#267 – What part of you insists on suffering?Trying to answer this simple question will change everything in your experience.Yesterday, after listening to Michael A. Singer's book, The Untethered Soul, I attempted to answer this question in earnest f...

#266 – How did a Ghost become a Time Spirit?Yesterday, in my weekend retail job, I understood how a Ghost (mental creations that help us cope with fear and uncertainty in childhood) had become a Time Spirit (collective mental creations that help a gr...

#265 – What does Personal Power feel like?Positional Power is something you wear, like a high-top hat, or a red silk-and-gold mantle. It changes you in the eyes of others and hence, changes how others treat you.Personal Power comes from inside – it's...

#264 – When does feedback become desire to control?The ability to receive feedback is, experts say, a fundamental leadership skill.I agree. Yet sometimes, feedback more than intended for the receiver's growth, it's a set of instructions for how...

#263 – What role do you feel trapped in?Like any system, families have parts. In relationships, we refer to parts as "roles."Some roles are "outer" (father, older sibling, cook, handy-person), and some are "inner" (caregiver, trouble-maker, peace-kee...

#262 – What made you take ownership for random mishaps?Internalizers seek within to find what went wrong – externalizers blame the world. Which are you?Some time back, my husband proposed a thought exercise to understand more about my son's case. Sta...

#261 – When will the need to 'be right' trip you up?Who am I to decide what's right and what's wrong, anyway?On Sunday, coming back from my retail job, I found myself typing a long, detailed email to my supervisors. I was irritated because they'd tur...

#260 – How can radical respect improve your life?Speaking with my son yesterday, I said I didn't know what could make the prosecutor change his mind about the evidence, so he'd look at it with attention.My son responded, "he only needs to treat...

#259 – How did your Ghosts enter your mind?The Ghosts and the Ego are self-protective mechanisms we develop in childhood. We do it because, when we're little, the outside world is incomprehensible. To make sense of the apparent chaos, we turn to ours...

#258 – Did you believe the truth was obvious?I did. Perhaps naively, I assumed that the truth was one for everyone and that it presented itself without question.I believed that people of the law (namely judges and prosecutors) were immune to the...