In this business of living, on a daily basis, each of us goes head to head with the tapes within our minds that love to run and run and run, telling us we're too old, too fat, not educated enough, not handsome or pretty enough, too poor etc.

A few months ago my wife and I had the great fortune to experience a ropesü-course. If you're not familiar with what that is, it is a course set outdoors designed to push you up against your beliefs about your capabilities, assist you in meeting your fears head-on, and to reflect back to you how you live your life. From walking on cables, to leaping off of trees from twenty-five feet in the air(harnessed of course), to finding my way through the forest blindfolded, I got to see myself from a new perspective and I became intimate with the power of trust.

Whether you use the word soul or heart or spirit, the inference is the same. It is that part of our human self that gives us life here in the body. It is the unseen part of us that the material world has shadowed over - until now. The veil is lifting. The soulful side of life, the heart side of life is beginning to take center stage and the question for you is, "is it taking center stage within me?"

What is a depression? No, not what is depression but what is a depression?

A depression is a hollowing out of a somewhat smooth surface. The bottom of the depression is below the surface of the main surface. A depression in a road could be called a pothole or a rut and can cause serious damage to a vehicle's alignment. A depression out in the desert has the potential of saving a life if it were to collect rain water. I once had a depression in a muscle indicating a process of atrophying taking place. So a depression can be dangerous, can be beneficial, and can be a valuable warning to take some action.

If you're familiar with the principals of feng shui, then you know how important it is to eliminate non essential items from your living environment. Items that are broken, not needed, and not useful should ideally be thrown away, donated or sold.

Their is a propensity in our society to focus upon that part of life that we want to disappear, are afraid of or what we hate. The list is long: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, The Fight Against Cancer, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Association Against Bulimia and Anorexia, The War Against Poverty, Bullying etc. etc.. Has the "fight against" any of these things erased them from existence? Are there fewer drunk drivers? Are there fewer people living in poverty?

In my work with supporting people in making changes, usually very big changes, it is not uncommon that among those changes desired is to lose weight. Although weight-loss is not my "specialty," guiding people in making choices from a new self image is my specialty and whether the change is to earn more money or lose more weight the recipe for success is the same.