L - Loving Alternative This Weeks Video This is Part 3 in the blog series on HALE, one of the key mindfulness tools taught in The Centre...

Establishing Forgiveness as a Habit This Weeks Video Applying forgiveness to any situation that requires it, can be quite challenging. So, is it possible to have a consciousness of forgiveness that naturally, and easily flows when the circumstances demand it? Can conscious forgiveness become a habit? To form a habit, we have to regularly repeat in action, and/or thought, the thing we want to be habitual. To do that we first have to be motivated to want to do that. The regular

Pardon Wrong Doers This Weeks Video Come on! As if loving your enemies, blessing those who curse you, and doing good to those who hate you aren’t tough enough. Now I’m expected to pardon those who do me wrong? You’ve got to be kidding!! It seems that the world is full of people who are doing ‘wrong’. Mass shootings, war, environmental abuse, sexual abuse, and the list goes on. So this facet of forgiveness expects me to pardon these people? Really? Well, yes if you are wanting

Judge Not This Weeks Video “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (1) The word judge as a verb arose from words that typically meant “to form an opinion about”. More broadly speaking it meant to “make a decision, decide, think, suppose”. It can be extrapolated then that this aspect of forgiveness, which is about not judging, means; don’t form an opinion, don’t decide, think, or suppose. You could well be justified in asking, “Well what am I supposed to do?” In short, observe an

Bless Those Who Curse You This Weeks Video …and do good to them that hate you! This is the loving approach to life that was taught in the Sermon on the Mount, not an approach that endorsed crusades, the inquisitions, or the genocide of heretics. The patron saint of Lucca, in Italy, is Saint Zita. The story goes that at the age of twelve, Zita became a servant to the Fatinelli, a noble family of Lucca. In spite of many years of serious abuse by her ‘noble’ employers, as well a

Love Your Enemies This Weeks Video There is a saying that declares, “What you resist persists”. A resistive consciousness gives permission for what we resist to perpetuate. Mahatma Gandhi championed what he called satyagraha, what the West called passive resistance. Gandhi insisted it was more about love and firmness (non-violent) serving as a “synonym for force”. Inspired by Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You , Gandhi became an advocate for using non-resistance to o

If peace is your priority, then forgiveness will be your only function. This Weeks Video I know this may seem too simple, but the key to forgiveness is to fully understand that all human motive for how one thinks, behaves, and emotes is either driven by the desire to extend love, or is a call for help. That’s it! Just two core motives. When perceived from that context, there are only two responses to these two motives; gratitude for the love extended, or compassion for the su

Mindfulness and the Covid Freedom Rallies: Civil Resistance Approached with a Love Consciousness This Weeks Video Tomorrow I am going to...

Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted For Righteousness Sake As far back as Saint Augustine it was said that this Beatitude was an add-on....

Blessed Are The Pure In Heart The state of the heart was a fundamental focus of early religions. This was evidenced in the placement of...

Blessed Are The Merciful The thirteenth-century etymology of the word mercy meant having “a disposition to forgive or show compassion.”...

Step 6: Look for Opportunities to SERVE (BE KIND) The rationale for including service has been explained in Step 5. Along with gratitude,...

The 5 Principles of EAP Principle 5 – Transformation Happens Like a Ripple Across a Pond Almost every morning I sit on my balcony which...

When Self-Love Becomes the Path of Least Resistance You’ve created your self-loving alternative (SLA) vision for your life and you are...

What Our Personal Narrative has to do with Divorce We each have a personal narrative which emerged through our formative years, primarily...

A Life of Inner Peace In my last blog I wrote about gratitude and how it serves to reinforce a neural pathway of inner peace and healing....