Developing an illness has many ramifications, not least of course that the person afflicted has to endure a lot of physical pain and discomfort. Beyond that, he or she has been handed a new project: figuring out how to fit in doctor appointments, dietary changes, treatments that cause a...
What Are the Four Quadrants and How Do They Apply to Chronic Illness? The Four Quadrants model comes from Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, a metatheory of what it is to be a human being in this universe. The four quadrants are the four different aspects into which we can...
Perfectionism starts very early in life. Our parents probably had fixed ideas about how we should speak, what we should wear, and what we should eat. Maybe they wanted us to be a banker or a priest or nurse. Maybe we were handed down a political point of view...
Has Your Life Gotten Off Track? Do you ever feel like your life is so far off track that you don’t know how you’ll ever get back on? Maybe you’ve lost your job, maybe you’re in recovery from an addiction that has cost you everything, maybe you have an...
I made a few changes and adaptations of some models and this is my version of four possible escalating levels of Consciousness. Many people never find their way out of a level and that’s OK because the universe/spirit/God has given us free-will to fall down and get back up...
Click here to see a presentation in Sedona Adyashanti said in a recent talk that some people are “big experiencers” and others are not but that neither was a determinant of a higher state of awakening. I found this reassuring since I have never been a “big” experiencer. My...
Meditation is a technique with the aim of realizing the ultimate (God-Awareness-Love-Reality-Spirit-Brahman-Atman-Buddhata-Tao-AinSof-Allah or whatever your idea of it is). Most meditators come to the practice in search of some version of Self-realization or spiritual realization. However, before full Self-realization (not just occasional experiences) happens, we need to traverse through...
The remaining posts of the Ten Principles are now available on Amazon as an ebook: After the Wrecking Ball: Ten Principles for Finding Peace Amidst Conflict by Lynn Fuentes
This was one I really needed to hear. To accept that we could be wrong means we have to take off the blinders, to let go of our tunnel vision, and to begin to accept into our consciousness the perspectives of others. It also means we accept our failings...
It was hard for me then in the fall of 1995 to trust in the basic goodness of the universe, even to accept that there was a divine purpose to it all that we may not understand. But over the years I learned many things about trust: that if...
Over a period of two years beginning with Thanksgiving 1995, ten guiding principles “dropped” into my mind accompanied by an electric ‘felt’ sense (a feeling I have sometimes that heightens my awareness and powers my body in some way) and a ‘knowing’ that these were absolutely true and very...