Channelling The Way

There is a common theme or question that arises in the conversations I have with most people that are looking for coaching, guidance, mentorship, and healing. The question is “why is this happening to me?” and the theme is that they feel they are at the effect of the circumstances around them, and they want to change them. Even in its most subtle form, this is a victim mentality, and is a dynamic of helplessness and powerlessness. When people earnestly seek change from this p

When we open the door from our side, it thus remains open, unless we reclose it. Honesty is a recurring and prevalent spiritual principle in recovery. It is the basis of the program but its power extends far beyond keeping the spiritual malady contained. I witnessed this firsthand, as I continually tried to enter the path of sobriety but repeatedly failed. I learned that honesty was the first step at recovery but my mind was so distorted by my conditioned belief systems that

“It is hard for you to look at your own repressed pain. It is hard for society to look at the pain of its outcasts. But this must be done. Everybody lives in a prison of reactivity until the wound is made conscious. It is not just the criminal who is behind bars. The men and women who put him there live behind different bars. If you don’t bring your unconscious material into awareness it will express on its own distorted terms. If you don’t work intentionally with the crimina

Change is an unavoidable fact of life, in fact change is the only constant in life, but it can be a source of deep discomfort and resistance. Imagine that moment where we state a personal declaration to ourselves. We announce our commitment to change an aspect of our lives. It could be the time we wake up in the morning, a new health routine or spending less time at work. We may follow through with our new plan, but suddenly we slip back into our past behaviours. What seems l

There is a door to love’s presence. Having an open mind and an open heart opens the door to love. But this door also closes, and when it closes, it is calling you to open it again because that is the process required to deepen our love. When it closes, we need to be patient, forgiving and courageous if we want the door to open again. To truly live from a place of unconditional love, we must not only feel love's presence, but its absence, because love’s absence is the teacher.

“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.” - Eckhart Tolle Sigmund Freud explains that the ego is, “t hat part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.” The id being the unconscious instinctual component of personality. According to Freud, our ego operates by attempting to satisfy our instinctual desires and pleasures

Jung identified evil, among other things, as an “archetype” – a universal thought form of humanity that influenced human perception and experience through informational fields like a living entity. Native Americans coined the term “wetiko" to describe a mind-virus that operates through our psychological blind-spots. Both are pointing to a spell that humanity casts on itself, at both a personal and transpersonal level, that is literally akin to hypnotizing ourselves in our own

Join coach Chris as he explores the map of consciousness by David R. Hawkins in his book "Power vs. Force". Chris explains how the map was constructed, its practical application, its transformative abilities and more.

I was recently listening to a podcast which was exploring the process of letting go of our beliefs and changing our mind frame. It can be logically explained as an easy process in which we remove old beliefs and create new ones, but there is the phase after removal that the individual is left with a blank slate. There becomes an empty space which can become an overwhelming period of fear, unknown and uncertainty. I recognize this period, and I’m also perplexed by it. In my ow

Through our observation and experience we acknowledge that “evil” exists in both personal and transpersonal forms. In general, most of us see evil as something outside of ourselves. Jung, in his work, identified evil, among other things, as an “archetype” – the most ancient and universal thought forms of humanity that influence human perception and experience through informational fields akin to a living entity. Hence, Jung suggests that evil is not outside of us but hides in

“SOMETHING EMERGING OUT OF NOTHING: This is the miracle of creation itself, and you are an important part of that miracle! In a place of non-resistance, curiosity, deep inner permission, you become a channel for true creativity. You bring something new into this world, something never seen before. And this process has nothing to do with ego, with mind, or even with “me”…” . – Jeff Foster As I sit here and try to write this blog, I am overcome with a feeling of being blocked f

Whether it is a part of the general human condition, or the conditioning of our materialistic oriented society I am not sure of, but humans appear to be programmed to seek pleasure and avoid pain. My best guess is we have a primal instinct of self-preservation that orients us in these directions on the physical plane, but our societal conditioning maps this onto our emotional and mental plane too. Our survival instincts steer us away from physical pain and when we experience

“No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus.” - Rick Rubin Rick Rubin is a creative genius and music producer. His philosophy of unleashing our inner creative potential is explored in his book “The Creative Act: A Way of Being”. I will delve into a few of his concepts and ideas. Creativity can apply to all areas of our life, even our thinking and decision making. It could be the abil

“We are caught in psychological time as the memory of the past and the hope for the future. We don’t know what it is to live totally now. Now is life, not behind or ahead.” - Jidu Krishnamurti Krishnamurti was a philosopher and not a physicist, but through the lens of our most advanced, and to date, irrefutable understanding of the quantum world we understand there is considerable overlap between those two roles. That is, one needs to be both a physicist and meta physicist

Chris and Nikki will delve into a few questions regarding the Four Levels of Engagement. "Why is the Four Levels of Engagement such a powerful coaching tool?" "How to move past the drama and situation levels?" "Why do the majority of humans live within drama and situation if there is an option to move beyond it?"

“Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.” - Carl Jung Recently, I was talking to a friend about a few recent synchronicities that had occurred in our lives. These moments where a litany of variables had to occur at a particular time or particular sequence in order from them to transpire. They made us wonder - do these synchronicities seem to happen more frequently as we become more aware? Or have they been happening all along and we haven’t no

Our society is structured on lying. Granted that not all lies are the same, and maybe we can call some mistruths or withholding to be charitable. But lying is completely normalized and even institutionalized from the top down. For example, we have come to expect that our politicians and other non-elected leaders will lie to us as part of normal course. We even observe them getting caught lying under oath, or in the face of indisputable contrary evidence - there are rarely any

In this episode of Creative Status, I had a deep conversation about the process of TRANSFORMATION with kundalini yoga teacher and life coach Chris Kalbfleisch. If you don't know, Kundalini is the most ancient form of yoga and is a technology for merging your nature with the transcendent/divinity so you can reclaim your natural connection to WHOLENESS. This place of wholeness is where creativity takes place and comes from and so this is a ridiculously powerful approach to tran

It seems the catalyst to many spiritual awakenings is pain, suffering and despair. The dark night of the soul event, where our will power or persona (identity) could no longer withstand the discomfort of our existence and we are left in confusion or helplessness. It is my experience that these periods of darkness and despair are actually monumental gifts that are disguised. As Mooji explains, “If we have a strong conviction in personhood, then the attraction to come into the