by Gizelle | May 20, 2018 | Inner Knowing/Wisdom, Self-Awareness
Many people look forward to sleeping as a way to gain relief from stress or worry or feelings of powerlessness, anxiety, and hopelessness. Others seek similar relief through addictions – use of chemicals or other activities that allow them to fantasize or create the...
by Gizelle | May 13, 2018 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
I remember years ago attending an art class where my teacher instructed us to draw ‘negative space.’ Instead of focusing on the object or the scene, we were asked to focus on the space around and in between the objects, then draw those shapes. We were encouraged to...
by Gizelle | May 6, 2018 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
I had a mentor ask me this question about 30 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it! Of course I wanted to be RIGHT! I had to be RIGHT, my life (so my ego thought) depended on being RIGHT! I was terrified of being wrong, of making a mistake, of being found out. ...
by Gizelle | Apr 29, 2018 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Perhaps the simplest way to think of this is to imagine that you are peering through your eyes through the opening of a cave, and in that peering you see starlight, shooting stars, comets, or moving beings. It is as though you are observing reality, taking it all in,...
by Gizelle | Mar 18, 2018 | Open Hearts & Open Minds, Relationships
I find it funny to think about how ‘white noise’ machines got their name, how unlike ‘white’ they are. White contains the full spectrum of light (all the colors of the rainbow and more), by contrast ‘white noise’ seeks to obliterate the...
by Gizelle | Mar 4, 2018 | Connection, Relationships
Love is a puzzling word – we have so many associations in our culture with Love, and by virtue of those associations, many limitations that are placed on that word. If we lived in another country (say Italy, France, Spain, or Latin America) we would discover that...
by Gizelle | Feb 4, 2018 | Connection, Relationships
A number of years ago I went to a gallery opening of a friend’s exhibition. As I walked through the gallery I alternated between the desire to share with a close friend my experience or to stand in silence to feel — such amazing work. Everything was so rich...
by Gizelle | Jan 28, 2018 | Explore Life, Life in Balance, This Moment -- Now
At times I freak out and wonder what I’ll do without a 401K that will fully support me, especially as I grow older and grayer. But then I remind myself, people lived for thousands of years without a 401K. Fate and my Soul have conspired to put me on the road less...
by Gizelle | Jan 14, 2018 | Open Hearts & Open Minds, Relationships
I no longer need (nor want) to ‘figure’ people out, or help them to ‘figure’ themselves out. It’s not about what we know; it’s about what we feel, and where this leads us in the world (inner and outer). Every person is a whole Universe unto themselves – I find...
by Gizelle | Dec 10, 2017 | Connection, Relationships
A friend of mine once told me she believes that whenever we think of someone, they are thinking of us at the same time — like a prayer between Souls. I wonder if it is similar to the principle of superposition — where the quantum wavefunction of a single...
by Gizelle | Dec 3, 2017 | Free Choice, Self-Awareness
How would it be to make a pact with ourselves to be absolutely honest in the moment, to say what we are feeling, no matter how we judge it or fear we may be judged? This is our stretching place — to tell the truth, even if it does change from moment to moment,...
by Gizelle | Jul 16, 2017 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Living Life from the “Outside In” is to live Life as part of the whirlwind. There might be momentary pauses, when the wind stops whirling, allowing us to identify experiences or events as pieces of the puzzle that comprise the whirl of our life. Yet living life from...
by Gizelle | Oct 16, 2016 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
In the past I was plagued by a need to engage in mild combat with others about nothing and anything, which was often reflective of my inner state. I would get caught in the web of seeking power through defensiveness, rather than being empowered through slowing down,...
by Gizelle | Jul 23, 2016 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
Staying in the Center may at times feel we are disconnected from our sense of self, from the world, from our purpose in Life. We may even judge ourselves as being uncaring or unsupportive of others in our Life. Yet, we become part of something unknown and unplanned,...
