I had a session with a young man early in my career. He went home and told his mother, “Russell is a ‘Protestant Mystic’.” (tee hee). That is the first time I remember being called one. Mystic is one of those words that carry different meanings. A mystic is...
Have you ever been so focused on a goal, you never thought beyond reaching your target? A sudden change leads to the unexpected completion to a long-standing issue. You reached the end of a process with zero preparation toward what comes next. This seems to describe a common theme...
A person’s identity is a set of conditions, qualities, and beliefs that provide the make-up of an individual. Identities revolve around who you are and who you think you are. I had people tell me they could never see me as anything but a carpenter. This after I developed...
Masculine energy is expressed in one of three ways: positive, negative, or fake. To express positive masculine energy, I have to first honor my feelings. Before expressing with confidence, strength, and courage, I need to understand my emotions. Positive masculine expression is cultivated through meditation or looking deep within....
According to Edgar Cayce, we are an exact replica of our Universe. Each endocrine gland represents a planet in our Solar System. Our heart the center, or our sun. The stars represent soul patterns related to behavior, demeanor, and personality. The realms of each planet manifests physically as dwelling...
With the world at a tipping point, many of us are being asked to hold space for others. But what does that mean? Holding is retention. Space is the distance between other people or things that a person needs to remain comfortable. Holding space describes opening my heart for...
Now more than ever, we feel the pressure to be succinct. All the marketing gurus, motivational speaking coaches, website builders, and writer training courses are saying the same thing: You only have a few seconds to get someone’s attention, and even less time to hold onto their focus. Our...
When the whisper for the week comes into my awareness, I usually have some sort of reaction. Imagine mine when the whisper of the word dharma came through. The child part of me threw a bit of a tantrum (tee hee). You want me to write about the subject...
Abraham Maslow is an American psychologist best known for creating the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow created a system of organizing needs, using a pyramid shape to describe his model. The foundational needs are physiological. Food, shelter, clothing, warmth, rest, and basic human needs are basic needs for survival....
In his Collected Works, Carl Jung writes: “The trickster motif appears in the unsuspecting modern man whenever, in fact, he feels himself at the mercy of annoying accidents which thwart his will and his actions with apparently malicious intent.” Welcome to the perfect description of the Mercury Retrograde in...
