We humans hate to say “I don’t know.” Maybe it’s the echo of getting called on in class and not having the answer? As a result, we convince ourselves that we know, especially when we don’t. The term “right fighting” describes the type of communication in which no one listens, but everyone is embedded in defending their point of view. We may as well walk through a mine field with a blindfold on. (Boom!) Truth is different than knowledge. Eve discovered that fact when she

More than ever, we are pulled into the area outside of our skin with high levels of stimulation and distraction. Bombarded with seductive and interesting energy, the more subtle, internal voices are drowned out. The complex biological being upon which our heads sit has a voice. Its messages are drowned out by the “louder” stimuli that bombard our eyes, ears, taste buds and noses. Our body connection, our sense of material being, connects us to every other form. The fact tha

It’s Spring and the Earth is awakening under our feet as it responds to the warming rays of the Sun. In the human world paying attention to someone has the same effect on a person that the Sun’s rays have on the Earth. There is nothing more welcoming than someone who really listens. Active listening is an art. It involves not thinking of the next thing you’re going to say, planning tonight’s meal, or judging the person talking for having spinach in their teeth. In short,