Wednesday, July 27, 2005

I am enjoying these long summer evenings catching up on my reading. I just waded into "The Ancestral Mind" by Dr. Gregg Jacobs, and it is an interesting read.

After 25 years of clinical research Dr. Jacobs believes that much of our inability to secure true peace and contentment is due to the compulsive analysis, judging, and comparing activities of our "Thinking Mind", which gets in the way of our more intuitive "Ancestral" mind.

Dr. Jacobs' research shows that if we can just find the way to routinely slow down or shut off the Thinking Mind, (relaxation techniques, meditation, etc.) we will connect with far more of the natural joy of living.

This finding supports everything I have experienced in my coaching work, and is in alignment with every spiritual tradition I have studied.

It's nice to see science catching up with life.

Enjoy the moment.


Steve

www.acoach4u.com

Monday, July 11, 2005

Puppies and Enlightenment

Masters have described enlightenment as nothing more than being exactly who you are, right now and at every moment, without pretence, guilt or the least apprehension. By that definition, my new puppy is the most enlightened soul I have ever come across. Eight weeks old, a cute as a button yellow lab, completely in the moment, Wyatt displays unabashed joy one second, and falls fast asleep the next. Irrepressible, his unique personality is constantly emerging, creating mischievous moments from the simplest of props.

He is a great teacher of living fully in the moment.

Steve

www.acoach4u.com

Saturday, July 02, 2005

How Is Your Negative Capability

In 1817 poet John Keats wrote of his insight into a special quality processed by those great souls who plumb life’s full depths:

“at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”

It is a gift to be able to sit with the mysterious, dark and unresolved parts of our life. They are the door through which our breakthroughs lie.

Steve www.acoach4u.com