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Hey! I’m back from Winterberg, knocking off a quick catch-up since I don’t have my usual weeklong lead time on this newsletter. I want to tell you so much about the last 10 days. I screamed. I cried. I felt torn apart. I laughed. I loved that I did it. All of it was worth throughout the ten days: >> the Catapult Launch>> the elevated Dark Ride Curve >>the Heartline Roll, and >> ending into the grand finale of the Giga Coaster... Often this is how we feel when we work on ourselves. When you’re...

What I'm Learning From Cruising Through The Seven Teal Tides. By the time this email lands in your inbox, I’ll be cruising through the Seven Teal Tides. Depending on what time you open it, I’m either on deck-swabbing duties, surreptitiously taking a quick swig from the rum flask, scanning below deck with a spyglass, or sharpen my sword -- shhhk -- shhhk -- shhhk to fight vile and dissolute creatures in the Unfathomed Deep. Unofficially, I’m sailing with a Pirate Lord named Crook 'Relentless'...

Let's Talk About What Happened With All Those New Year's Resolutions Okay, those intentions for all the changes you had planned out for the New Year might have proven to still be a challenging task. Let's just name it. Aren’t people to be envied who do not feel angst about the unknown change? Who have those lightning bolt change moments, those sparks of inspiration, where they can adopt this new habit or quit an old one, sometimes even with little effort or resistance? What an experience 🙋⚡...

What To Do With Our Existential Dread As The Challenges Keep Spreading Out My brain tries to make reason with the inferno of information that comes my way from every corner, non-stop. It’s an automatic process, not something I notice consciously, but it makes my patterns of the consciousness do their job, save me energy, make processes smooth and quick, simply: Have everything under control to fulfill their purpose of instinct and survival, with ONE MISSION: Keeping me safe. Except when they...

Let's Talk About 'Unfounded Suspicion' I have a classy problem which is too many patterns to pick from and then to work on. In last year's November retreat we’ve been diving deep into two fundamental patterns of the consciousness, the Pattern of Unfounded Suspicion and Negativity. Having 10 fundamental patterns and 20 behavioral patterns is a whole lot of 'patterns’' considering that these are the ones in Yuan Qigong Life Cultivation we focus on. There are of course thousands of thousands of...

This is going to sound hokey but stick with me: I have a secret for change. It’s one of the biggest secrets in Life Cultivation (if there are any at all). I don’t hear anyone talking about it much, or coming close to revealing it, not even from lips loosened with wine or champagne 🍷🍸. For serious. RU READY???? . . . I’m about to say it, so you’d better stop scrolling right now if you don’t like to hear it ;) . . . Okay, here goes. This is going to light your brain on fire so be ready. . . ....

Hey hoo, HAPPY 2025 🥂 Rounded the corner to the new year and I’ve been wracking my brain to think of any excuse to talk about life cultivation. How about I just talk and I share what a life cultivator should consider for the story of change to become reality, and we’ll work from there? To fully appreciate this, you’ve gotta know that I have started a fiction writing course by the end of 2024, and that I was the classic "I don’t know what to write" kid who was at a loss for ideas to come up...