Charly Hill's Blog (47)

When I was preparing to move from California to Florida, I had an idea in my head that I was going to create a way to earn income from my interest in fabric and yarn and crafts. I have been noodling around with pins and needles for most of my life and it has ever been my goal to follow this piece of wisdom attributed to Confucius: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." So why not put my love of crafting to "work" for me? I certainly did that with my… Continue

Practicing as a clinical psychotherapist, it was easy to recognize the power of thoughts in shaping peoples' life experiences. As an intuitive coach and earth school student, I am learning more about the power of our emotions. And while our thoughts surely shape our emotions, it is the emotions themselves that seem to have the power of transformation and creation. Many of our spiritual teachers emphasize bringing conscious choice to our emotional experience in order to shape how we create our… Continue

In her book The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron discusses the Buddhist concept of renunciation in language that invites new perspective and application.



"Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited petty world is insane. Once you begin to get the feeling of how big the world is and how vast our potential for experiencing life is, then you really begin to understand renunciation......When we sit in meditation, we feel our breath as… Continue

When and why do our instincts betray us? I often talk about listening to our inner wisdom, allowing our guides / angels / unconscious connection to the cosmos provide us with direction. However, our unconscious wisdom "can be thrown off, distracted and disabled. Our instinctive reactions often have to compete with all kinds of other interests, emotions and sentiments" writes Malcolm Gladwell in a very interesting book called blink. He proposes that we all have the abilities to know, to… Continue

I have one little ceramic and iron table in my house that I keep empty. I use it most every day to hold a cup of tea or to rest a book. I make sure that nothing comes to stay on this table for more than a brief period because it symbolizes open space and receptivity; it represents having room for something new in my life.



The tendency to stay overly busy, or to fill the surface of every table and counter leaves little room to receive new input. And it often reflects a repetitive… Continue

In order to change a behavioral pattern it is necessary to address the mental and emotional habits that support the status quo. We tend to think the same thoughts, reenact the same emotional scenarios, and do the same things over and over. Neural pathways become well established highways and the unconscious mind continues to repeat the sequence for the comfort of familiarity and the illusion of safety. I learned this as a psychotherapist and am learning it again in my Alexander Technique… Continue

Back in the day when I worked in a county detox and treatment facility, we often heard clients talking about what they wanted. They wanted to stop drinking, they wanted their family back, they wanted to stop getting in trouble because of their anger, they wanted to change their lives. My supervisor used to respond to these statements with the question "How does it feel to want?" I interpreted his question as intending to provoke a shift of focus away from bemoaning what they didn't have to… Continue