I have to say that I had a great time this last weekend in Salt Lake City! Good people with lot’s of appetite to learn and grow…kind of like a garden. I look forward to returning there…below is a photo of the Healer Training - Level 1 class.

The greenhouse is lush (tomato plants to the ceiling) and the garden is catching up, much food to eat and too few mouths to feed. It looks like my neighbors will be eating lots of salad the next few months. Also the master gardener, Bobbie, will have food to sell at the local farmers markets. Life is good on the farm!

I have been transplanting some native tobacco plants in my garden in NM tonight. I do a few more touch ups around here tomorrow. I’ll take some pictures of the garden and greenhouse. Do a few more small projects, then head back to LA tomorrow night. Racking up the SW constant flyer credits. I hate to leave NM after being here for only 2.5 days, nevertheless LA beckons. I have to get back there and take care of my daughter and get ready for my trip up to the Pacific Northwest. I’m excited to visit Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Ashland, and Mountain View. All great cities with some amazing bookstores and healing/spiritual communities. These couple of days in NM have gotten me grounded and recharged, of course I’d love to stay longer but work calls, so off I go. I’ll take the pictures in the morning. Love, David

I have been incredibly energetically busy this year, much of the time with too many activities. In this process I am having to be more careful with my energy and focus. I am having to make conscious time to take care of myself. As I go further out into the world with my spirit, creativity and passion there are heightened challenges as well as opportunities. It’s easy to realize I am not in “Kansas anymore” - Kentucky, New Mexico or Los Angeles for that matter. I am stretching around the planet and Universe with the healing message in the power of love. I am continuously amazed at the way people say they want to heal and grow, but yet create ways to defer loving themselves. I am encouraged by the appetite and desire to learn I am witnessing from the participants of the Memorial Day retreat in NM. I see the message penetrating deeply into people’s reality. The encouragement continues about the process, struggle and development around self-love. It is not a one-time exercise exploration, it is a continuous moment to moment choice.

I am enjoying the many others spreading the message of self-love.

Life is good! Love, David

Duplicity, contradiction and irony are often present in life as we live it. How can one not be disturbed by the oil spreading into the Gulf of Mexico right now? What do we do? Should we be upset @ BP, oil companies, our government’s permitting agency MMS, ourselves, and even the oil rig that blew up? Do we need to blame or do we meditate and pray for the leak to be plugged? And even further when this situation blows over how long does it take for us to forget about this disaster? Even more ironical - what would we feel and do if gas prices rose to $5 - 6 per gallon? Would we say, “Drill baby drill?”

We are all the creators of this situation and all the pollution happening on Mother Earth. We can blame the companies and the powers that be, but truly as the consumers we are dictating the business of supply and demand. As human’s we have figured out ways to use natural resources to move faster and do more than our ancestors. Very few of us are interested in going back to more simple ways of being; therefore, how do we come together to collectively take responsibility for the tracks we make on the earth? How do we focus our incredible powers to heal the situations we have created? How do we use the power of our spirits and the power of love to dis-create the out of balance situations all around us?

As leaders, teachers, healers and artists it is our job to create messages that move humanity forward in consciousness and intent. It is time to tell stories about unity and demonstrating choices of coming together harmonizing and healing instead of blame, distraction and destruction. Somewhere in all of this we have to step up and use our gifts.

On my morning bike rides I am meditating, praying and seeing the healing of this deep water oil spout taking place. I am visualizing it sealed and the water clearing for the many hundreds of miles around it. Acknowledging and encouraging the power of nature, the earth, the ocean and humanity to synchronize and work together. Knowing the power of Mother Nature is unlimited, and it is exponentially more powerful with our attention and love, a lot of hard work and a little bit of human engineering luck!

There are times when our actions are very necessary to bring about change. There are times when intentions and spiritual choices become even more important. I encourage you to take time out each day to send energy, love and compassion to the Mother Earth, the ocean, all the sea creatures and life forms affected, the marshes and wildlife sanctuaries, the fisherman and all the people who work in these areas, and even BP and the other oil companies and the technologies they use to supply US with oil. Just bless them all with your energy and love. LOVE, David

Trust the love in the creative flow of the Universe, trust the creative flow as you open for it to pass through you. It is not yours to own. It is yours to share and express through. Only the ego will cause you to claim creativity as your own. Only the ego will cause anything other than the state of love - now that is not to say the journey of being human is not a long one because for many it is. And that is great because the journey is the teacher. So be it! Your journey is your own and to each his own…nevertheless, the journey I choose to be on recognizes the love of spirit flowing as an energy of the Universe right through the center of my heart. I can only love, I can only love me in the presence of you, I can only love you in the presence of me. It’s a circle and love is the substance of this atmosphere. I can only love. I can only love and co=create with all the artists who choose to recognize the power of love. We are responsible to share the message of the power of love. As an artist the message I choose to grow is love, as a farmer the crop I choose to grow is love, as a father the journeys I walk with my child/children are on the path of love. Love is the way, there is no other way, no other path that I know or choose to walk up. I love, I create, I give gratitude, I exchange love and energy with everything in the Universe, I trust the power of love to define my existence as human. Love, David

I can only encourage (you) the artist to trust the creative flow that comes from expressing yourself. It will only make you the happiest you have ever been in your life. It will only give you the opportunity to play and co-create with the Universe in a way that is truly unique to you. It will only give you the satisfaction you have been waiting for. The healing that comes to you and others when you express is immense. Trust the Universal Flow of Energy that comes through the use of creativity, it’s a pure, drug free source of energy, spirit and love. The study of trusting the creative flow and the resistance of it is fascinating, and it truly is a mirror into your life. How you do anything is how you do everything. How you resist creativity ends up revealing how you resist trusting loving yourself. The template is very accurate  and very revealing. Trust the flow, trust, create, trust and emerge. Think about it…love, D

It’s amazing how much “resistance” defines so many people’s lives. I ask these same people why they trust resistance so much. I say, “Don’t you realize the resistance attracts what you are pushing away?” You know…”what you resist, persists!” It’s not fair for me to assume everyone would get this, but it seems so obvious.

