Self-regulating your nervous system may be the best gift you can give yourself — In about six weeks, I’ll turn 50 years old. Born in 1972, the only child of Baby Boomers, I’m about as Gen X as it gets. Since I was a teenager, I’ve bounced between my individual spiritual quest and my zest for communing with artists of all stripes. I’ve met…

What I discovered from my daily meditation practice — This morning, like every morning for over a year, I started my day with my favorite habit, the one I never, ever miss. Over the last two years, I’ve deliberately cultivated good, mindful habits in a (successful!) last-ditch effort to save myself from my own shadow — literally. I Was Clueless I say…

The change wasn’t overnight, but I began to feel differences throughout my life rather quickly — There’s a sketch from MadTV that I think of a lot. A man & woman are seated at a restaurant, and the woman is, she insists loudly, not on a DIET, she’s on a LIVE IT. The woman, played brilliantly by Nicole Sullivan, is obviously hungry to the point of…

1.) I was born near the end of the Nixon administration — perhaps that’s what set me off on the wrong foot. It was a few days before Christmas in 1972 when I made my debut in Austin, Texas, the only child of my parents’ union and the only child…

A Tapping Spell to Calm Yourself — Here’s a quick spell/tapping script that I created to encourage inner peace. It’s quite easy. Simply tap with the fingertips of one or both hands at the following points on your body, speaking the corresponding affirmation at each point. Crown: Peaceful energy flows like water through my world Third eye…

Let Your Subconscious Know: There’s Enough to Go Around — Here’s a quick spell/tapping script that I created to encourage an abundance mindset. It’s quite easy. Simply tap with the fingertips of one or both hands at the following points on your body, speaking the corresponding affirmation at each point. Crown: The energy of abundance flows through my life with…

A Parable about How Things Got This Bad — Once upon a time, and for almost 200,000 years, we had one common language. Not just humans, but animals, trees, water, fire, rock, everything understood this language and communicated in it. That way of “knowing” that we attribute to animals? …

Do you have a mental happy place? — Whether you meditate regularly or not, you’ve probably been prompted at some point, maybe by a book or a teacher, to go to a tranquil spot in your mind. Did you have a mental spot ready to go? …

Eight high-vibe musical artists people should know — Do you like good music (I hope you read that in Arthur Conley’s voice!)? It’s a trick question, I know. Everybody likes good music, and everybody has a different idea about what constitutes good music. Like a lot of people, I LOVE music and I’m pretty specific about what…