction](https://imagineself.com/tag/addiction/)
- [Fantasy](https://imagineself.com/tag/fantasy/)
- [Prejudice](https://imagineself.com/tag/prejudice/)
- [suffering](https://imagineself.com/tag/suffering/)
- [disappointment](https://imagineself.com/tag/disappointment/)
- [Christian Liturgical Calendar](https://imagineself.com/tag/christian-liturgical-calendar/)
- [rest](https://imagineself.com/tag/rest/)
- [perfect day](https://imagineself.com/tag/perfect-day/)
- [Last Supper](https://imagineself.com/tag/last-supper/)
- [meditations](https://imagineself.com/tag/meditations/)
- [understanding my mother](https://imagineself.com/tag/understanding-my-mother/)
- [mother/daughter relationship](https://imagineself.com/tag/motherdaughter-relationship/)
- [temperaments](https://imagineself.com/tag/temperaments/)
- [12 senses](https://imagineself.com/tag/12-senses/)
- [life processes](https://imagineself.com/tag/life-processes/)
- [Vitruvius](https://imagineself.com/tag/vitruvius/)
- [ontology](https://imagineself.com/tag/ontology/)
- [taxonomy](https://imagineself.com/tag/taxonomy/)
- [choreography](https://imagineself.com/tag/choreography/)
- [life contexts](https://imagineself.com/tag/life-contexts/)
- [self control](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-control/)
- [world](https://imagineself.com/tag/world/)
- [finances](https://imagineself.com/tag/finances/)
- [health](https://imagineself.com/tag/health/)
- [space](https://imagineself.com/tag/space/)
- [yom kippur](https://imagineself.com/tag/yom-kippur/)
- [terrorism](https://imagineself.com/tag/terrorism/)
- [Violence](https://imagineself.com/tag/violence/)
- [hatred](https://imagineself.com/tag/hatred/)
- [your impact](https://imagineself.com/tag/your-impact/)
- [moral practice](https://imagineself.com/tag/moral-practice/)
- [spiritual practice](https://imagineself.com/tag/spiritual-practice/)
- [mindful practice](https://imagineself.com/tag/mindful-practice/)
- [13 page turns](https://imagineself.com/tag/13-page-turns/)
- [writing picture books](https://imagineself.com/tag/writing-picture-books/)
- [self](https://imagineself.com/tag/self/)
- [memoir workshops](https://imagineself.com/tag/memoir-workshops/)
- [inner equilibrium](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner-equilibrium/)
- [meditation](https://imagineself.com/tag/meditation/)
- [23rd Psalm](https://imagineself.com/tag/23rd-psalm/)
- [working with the dead](https://imagineself.com/tag/working-with-the-dead/)
- [ancestors](https://imagineself.com/tag/ancestors/)
- [flower essences](https://imagineself.com/tag/flower-essences/)
- [family constellations](https://imagineself.com/tag/family-constellations/)
- [Election](https://imagineself.com/tag/election/)
- [kindness](https://imagineself.com/tag/kindness/)
- [the future of America](https://imagineself.com/tag/the-future-of-america/)
- [US history](https://imagineself.com/tag/us-history/)
- [leftovers](https://imagineself.com/tag/leftovers/)
- [Advent](https://imagineself.com/tag/advent/)
- [gifts](https://imagineself.com/tag/gifts/)
- [intimate](https://imagineself.com/tag/intimate/)
- [chocolate truffles](https://imagineself.com/tag/chocolate-truffles/)
- [song lyrics](https://imagineself.com/tag/song-lyrics/)
- [spirit](https://imagineself.com/tag/spirit/)
- [Oscar Hammerstein](https://imagineself.com/tag/oscar-hammerstein/)
- [gaze](https://imagineself.com/tag/gaze/)
- [gazing](https://imagineself.com/tag/gazing/)
- [romance](https://imagineself.com/tag/romance/)
- [love story](https://imagineself.com/tag/love-story/)
- [40 days](https://imagineself.com/tag/40-days/)
- [happiness](https://imagineself.com/tag/happiness/)
- [happy](https://imagineself.com/tag/happy/)
- [feelings](https://imagineself.com/tag/feelings/)
- [personal manifesto](https://imagineself.com/tag/personal-manifesto/)
- [declaration of independence](https://imagineself.com/tag/declaration-of-independence/)
- [ten commandments](https://imagineself.com/tag/ten-commandments/)
- [badass soul](https://imagineself.com/tag/badass-soul/)
- [Control of your life](https://imagineself.com/tag/control-of-your-life/)
- [establishing freedom](https://imagineself.com/tag/establishing-freedom/)
- [shaping values](https://imagineself.com/tag/shaping-values/)
- [morality](https://imagineself.com/tag/morality/)
- [mantra of life](https://imagineself.com/tag/mantra-of-life/)
- [Nurturing Aliveness](https://imagineself.com/tag/nurturing-aliveness/)
- [mercy](https://imagineself.com/tag/mercy/)
- [aging](https://imagineself.com/tag/aging/)
- [impact](https://imagineself.com/tag/impact/)
- [passion](https://imagineself.com/tag/passion/)
- [satisfaction](https://imagineself.com/tag/satisfaction/)
- [dying](https://imagineself.com/tag/dying/)
- [self-awareness](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-awareness/)
- [facing difficulties](https://imagineself.com/tag/facing-difficulties/)
- [guardian angel](https://imagineself.com/tag/guardian-angel/)
