Some of the mandalas I’ve made are simply creative visual explorations without much deep pondering, and others are more thought provoking and soul stirring. This morning evoked an inquiry I’m still working with 50+ mandalas later.

Something keeps calling the next Mandala into being; a mysterious, emergent something that’s revealing itself in the making and sharing of them. It feels like learning a secret code to decipher messages from the natural world.

It’s up to you to bring your dinosaur. It’s up to life to get it where it needs to be.

Listen in for tips on becoming a master in the art and practice of tuning in to your curiosity, trusting your inner compass and staying connected to possibility when things go sideways. When you open to the adventure that your life is - struggle becomes a thing of the past.

If you’re going back and forth with a decision, your brain is likely on overdrive and starting to smoke. You need to move some of that powerful life force down into your body.

We get to decide what matters most: creating with life as it becomes the next thing, or clinging to the safety of the known.

Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not here.

Turns out what’s ‘real’ vs. ‘what’s made up by the mind’ isn't a one-or-the-other thing. They’re inseparable and highly interactive. That changes everything.

It’s one thing to know you’re caught in the energy of struggle, and a whole other deal to stop bucking against it.

We’re more in charge of our state than we believe, but first we have to understand why our sense of well-being is constantly shifting and changing.

Magic isn’t bound by the physical world, and it won’t be limited to one plane. It just keeps inviting us to open to wider perceptions and greater possibilities.

Downgrading magic for certainty is a crappy strategy.

Receiving isn’t getting what you want, or taking what’s being given. It's aligning and partnering with what’s here.

One of the most challenging things to settle with is the idea that the things we love will end.

Here’s a map to track magic when you’re getting tangled up in the struggle of resistance.

21 years ago, the only thing I hated more than waking up in the shame storm of a raging hangover was the idea of quitting drinking.

How can you be both—curious and unattached to the answer?

We scare ourselves by choosing to experience time as a finite commodity. What if it’s not?

Lily took off switchbacking across the slope, fearlessly disappearing into the darkness, the tiny beacon of light on her harness dimming in the distance and then re-emerging as she charged back at top speed.

When we choose to be in a yes relationship with life, we become yes ninjas, fluid and agile, living in connection with our experience instead of trying to deflect or transcend it.