I have been performing and teaching piano for over 30 years. I have also been teaching meditation for about half of that time and started my own meditation practice about the same time I started teaching piano. In other words, a good majority of my working life has been sitting one on one with individuals either creating beautiful piano music or meditating and counseling. Both entail lots of listening and connection. It has been an incredible opportunity to develop discipline, courage, and passion in myself and others. One of the ways I do this is by enrolling students in music festivals … [read more]
Archives for March 2016
Abiding With The Unwanted Emotion
Abiding with the unwanted emotion is the only way to effectively dissolve it. If we take our negative self talk, our “inner considering”, and send it away as unwanted or find ways to ignore it, we do not learn the process by which we gain understanding. Our struggle to rest in the uncomfortable place and watch from a witness perspective, unified in body, heart and mind will bring about impressions of a higher nature. Those new impressions are what propel us forward in our understanding of self. This is what developing attention is all about. Most think it is … [read more]
The Law of Three
The Law of Three comes to us in the representation of the triangle in sacred geometry and can help us understand process. We can use it effectively in decision making, manifestation, and our path to self transformation. In any given situation, we have 2 forces present, but for something to come to fruition, it must have three. Looking at the triangle, we have a reciprocal relationship at either end of each of the lines and unification in regard to the three elements. The Law of Three acts in a process as seen in an enneagram and the triangle itself represents … [read more]
Here Comes Da Judge
Here come da judge, just when I thought I was over it. My judgement of anything, be it my body, my actions, my situation, my status, my income, my partner is the way I separate myself from myself and others. It is the energy of thought always having to evaluate whether something is right or wrong in my eyes. I am so conditioned to evaluate in this way that I am seemingly not affected by it. I no longer know it is happening. Even my slightest thought about how my body isn’t in shape is the energy of separation. I … [read more]
Past, Present and Future
I saw this cartoon and felt compelled to write a short blog regarding our notion of the past, present and future. Why are we so compelled to know about our future or our past? Truly the majority of us have no access to what has happened or will happen, and so we pay big bucks for everything future and everything past, looking for answers to our big questions about us in the present. It’s true no one is really asking about now, and I have my theories about that. We believe we already know about now. We believe we know who … [read more]