- [elementals](https://imagineself.com/tag/elementals/)
- [Richard Rohr](https://imagineself.com/tag/richard-rohr/)
- [spiritual companions](https://imagineself.com/tag/spiritual-companions/)
- [hierarchies](https://imagineself.com/tag/hierarchies/)
- [conversations](https://imagineself.com/tag/conversations/)
- [soul comforts](https://imagineself.com/tag/soul-comforts/)
- [Comforts](https://imagineself.com/tag/comforts/)
- [sleeping](https://imagineself.com/tag/sleeping/)
- [body & soul](https://imagineself.com/tag/body-soul/)
- [Ash Wednesday](https://imagineself.com/tag/ash-wednesday/)
- [Addictions](https://imagineself.com/tag/addictions/)
- [Fantasies](https://imagineself.com/tag/fantasies/)
- [Prejudices](https://imagineself.com/tag/prejudices/)
- [Imagine Self Academy](https://imagineself.com/tag/imagine-self-academy/)
- [grieving](https://imagineself.com/tag/grieving/)
- [loss](https://imagineself.com/tag/loss/)
- [hope](https://imagineself.com/tag/hope/)
- [self-pity](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-pity/)
- [forgiveness](https://imagineself.com/tag/forgiveness/)
- [moral breathing](https://imagineself.com/tag/moral-breathing/)
- [evening practice](https://imagineself.com/tag/evening-practice/)
- [narrative](https://imagineself.com/tag/narrative/)
- [karmic](https://imagineself.com/tag/karmic/)
- [Only One](https://imagineself.com/tag/only-one/)
- [New Easter](https://imagineself.com/tag/new-easter/)
- [debates](https://imagineself.com/tag/debates/)
- [Anderson Cooper](https://imagineself.com/tag/anderson-cooper/)
- [Gloria Vanderbilt](https://imagineself.com/tag/gloria-vanderbilt/)
- [sovereignty](https://imagineself.com/tag/sovereignty/)
- [Worthiness](https://imagineself.com/tag/worthiness/)
- [prayer](https://imagineself.com/tag/prayer/)
- [dust](https://imagineself.com/tag/dust/)
- [marie kondo](https://imagineself.com/tag/marie-kondo/)
- [biography](https://imagineself.com/tag/biography/)
- [autobiography](https://imagineself.com/tag/autobiography/)
- [memoir](https://imagineself.com/tag/memoir/)
- [March](https://imagineself.com/tag/march/)
- [St Patricks](https://imagineself.com/tag/st-patricks/)
- [Daylight Savings](https://imagineself.com/tag/daylight-savings/)
- [Spring colors](https://imagineself.com/tag/spring-colors/)
- [Trinity](https://imagineself.com/tag/trinity/)
- [Coronavirus](https://imagineself.com/tag/coronavirus/)
- [mediation](https://imagineself.com/tag/mediation/)
- [anxiety](https://imagineself.com/tag/anxiety/)
- [isolation](https://imagineself.com/tag/isolation/)
- [archangels](https://imagineself.com/tag/archangels/)
- [angels](https://imagineself.com/tag/angels/)
- [worship](https://imagineself.com/tag/worship/)
- [questions only](https://imagineself.com/tag/questions-only/)
- [biographical reflections](https://imagineself.com/tag/biographical-reflections/)
- [courageous self-expression](https://imagineself.com/tag/courageous-self-expression/)
- [Pivot](https://imagineself.com/tag/pivot/)
- [pivoting](https://imagineself.com/tag/pivoting/)
- [Goethe](https://imagineself.com/tag/goethe/)
- [translations](https://imagineself.com/tag/translations/)
- [Die and Become](https://imagineself.com/tag/die-and-become/)
- [democracy](https://imagineself.com/tag/democracy/)
- [visualization](https://imagineself.com/tag/visualization/)
- [Planets](https://imagineself.com/tag/planets/)
- [Gods](https://imagineself.com/tag/gods/)
- [Chiron](https://imagineself.com/tag/chiron/)
- [declaration of neighborly love](https://imagineself.com/tag/declaration-of-neighborly-love/)
- [love thy neighbor as thyself](https://imagineself.com/tag/love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself/)
- [Matthew 22:36](https://imagineself.com/tag/matthew-2236/)
- [death of a friend](https://imagineself.com/tag/death-of-a-friend/)
- [saying goodbye](https://imagineself.com/tag/saying-goodbye/)
- [planning death](https://imagineself.com/tag/planning-death/)
- [mortality](https://imagineself.com/tag/mortality/)
- [self-worth](https://imagineself.com/tag/self-worth/)
- [Calm Soul](https://imagineself.com/tag/calm-soul/)
- [process](https://imagineself.com/tag/process/)
- [practice](https://imagineself.com/tag/practice/)
- [perspectives](https://imagineself.com/tag/perspectives/)
- [Pieta](https://imagineself.com/tag/pieta/)
- [Inner](https://imagineself.com/tag/inner/)
- [askaskic record](https://imagineself.com/tag/askaskic-record/)
- [EgoSophia](https://imagineself.com/tag/egosophia/)
- [Substack](https://imagineself.com/tag/substack/)
- [Martha](https://imagineself.com/tag/martha/)
- [Body & Spirit](https://imagineself.com/tag/body-spirit/)
- [Divine Feminine](https://imagineself.com/tag/divine-feminine/)
- [Bethany](https://imagineself.com/tag/bethany/)
- [Selfcare](https://imagineself.com/tag/selfcare/)
- [stress](https://imagineself.com/tag/stress/)
- [emotion](https://imagineself.com/tag/emotion/)