Rollo May, Ph.D. Psychologist, author of 15 books, including The Courage To Create,who along with Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow was a founder of humanistic psychology asks, “What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?” Fountainhead? That is a powerful word, defined not only as source, but [...]
"Escape the confines of STRESS!" So many of us live with prolonged stress, whether from pressures at work and/or home. Nevertheless, decisions that affect our future or that of others must be made, even while we are experiencing chronic stress. A study by researchers in Portugal published in the July 2012 issue of Translational Psychiatry [...]
What's your STORY?" Plato reminds us that we are beings in search of meaning. Relentlessly we pursue meaning in past, present and future anticipated events. Out of all of this we create a story. This is the story we live. What is the story that you are living now? How to detect your story? Listen [...]
"Create your NEW story" events locally in Colorado and world wide via ustream.com "Create your NEW Story" events will take place on new dates - Sept 18, Oct 16 and Nov 20, Wednesdays 5:30 pm to 7 pm at a new location, The Executive Center, 123 North College Ave in Fort Collins CO -in person [...]
"A KEY to...!" Imagine you have access to a “key” that unlocks something you want. It could be a state of mind, such as serenity or resiliency or an insight about resolving a difficult situation. To find the key we must look for it. Often it is just out of reach of ordinary consciousness. [...]
Sometimes the ordinariness of life’s façade drops away. In this space revealed behind the scenes, between the words, life looms large. In this space we seem to touch the essence of it all. Here we experience life directly and recognize the energy of pure existence. In the moment we sense all moments. How rare this [...]
Create harmony! Albert Camus, the French Nobel prize winning author, asks, “… What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man in the life he leads?” We yearn for happiness and harmony. Yet the majority of us fail to take time to explore how to create harmony in our lives and our work! What [...]
Expand your experience! Most of us blindly live within our long established patterns of thinking and behaving, day after day, every day. One day, we wonder why there is so little wonder and joy in our lives. Gabrielle Roth, an American dancer and musician, tells us that "In many shamanic societies, if you came toa [...]
Fear stops most of us, at one time or another, from taking advantage of an opportunity to grow and be more. Usually this occurs when we are seeking to expand the view that we have of ourselves, our world and/or the level of our consciousness. Fear attempts to protect us. Rather than berating ourselves we [...]