The Commitment Experiment in San Clemente Begins

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” ~ Goethe Fall has always felt like a time of new beginnings to me. At The Center for Spiritual Living we are dedicating the month of October to recommiting to our spiritual practices, ourselves and our community.…

Blessing of the Animals in San Clemente

On Saturday I brought my dog to the Blessing of the Animals hosted by our Animal Ministry at the Center for Spiritual Living Capistrano Valley. The ceremony was held at Pines Park, a stunning location overlooking the Pacific under a canopy of pine trees. We opened with a beautiful group prayer delivered by Kathy Storey.…

Intuition Tapping Writing Meditation

Intuition  – the ability to acquire representation or knowledge about things, apparently without reasoning or usage of reason in general. ~ Wikipedia Sometimes I feel quite intuitive and at other times it feels like that part of the eye examination when the doctor is asking you to choose between lenses. A tool for transformation that I’ve…

Love Never Goes Away

It’s painful to lose someone we love so much. I wrote this after my Mother passed away. Since then I have watched my cousins lose their mother and a few more close friends. I never know what to say. But I do know that love never goes away. This January I visited my friend Mary.…

What Does Self Worth Look Like?

Steeped in my new awareness of Self Worth and I found some buried treasure this week. After this month of “Self Worth” being the theme of talks and blog posts and meditation how do I peel all this off the page and actually put it into my life. Where are the moments I need to…

Leaving a Legacy of Self Worth

Recently a friend shared an article entitled “When Your Mother Says She’s Fat.“ And I started to think about the power of our words, especially the words our children hear us say about ourselves. What if everything I said about myself became my daughter’s internal dialogue? Self worth is our theme this month and at…

Unconscious Beliefs and the Law of Attraction

Rampart! Rampart! Someone’s gotten into my subconscious and I can’t get them out! “You are going to end up being a garbage man!” my father yelled at the top of his voice. “Now sit down and focus! You won’t get into college if you can’t do the math. You will never be able to do what…