1- Choose transaction partners who love what they do, and are both happy and passionate about their work. This includes the cook who makes your food, your kids’ school teachers, your dentist, your car mechanic, and your airplane pilot. 2 – Choose transaction partners with a sense of humour. Outsource if humour is scarce in … Read more
I wonder how our intimate relationships would shape up if we invested in them the time, effort and wisdom we invest in training our dogs. Take recall, for example. This has been one of the top challenges for me with Tilly, and I learned that: – If I chase her, she’ll run farther away from … Read more
A favour to Embodied Wisdom Favouring spontaneous movement over movement with form these days. It puts me in touch with my own embodied wisdom. I start moving while in bed, with slow, soft rotations and waves and gentle, inaudible breath. Breathing without making sound is taking me some focus because I’m undoing an old habit … Read more
A hardening Jewish religion talks about “klipot” (shells), a sort of hardening that takes place when one sees things that they shouldn’t see. The klipot impairs one’s sensitivity and ability to conduce divine light. It is said that once formed, klipot cannot be removed – but I could be mistaken. This is why religious Jews … Read more
Your regard for others remains registered in your body and energy field. Twenty years ago I met a young Argentinian rabbi who was said to do “psychic surgery”, although he didn’t want to call it that, whatever he was doing. I didn’t understand what he did. I stood up facing him while he passed his … Read more
August 31st, 1999, Ashdod, Israel From Banker to Healer My last day of work at the bank, and my last day of holistic reflexology class. I was getting married, moving to Canada. And was changing professions, from banker to healer. Walking barefoot, at home, I absentmindedly turned a sharp corner and caught my little toe in … Read more
There are three fundamental conditions necessary to connect with other people: 1: Genuine interest 2: Transparency 3: Integrity 1 – Interest Without a genuine interest in the other person, there cannot be a connection. There can be transactions, agreements, arrangements but no real, emotional, human connection. Being curious about each other, and inquiring into each … Read more
– Purpose – Hope – Vision The purpose is your “Why”. Some years ago I faced mortality on a cold steel hospital table and found that more than fearing death, I feared not having a strong enough reason to want to live. I was in the middle of a “dark night of the soul” and … Read more
Saying that someone is humourless because they don’t laugh at your insulting sarcasm is like telling someone who is rejecting unwanted sexual advances that they’re frigid. Humour is form, and as such, it’s a delivery system for any content, be it intended to attack or to support, to divide or to connect, to establish one’s … Read more
He is a tall, lean man in his seventies, walking a tiny brown short-haired dog. He walks leading with his head, his whole body looking like a moving question mark. The first time I saw him was a warm fall evening. Carmen, my Golden Retriever rescue girl went to greet the little dog, as she … Read more
