Affirmation Power Blog

I’ve been contemplating my eyelids for over 30 years. It’s been a marvelous journey. The simple act of closing my eyes and emptying the mind has been completely life-transforming. While the benefits of meditation are truly astounding, there are certain pitfalls to be aware of.
1 - Meditation as Escape
Meditation can be so enjoyable that one [...]

There’s a revolution going on.

Amy and I just got home from a 4 day Conscious Growth Workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas is somewhat of an incongruous place for conscious growth, but conscious growth can be realized no matter where you are. It was an intense period discovering one’s alignment with respect to Truth, [...]

Ask any neuroscientist - our brains generate electricity. Changes in the brain’s electrical impulses can be consciously self-generated. This is called operant conditioning.
When we choose to alter our thinking, we alter cortical rhythms as well as the brain’s structure. In essence, we become our attention.
If you want to do or have something different, you have [...]

As a coach, I’m in the business of helping people find solutions to their lives. I’ve found that it’s not uncommon for clients to know what they don’t want but few know what they do want.
They tell me how unhappy they are in their current jobs or lives but they are unwilling to invest the [...]

The other day my innovations coach asked me, “Out of all your varied interests, which bring you the most joy?” I had to stop and think. In fact I pondered on this for several weeks. I wrote extensively in my journal and I meditated about it.
Helping others grow, teaching meditation, writing inspiring songs, and playing [...]

It’s dawn and the world is waking up. Eyes open, still drunk from sleep, we stretch and prepare for the realities of the day. As day follows night, we move in tandem with the cycles of nature.
Birth and death, creation and destruction - these are the cycles of life. These cycles reveal themselves in nature, [...]

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. -Mother Teresa

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. -Mother Teresa

I was amazed in reading a review of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light that the saint from India had [...]

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.  ~William P. Merrill

Music was my full time career 6 nights a week for 14 years. I’ve also played over 1000 events, weddings and affairs, but last night was my first time playing a kirtan.
What is Kirtan?

Kirtan is one of the oldest sacred [...]

There is nowhere that God is not. We are units of pure Being, individualized, on a trajectory curving back toward Ourselves. Our purpose is to cease identification with limited mind, and to finally see who we really are. Going within, observing, and silently seeing with clarity and beyond all contradiction, that we are in essence [...]

I have been a spiritual seeker all of my life. I began practicing meditation twenty-five years ago because I wanted to become enlightened. After reading countless books I would spend long hours in meditation and self-inquiry. In the stillness and silence of meditation, a new understanding bubbled up and revealed who I really am — [...]