Author Archives: carol

How To Keep Your Power

Power is attractive and enticing.  We all want to feel powerful, and we want others to see us as powerful.   This is as it should be.  Yet, we have an uncanny ability–habit?–to continually give our power away.  Humans have been handing over their power on a silver platter for thousands of years. Who do we give it to? From [...]
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Observe, Observe, & Observe Some More!

You can never do it enough. It will often bring surprises. Most times we hate to do it.  We’d rather create our own fantasies. We’d rather swim in the pool of our own beliefs, and wrap ourselves up in the cozy blanket of our own opinions. We’d rather be in denial.  We’d rather medicate. We’d [...]
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Why Are We Rushing?

As a former New Yorker, I understand the drive to rush. New Yorkers are always in a hurry.  And they walk fast.  I considered myself a successful New Yorker because I could outwalk almost anyone next to me.  I could cross the street faster, get to the bus stop quicker, dodge my way through a subway crowd [...]
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Life Without Judgment

We consume an enormous amount of energy judging others and judging ourselves. A day doesn’t go by when we do not pass judgment.  This is no accident.  We’re conditioned to judge. Judgment is encouraged because it oils the joints that support the status quo and the existing power structures. Like programmed robots, we dive daily and dutifully into [...]
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Breaking Free

Freedom is a great essence. It’s one of my favorites and probably ranks high on everyone’s list. Yet I wouldn’t say that being free is an easy state to achieve.  More often than not, I spend most of my time in the ‘breaking’ part of breaking free, the ‘trying to become free’ part. Perhaps it is [...]
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Torpedo Your Fantasies!

“Why”, you say, “should I get rid of my fantasies? I have spent many idle hours embellishing them.”   Then you add with a sorrowful glance to the ground, “Besides, they’re all I have these days.” AAh, if that were only true.  But alas, we humans are much more powerful than we’d like to admit, and with [...]
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The Human Animal

What makes us buckle under when we feel the pressure of fear? Survival fears have prompted homo-sapiens to make millions of out-of-power choices. For centuries we have reacted to fear by engaging in unreasonable and often horrific, animalistic acts of aggression and domination.  Why does our intelligence, our compassion, our common sense get thrown out the [...]
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Making Friends With Fear

The fact is, we can’t get rid of fear. Why? Because the earth dimension is marvelously designed as the perfect classroom in fear.  Our purpose in signing up for this class is to understand fear and overcome fear in this lifetime.   Take a look around at this classroom. Nowhere in the physical universe will you encounter [...]
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My Spirit Guides

The spirit world is not at all what I thought it was.  To my surprise, the spirit guides I work with are not all-knowing. They do not even know everything about me. That was my first shock. It flew directly in the face of the Santa Claus song I grew up with and took to [...]
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The House of Mirrors

When I was a young girl I lived near a large amusement park in Rye, New York.  It was old enough to still have a House of Mirrors, one of my favorite places to visit.  After paying my admission ticket, I would run up the weirdly lit yellow hallway to begin exploring the lopsided maze [...]
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