Energy. Just typing it makes me think that either you will assume this is an article on global warming and how we use energy, or it is some sort of chakra west coast infected philosophy coming into play. It is neither. Energy is something we are all putting out all the time. Energy is the…
“My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items I notice shape my mind.” Pioneering psychologist William James I am struck by his focus on MY and I. Not ‘they’ or ‘it’ or ‘them’. My experience of good or bad, happy or sad is dictated by what I attend to. What I…
On day 12 of a 30 day challenge of Bikram yoga, it isn’t so much the 102 F heat, or the rule you can only breath through your nose, or even that you can’t have any water until after the warm up poses are done that is most difficult. It is managing your monkey mind…
I’m lying on my soaking wet towel after 90 grueling minutes of Bikram yoga. Hot yoga it’s called. They’re not kidding. 26 poses in a row in 102-degree heat. The room is small and we are packed in like Macys’ on Boxing Day plus it smells like high school gym class. I’m exhausted by now…
If the latest Oprah magazine is any sign, and you and I know it is, summer is all about reading. The beach read. Paperbacks, potboilers, or the books you haven’t made time for yet. The lazy hazy days of summer are lifes’ invitation to crack a binding or two. In this blogs history I have…
I start but I can’t finish! I want to practice my singing. I want to make a new audition package for opera work. I want to contact orchestra conductors too and develop my concert career. I even have a conductor to contact and I have his card in my hand. Day after day, I do…
When you go into an audition what are you looking for from the panel? Do you hope to be hired? Do you want them to like you? Do you wish to impress? Sing your best? All things I have thought on many occasions. Have you thought that if you just want it enough you can…
