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Use Your Power to Change the World in 2021

The first of January has often felt to me like an arbitrary date to divide our lives by, since most of our projects and phases don’t conform to the calendar… Read More

Living Your Purpose

The new 2021 Rituals for Living Dreambook+Planner will be released in a couple weeks, and there’s been a huge surge of interest in it this year, so I decided to… Read More

Planning + Partners = Power

A few weeks ago we had a dozen Dragontree managers staying at our house for a 2020 planning session. There were lots of laughs and lots of great ideas. It… Read More

Integrity

Earlier this week, I had a sort of heavy conversation with my wife, Briana. We were both feeling like we have more going on than we can handle. I was… Read More

Living Your Purpose

There’s been a huge surge of interest in the Dreambook this year, so I decided to share a bit more about what makes it special. It’s easy when life feels… Read More

5 Things to Journal About and Why

There is so much research about the benefits of journaling: stress relief, sparks creativity, improves confidence, helps with conflict resolution, improves writing, boosts memory, increases emotional intelligence, helps achieve goals,… Read More

#nodreambookgatheringdust

Raise your hand if you’ve ever… Been at the craft store and bought all of the gadgets to make something . . . hoping it would ignite your creativity to… Read More

Setting 10 Year Goals When You Can Barely Plan Next Week

At my grandma’s funeral, there were lots of tears and lots of laughs. We shared beautiful memories and shoulders to cry on. She was 91, she had as big of… Read More

The Book that Changed Everything for Us (And Thousands of You!)

When I read The Way of the Peaceful Warrior as a teenager I distinctly remember noticing its subtitle – “A Book that Changes Lives” – and thinking, “It did change… Read More

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It’s easy when life feels very full to get into a routine of simply managing your many activities, perhaps with an attitude of doing it just to get done with it. But the richness of life is in the little moments, so we wanted to help our readers be more present with whatever they’re engaged in. Thich Nhat Hanh’s discussion on washing the dishes is one of the most quoted passages on the topic of mindfulness, but I could hear it and share it a million times: “There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes. . . . If while washing the dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not ‘washing the dishes to wash the dishes.’ What’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.” The consequences of mindlessly washing the dishes may be minimal, but what about the consequences of mindlessly eating, mindlessly doing our job, mindlessly playing with our kids, or mindlessly conversing with our partner? A life without our presence – because we’re just trying to get through it – is devoid of the magic, connection, and grace that make it worth living. There are a number of ways to change this outcome-focused orientation. One of the most potent, which we share in the Dreambook, is identifying your life purpose. When you have a purpose, you’re conscious that you’re serving a bigger function than meeting your own needs. When you’re “on purpose,” energy arises to support your work. Opportunities appear everywhere. And, most importantly, you spend more of your life right here, right now, alive and clear. Various methods exist for determining your life purpose, but when it comes down to it, it’s a matter of guessing and/or intuiting what you’re meant to do, feeling it out, and choosing to pursue it. It’s okay if you later decide to modify that choice. We have a more involved process in the Dreambook, but for today let’s see what comes to you with just a few minutes of contemplation. Grab a pen and paper and write a few sentences in response to these questions: What times and places in your life did you feel you were making a meaningful contribution? What value do you bring to a community? What inspires you? What would people say your strengths are? When/how do you feel called to serve humankind or the planet? What are your highest values (e.g., kindness, generosity, honesty, service, integrity, beauty, etc.)? Based on these responses, craft a statement that conveys how you intend to serve the world. Here are some examples:

My purpose is to help people heal through creative expression.
My life purpose is to build healthy communities.
My purpose is to help people use their voices and awaken their power.
My purpose is to facilitate playfulness in adults.
My purpose is to teach people how to live in harmony with the environment.
My purpose is to help people actualize their potential.

