Tag: love

My Surfing Dream: Riding the Way of the Cutting Edge

So a few nights I had a surfing dream the details were not really that clear to me other than I was with my best friend growing up, we were at beach that was like the beaches of my childhood in southern California, and I loved being in the water waiting for the next wave. …

The Hurt Code: Door Opener to Loving What You Do

For the longest time my presenting negative emotion was grief, especially after the untimely death of my daughter two years ago. Grief is such a challenging emotion to deal with, primarily because when it strikes, it takes your energy down. You feel depressed. It is no wonder that anti-depressants have been so easily prescribed by …

The Code of Envy: Killer of Relationships/Door to Intimacy

Before we go too far into understanding about envy, we first have to differentiate it from jealousy, because even the dictionary has it wrong (at least in my understanding). It is useful to have a clear distinction.  Envy is the emotion you feel when you desire an end state, hope that it will happen, but then do not …

The Fallacy of Going for Love and Affection: Why We Should Go for Playfulness

Many of the people I get dreams from or work with in counseling sessions suffer from a kind of internal obsession, which I have had myself at times in my life, that believes that if we only have love and affection from someone, then our lives would really work and we would somehow my whole.     …

How We Are Going to Achieve World Peace

Act in accordance with the counsels of the Lord: that is, rise up in such wise, and with such qualities, as to endow the body of this world with a living soul, and to bring this young child, humanity, to the stage of adulthood. So far as ye are able, ignite a candle of love …