Last week I had the pleasure and honor of leading students through the first Channeling Emotions Intensive Practice Course: Six hours of diving deep into the unconscious contracts holding students to actions that no longer serve, redefining their boundaries, Burning Contracts, and of course, practice channeling emotions.

Students worked with scenarios as simple as how to deal with someone standing too close in line and uncovered hidden contracts around politeness, self-preservation, and the importance of personal boundaries.

While perfection is a myth, practicing anything will usually help you get better. It's commonly accepted that going to soccer or French practice will make you a better player or speaker, but it's rare for people to practice working with their emotions.

This is indeed something that takes practice.

One of those things is establishing and deepening my relationships in a meaningful way with people in my in-person and online communities in a way that doesn't require that I sit at a computer!

For the next six months, I'll be hosting a 1-hour Q & A each month, on a variety of topics, via FreeConferenceCall. This means I'll be walking around while on my phone, and you can too!

Before I was conscious of my emotions or knew what they were, when I wanted something, or had a goal to accomplish, I saw it as my duty to get from point A to point B in (what I though was) the quickest way possible: my way.

I bulldozed everyone and everything in my path to get to the thing, even if that meant pushing water uphill, or pulling people along with me who were only half-hearted. My focus was on accomplishing the thing, to the exclusion of everyone and everything else.

Today I'd like to share a number with you - the number of people who took my courses this year.

This morning as I was cleaning off our porch and untangling the child's toys from the woodbox from the chicken feed from the electric cords, I was ready to get rid of all of it.