Don’t worry about getting the statement perfect on the first round. For now, choose a statement of life purpose and read it out loud and with intention. How does that feel? Ideally, making this statement should feel powerful and right, or as my friend Reuvain puts it, it should feel like a “hell yeah!”. It might even give you goosebumps or tingles. If it feels a bit intimidating, that’s ok, too, as long as it also feels true. If it doesn’t feel like a “hell yeah!” change some of the wording. Consider making it less specific. For instance, if a statement such as, “My purpose is to help children to become healthy adults by learning to process their emotions” doesn't feel as inspiring as you hoped, you could start by broadening it to something like, “My purpose is to help children process their emotions,” or even just, “My purpose is to help children.” Just get it as accurate as you can manage and then write it down. I recommend writing it in a special way on a nice piece of paper. Put it somewhere where you’ll see it and say it every morning. More importantly, try to keep it in mind throughout your day, applying it as often as you can. Track this process. What changes when you’re on purpose? Is it easier to make decisions? Do people respond differently to you? Is there more energy available? Consciously living your purpose is the only way to know if it’s right. As you live your purpose, you’ll get insights that will help you refine your purpose statement. I’d love to hear about your experience with this process. Be well, Peter P.S. My life purpose is to help the world heal and awaken, and I hope I’ve served that purpose today! [post_title] => Living Your Purpose [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => living-your-purpose-2 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2020-08-23 23:10:46 [post_modified_gmt] => 2020-08-23 23:10:46 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://thedragontree.com/?p=8015 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw [webinar_id] => 0 ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 8150 [post_author] => 1 [post_date] => 2021-01-03 00:22:17 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-01-03 00:22:17 [post_content] => The first of January has often felt to me like an arbitrary date to divide our lives by, since most of our projects and phases don’t conform to the calendar year. But I’ve decided it’s as good a time as any to make resolutions, and perhaps there’s some group momentum we can generate as a community by aligning ourselves around virtuous intentions together. Are you familiar with the concept of “drafting” or “slipstreaming”? It’s what happens when you’re in the wake of air or water created behind a moving vehicle. You can move with less effort because the object in front of you blocks the wind resistance for you and sweeps you along with them. Cyclists and race car drivers do it all the time – drafting the bike or car in front of them by staying right behind them. The only one who doesn’t benefit much from it is the vehicle in the front. I propose we join together in a slipstreaming experiment. We’ll all be drafting a guy named Rodney who lives in Hoboken and is really jazzed about his new diet. Our collective stream will usher in a new era for 2021. Ok, to be fair it’s not really up to Rodney to carry us all along. In reality we’ll form something more like a massive armada of ships, all sailing in the same general direction and creating our own current. To be part of it, you just need to utilize your creative power – something we’re all born with often lose sight of. I encourage you to take the opportunity to consider how you’d like 2021 to go. Your mind may be tempted to limit your vision to very modest changes, but the past year should show us how dramatically things can change in a short period of time. So dream big. What kinds of things would you like to see in the coming year? People transcending sociopolitical schisms and coming together in a big way? The end of the pandemic? A revelation in the management of wildfires? A powerful way to reverse climate change? Economic prosperity for common people more than mega-corporations? A discovery that will make clean water available to all those who need it? True equality for women, people of color, and all minorities? Write about your vision for yourself and the world at large, and then give it a name – as if it were a movie or story you’re entitling, a Theme for 2021. (If you have a Dreambook, there’s a page dedicated to his.) You may wish to create two themes – one for you personally and one for the world – though your personal theme should clearly fit in with the world’s theme. The year has a magical way of unfolding in accordance with the theme we specify – especially if we’re intentional about it, meaning we make a ritual of it. You can choose the format for this ritual. Following are some ideas, but feel free to modify them.