I spend most of my time and energy focusing on the positive aspects of self-love, exchange and healing - where there is little resistance. Nevertheless, I do understand resistance very well. It really comes down to where you want to focus - on the positive and what you are accomplishing, or the negative and what you are not. The negative conversation is endless with reasons and excuses and a downward spiral of energy. I watch how people resist loving themselves but want to so desperately, I listen to countless stories about how people want to express their creativity and I see the many ways expression is resisted.

I have studied creativity in particular. When people are resisting the flow of their creativity they become very irritated, frustrated, distracted, guilty and unreliable. Resistance pushes the creativity sideways and a person becomes very robotic about doing exactly the opposite of what they want to do. I have done it too. No artist is immune from this. The way I work through it is pretty simple. I recognize the creativity in the resistance. I usually speak to it out loud. I love it and encourage the creativity to move to the project I want to work on. I gently nudge it to the doorway like a hummingbird caught in the house. I know I have to be gentle with it, encouraging, speak to it in the right way and tell it how beautiful it is.

Then I will gently shift my awareness from excessively cleaning my computer screen (distraction) to opening the document I am working on (creativity/writing).

I have paid close attention to the way people get congruent in their lives as they are expressing and loving themselves. It is more than amazing, it is magical! I watch confidence grow as people stick to the smallest commitment with their creativity. The template that is revealed through creative expression shows me the whole life of a person. Just by encouraging people to write and express themselves I have seen miracles of emergence and healing that open the heart and make the skin crawl. I have also watched people disappear into familiar cycles of negativity as they give into resistance. Resistance can be a familiar mantra of comfort for the underachiever. It never ceases to amaze me what resistance reveals to some and hides from others.

So, if you recognize a familiar feeling of contraction, pulling back, defending or distraction coming up when you are trying to create, express or love - reach through the resistance - create, express and love anyway. The smallest choice to express - one word, one line, one moment will open you up and create forward movement in your life. Confidence will grow as you give permission to yourself. The choice to express reinforces the choice to love, the choice to love creates an exchange with the Universe, and the choice to exchange adds energy to the Universe making the world a better place for all. Love the resistance and set the hummingbird inside your heart free. Love, David

I will be on Conscious Talk Radio @ 7:06 AM PDT tomorrow (Thurs) morning for all of you early risers! Brenda Michaels and Rob Spears are two “super conscious” great interviewer’s. Tune in, enjoy the show and call in if you have questions. KKNW 1150 AM, Seattle, WA

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I’ve played sports most of my life and I’ve competed at things where I shot, threw, caught, rode, wrangled and dribbled. Lately I’ve been looking at the ways I used to get in shape and compete. Well I have to tell you, it’s a different ballgame now. Some of it is…I am getting older! However, most of it has to do w/ the dance and balance of my masculine and feminine energy. I’m sure I have less testosterone running through my muscles now than when I was twenty and winning isn’t as important to me as it once was. But the most fascinating thing to me is the imprint of athletic prowess, male energy, ego and competition. It’s like riding a bucking bronco when the male energy stimulates my system.

Specifically, I am referring to my mountain bike rides in the Verdugo mountains. If you have played sports you know the threshold of discomfort you need to go through to get in great physical shape, and the trail I ride demands a certain level of conditioning. I know the physiological sensations of getting in shape so well - lactic acid buildup, muscle soreness, all good aches and pains. Anyway, I am having a different experience with it this time than I ever have. I am letting other riders pass me on the trail instead of bearing down and staying in front. The other day I even allowed a woman runner to pass me on the uphill. Please hear beyond the gender reference. She was pushing pure masculine energy to get up the mountain. As a matter of fact her energy is part of the reason I am writing. Her male energy felt extremely aggressive to me. Now, my examination in the moment was: am I judging her because she is passing me exerting a very aggressive energy, or am I reacting because it is hitting on my male ego? I had to deal with both thoughts. As she went huffing past I decided to send her love and acknowledge her will and desire to get in shape. I praised her instead of judging her, I even said, “Way to go!” It set me free.

She mumbled, “Yeah, thanks.”
The way I am attempting to get in shape is to use more of my feminine energy. It’s a stretch. I am choosing to acknowledge my muscles, lungs, bike, air, mountain, trail and the people on it. I am stopping and taking my time on the beautiful bends where you can see forever. In contrast, there’s a side of me that wants to be the only person on the trail early in the morning, that’s the way it used to be. Now I am choosing to share, relax and let go. Getting in shape this way has been incredibly different from the way I knew. I have not been going so far up the mountain.

But then today - it opened! The ride went easy. I exchanged with each pedal stroke. The air was expansive, the sunlight was invigorating, the moisture from the rain encouraged the mountain to sing for me. I couldn’t get enough of the mountain, the exchange was effortless. I rode much farther than I have been riding and when I turned to come back down I was exuberant about the way I felt. My body felt amazing and my spirit felt even better. It may end up taking me 10 times as long to get into the type of physical shape that I would like to be in, nevertheless this time it is about the journey of getting in shape and using both sides of my being. Life is good. Love, David