Sure, we know play is a necessary part of our lives: it relieves stress, adds balance, and inspires creativity. But we’re usually so busy with ‘life’ that we simply ignore it. Three things lately reminded me about the importance of play: an orca superpod off Alki Point in October, the Rainbow Boys’ guide team, […]
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When Play Matters: On Orcas, Marshmallow Spines, and Dogs Singing to Beethoven
Becoming Our Best Selves
“What am I supposed to do?” is a question I hear a lot in my intuitive practice. A more challenging question is: “How do I become my best self?” This melds the search for identity and meaning with the practical, emotional, mystical, and, yes, fun aspects of our personal and professional lives. The best thing? […]
How To Be a Watermelon Intuitive
Relaxing is one of the best ways to tap your intuition. No pressure, no anxiety, nothing but a bit of time to play. Sounds like August, right? So try this. Get a watermelon. Yes, a watermelon. Take it outside and explore it: look, touch, smell, taste, thump it (hear it). Get messy with watermelon: experience it […]
Demystiying Intuition: How to Be a Survivor
(c) 2011 Danny L. McMillin We are all intuitive. I teach this by explaining that there were once two branches of humans: one was intuitive, and the other got eaten. So relax, you are a survivor. Or, at least, you’re descended from survivors. Improve your odds of staying that way by learning to tap […]
Why You Need to Tap Your Intuition
Helping people tap into their own plain, ordinary, everyday intuitive awareness is central to my work: how to live graceful, vibrant, successful lives by tapping our intuition. I teach this by jumping right into what some people call the woo-wooey: yep, when I teach my classes or work privately, we have goddesses and guides, deceased […]
Cloning Dogs: Grief Doesn’t Make It Work
Would I clone this dog? In a heartbeat—if it worked. But it doesn’t. At any price. Cloning our animal companions is in the news these days, stories of people paying upwards of $150,000 to clone their deceased dog or cat. I just sigh. What are these people thinking? Actually, I know what they’re thinking. They’re […]
Connecting to Other: Meeting Fallon
When people come to meet me and Fallon, they want to know what he is. Fair enough. Fallon is a Citrine Lemurian Quartz. He’s ancient: I remember carving him out of the crystal caves at his direction thousands of years ago. We worked together for lifetimes, got separated, and were finally reunited in 2009. Woo-wooey […]
My Dog Is Dying: The Real Life Crappy Choice Diary, Entry 18
As my beloved dog, Murphy, and I walked the mystery together—her dying and her death—I marveled at how much my life had changed in the nearly 14 years we shared. I used to think people like I am today were impossibly woo-wooey. Were crystal-loving, freakily dressed hippies who believed in weird mystical things, like reincarnation […]
My Dog Is Dying: The Real Life Crappy Choice Diary, Entry 16
How do we walk that last mystery of life with our beloved animal companions? How does the human-animal bond end? I write this as our mystery is over: I lost my dying dog, my beloved Murphy, on March 8, 2012. I continue with our diary because her life ran out before our story did, and […]