Establish a change of environment and consciousness using music, candles, scents, drumming, meditation, singing, chanting, dancing, walking, anointing yourself with oils, going to a special place, connecting with the elements, calling in your guides, or whatever works for you to access a feeling of peace, receptivity, and power. Make sure you’ll be undisturbed for a while, and have paper and pen nearby.
Tune in. Close your eyes and invite your Source / Highest Self to express itself through you.
Declare your intention for this ritual. You could say something like, “I open this ritual for the purpose of accessing clarity and power to establish the course of the coming year. I ask for insight to recognize how my path has served me thus far. I ask for guidance to know where to direct my focus and energies in order to live as an embodiment of my Authentic Self; to open my heart fully to love and healing; to effectively share my gifts with the world; and to release any blocks or patterns that aren’t serving me.” (Again, say this in whatever words feel good and right to you.)
Connect with your creative power. You’ve always had this gift, even if it has seemed at times that the course of your life isn’t what you would have chosen. If this connection isn’t clear to you, you might try asking for help. You could say something like, “Dear [Highest Self / Spirit / God / Divine Mother, etc.], help me to understand my creative power. Let me feel it. Show me how I have used it in the past. Help me to recognize what is possible.”
Feel, intuit, and visualize the coming year. Who will you BE this year? What will you bring to your community? How will you be a positive influence on your environment? What will you be a channel for? How will you speak intentionally? How will you grow? What will you let go of? How will the world respond to your love and light? Take plenty of time with this.
Now, allow this picture to crystalize into a clear intention. Let words form. What is the emerging theme?
- For example: The Year of Loving Myself Completely. The Year of Living my Purpose. The Year of Learning to Trust. The Year of Shining my Light Upon the World. The Year of Owning My Power. The Year of Healing my Body. The Year of Playfulness. The Year of Lightheartedness.
If you wish to set an intention for the world, be sure your own personal gain, approval, and control are out of the equation. What would you want for the world if you fully believed that it was an extension of yourself? What would you want for the world if you believed that the world’s healing and happiness was inextricable from your own healing and happiness? Again, let yourself be guided by your divine inner vision. Then allow the picture to crystalize into a clear intention and let words arise that express this intention.
- For example: The Year of Remembering We’re All Connected. The Year of Forgiving Each Other. The Year of Great Healing. The Year of Returning to Simplicity. The Year of Finding Our Hearts and Living Through Them. The Year of Being Gentle with One Another. The Year of Restoring Natural Balance. The Year of Peace.
Write your personal and/or world intention(s) down. I like to use scratch paper to refine the words and then write my final statement on a special piece of paper with a special pen.
Close the ritual in a way that works for you. Thank your guides / angels / Highest Self / Divine Source for guidance. Intend to honor this guidance by dedicating yourself to this theme for the year.
Devote yourself to your theme(s). Doing this ritual and writing on the paper are a great first step. But now you must be a full-time advocate of the theme(s). This doesn’t necessarily mean physical work in support of the theme(s), though it may.
Don’t get too attached or picky about the details of how exactly it should look. And abstain from the urge to evaluate short periods of time (i.e., mini-chapters in a much bigger story) as proof that it isn’t working.
Most important is that you REMEMBER the theme(s), believe in the theme(s), honor the theme(s). Let your thoughts, words, and actions be aligned in service to the theme(s). Read your statement at least once a day. Talk about the theme(s) with your friends and family. Share about your theme(s) on social media. Be open to opportunities to advance and actualize your theme(s). The more you give yourself over to it, the more you will be amazed at how things unfold.

