To allow your awareness to float down into your being, below the level of mental activity, to connect with your grounded belly and your spacious heart, to then take in with fresh eyes who or what is here? Then to give yourself the experience of simply being with what is capturing your attention? Each of…
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Making Room for Your Inner Authority
While it’s not something talked openly about in “polite” conversations, here’s one thing that everyone in the world has in common-the inner critic. It is found in every hard-held opinion and judgment, in every comparison, in the loud inner voice or the nearly inaudible buzz that fills up inner space. Its effect is felt on…
Is the Critic Having Its Way With You?
I was recently listening to a TV interview with a young and now popular star of several blow-out films. When asked about her most recent cinema experience, she replied with the usual enthusiasm for the cast and director. There was just one caveat. The casting, she emphasized, was perfect except for one person — her….
Patterns of the Personality
After a coaching session, a client remarked that she had experienced what she called spiritual chiropractic during our work. She said that her body had an internal shift, an energetic release as she recognized and relaxed around a long-held pattern of anticipating the worst outcome in most situations. Another client had an internal shift around…
How Do We Know Ourselves?
This weekend, my husband and I attended a rather tongue-in-cheek “Hollywood’ party where costumes were encouraged. We decided to go for it, and assumed the identities of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. We had a great time meeting other movie characters in their regalia. What made some of the characters more believable was not only…
It’s a Journey of a Lifetime
My name is Roxanne Howe-Murphy. By way of introduction to this blog about this astonishing human journey that we are on, and how we might come into a deeply healed relationship with ourselves, I wanted to share a few thoughts about my own journey. I grew up on a small farm just on the outskirts…