After the upheaval that was 2020, I know more people who are consciously engaging in a process like this than I’ve ever known before. I’m excited to see where we’ll be in another year. If you feel moved, please share the theme of your year in the comment area below! Be well, Dr. Peter Borten [post_title] => Use Your Power to Change the World in 2021 [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => use-your-power-to-change-the-world-in-2021 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-01-03 01:33:36 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-01-03 01:33:36 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://thedragontree.com/?p=8150 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 3 [filter] => raw [webinar_id] => 0 ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 8137 [post_author] => 1 [post_date] => 2020-12-19 21:16:30 [post_date_gmt] => 2020-12-19 21:16:30 [post_content] => Welcome to the final installment in my series on longevity. We’ve covered a lot over the past few months! Here’s a recap: (1) Love life and live for the present (2) Work, stretch, and relax all parts of yourself (3) Dance with consciousness (4) Reduce media consumption (5) Pay attention to your breathing (6) Eat less (7) Prioritize community and service (8) Exchange love and touch (9) Optimize your sleep (10) Laugh more (11) Keep your heart open (12) Simplify (13) Go with the flow / don’t resist (14) Be one with Nature. (15) Keep growing (16) Know your pain body (17) Invite the spiritual dimension into your life. And now for my last three recommendations. #18: Be an Optimist. Optimism has measurable positive impacts on physical and psychological health. Some people are born optimists and it comes naturally for them to always look on the bright side. What a**holes, right? 😉 If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. The fact is, even if you were born such a curmudgeon that you can’t see the bright side of a lightbulb, you can choose to become an optimist today. Remember that “growth mindset” we talked about? Sure, optimism is a lucky inheritance for some, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be cultivated. To a great extent optimism and pessimism are habits of attention, and what you put your attention on grows. If you want to be an optimist, start putting your attention on what’s working, what’s good, beautiful, fascinating, or fortuitous. Pick something and take a moment to appreciate it. Hit your inner “save button.” Amplify it. Comment on it out loud – to yourself or whomever is nearby. Feel how it lifts you up a little. Then go with this springiness and see if there’s another good thing you can be aware of. Bounce from one gift to the next. If nothing sweet or wonderful jumps out at you, create a sweet event. Hand someone a flower, pay someone’s bus fare, offer a compliment. Meanwhile, as important as focusing on the good is noticing when you’re focusing on the bad. Then, as efficiently as possible, pick up your attention, put it on something else, and let go of whatever you were focusing on. You can change your habits. #19: Forgive. Little consumes life force as much as holding onto grievances, whether they’re with ourselves, other people, or the world. Withheld forgiveness is a primary expression of the pain body (our addiction to pain and conflict) we talked about last week, but I chose to cover forgiveness as a separate item on this list because it’s just so important. Our resentments cause us pain while stealing our power and attention. Moreover, everything we resent eventually hardens within our physical and/or energetic being as a sort of concretion. You might think of it as a knot or blockage. Conversely, forgiveness is the relinquishment of a false idea – the idea that condemnation is a force for constructive change – and it opens and frees us. Like the concept of resistance I discussed in part nine of this series, I feel I could write a whole book about forgiveness, but in the interest of your time, I’ll bottom line it. Opportunities for forgiveness are everywhere. Start noticing your grievances with all sorts of elements of your life – from the obvious to the very subtle – and forgive them. Don’t expect it to be something you’ll do once and it will never come back. Forgiveness is a commitment to keep forgiving. Over and over. Let it go, let it go, let it go. Feel the peace that comes from this act. Set yourself free and set the world free. #20: Love Yourself. If you seek longevity, I believe it’s worth looking closely at who it is that you wish to have a longer life and how you feel about this creature. Look in a mirror. Do you love that being dearly? Have you forgiven and accepted them in their entirety – for everything they are and all they’ve ever done? Do you want the best for them in all situations? Do you treat them lovingly in terms of how you feed them, how you groom them and clothe them, how you exercise them, how you regard them and speak inwardly to them? Are you your own biggest cheerleader? If the answer is “no” to any of these questions, sadly, you’re in excellent company with most of the world. What a tragedy that we’re given a life and a vehicle for that life, and from such an early age we learn to withhold love from it. The withholding of love from ourselves is mostly fueled by an internalization of the parent/child dynamic (where the parent role could be informed by any adults from our early life). We become our own inner parent (more like a vicious tyrant at times), deeming ourselves underserving of love for all the ways in which we don’t match some unattainable template of perfection. Withholding love from certain parts of us while conditionally loving the other parts (as long as they don’t get pimples or say the wrong thing) fragments us. The path to self-love involves a lot of forgiveness. What parts of yourself have you disapproved of, rejected, or even denied the existence of? Find all the unloved pieces, forgive them, and let your love enter them, envelop them, and include them in your emerging sense of self. Forgive yourself for condemning and withholding love from these parts of yourself. Visualize your reintegration. Use your broader forgiveness practice to learn where you may be withholding self-love. What aspects of the world do you condemn? What qualities in others do you resent? Can you find those same qualities within yourself? Yes, it’s work. But it’s work worth doing. This concludes our exploration of the factors that contribute to longevity and life enrichment. There are always exceptions – like the rare centenarian who drinks whiskey for breakfast and doesn’t abide by any of the recommendations on this list – but I figure we might as well hedge our bets and follow these practices to the best of our ability. Also, my focus all along has been to help you get more life out of this life right now – regardless of how much longer it lasts. I always love getting into conversation with you. Did I miss a good one? What do you plan to do with your newly lengthened life? Share your thoughts about this subject with me and our community. Be well, Peter P.S. If you’re someone who likes to see everything in one place, here’s the whole list for review:

Love life and live for the present
Work, stretch, and relax all parts of yourself
Dance with consciousness
Reduce media consumption
Pay attention to your breathing
Eat less
Prioritize community and service
Exchange love and touch
Optimize your sleep
Laugh more
Keep your heart open
Simplify
Go with the flow / don’t resist
Be one with Nature
Keep growing
Know your pain body
Invite the spiritual dimension into your life.
Be an optimist
Forgive
Love yourself

[post_title] => Three Final Keys to Living Longer and Happier [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => three-final-keys-to-living-longer-and-happier [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2020-12-19 21:31:26 [post_modified_gmt] => 2020-12-19 21:31:26 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://thedragontree.com/?p=8137 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 2 [filter] => raw [webinar_id] => 0 ) ) [post_count] => 3 [current_post] => -1 [in_the_loop] => [post] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 8015 [post_author] => 3 [post_date] => 2020-08-21 16:40:13 [post_date_gmt] => 2020-08-21 16:40:13 [post_content] => The new 2021 Rituals for Living Dreambook+Planner will be released in a couple weeks, and there’s been a huge surge of interest in it this year, so I decided to share a bit more about what makes it special. It’s easy when life feels very full to get into a routine of simply managing your many activities, perhaps with an attitude of doing it just to get done with it. But the richness of life is in the little moments, so we wanted to help our readers be more present with whatever they’re engaged in. Thich Nhat Hanh’s discussion on washing the dishes is one of the most quoted passages on the topic of mindfulness, but I could hear it and share it a million times: “There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes. . . . If while washing the dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not ‘washing the dishes to wash the dishes.’ What’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.” The consequences of mindlessly washing the dishes may be minimal, but what about the consequences of mindlessly eating, mindlessly doing our job, mindlessly playing with our kids, or mindlessly conversing with our partner? A life without our presence – because we’re just trying to get through it – is devoid of the magic, connection, and grace that make it worth living. There are a number of ways to change this outcome-focused orientation. One of the most potent, which we share in the Dreambook, is identifying your life purpose. When you have a purpose, you’re conscious that you’re serving a bigger function than meeting your own needs. When you’re “on purpose,” energy arises to support your work. Opportunities appear everywhere. And, most importantly, you spend more of your life right here, right now, alive and clear. Various methods exist for determining your life purpose, but when it comes down to it, it’s a matter of guessing and/or intuiting what you’re meant to do, feeling it out, and choosing to pursue it. It’s okay if you later decide to modify that choice. We have a more involved process in the Dreambook, but for today let’s see what comes to you with just a few minutes of contemplation. Grab a pen and paper and write a few sentences in response to these questions: What times and places in your life did you feel you were making a meaningful contribution? What value do you bring to a community? What inspires you? What would people say your strengths are? When/how do you feel called to serve humankind or the planet? What are your highest values (e.g., kindness, generosity, honesty, service, integrity, beauty, etc.)? Based on these responses, craft a statement that conveys how you intend to serve the world. Here are some examples:

My purpose is to help people heal through creative expression.
My life purpose is to build healthy communities.
My purpose is to help people use their voices and awaken their power.
My purpose is to facilitate playfulness in adults.
My purpose is to teach people how to live in harmony with the environment.
My purpose is to help people actualize their potential.

Don’t worry about getting the statement perfect on the first round. For now, choose a statement of life purpose and read it out loud and with intention. How does that feel? Ideally, making this statement should feel powerful and right, or as my friend Reuvain puts it, it should feel like a “hell yeah!”. It might even give you goosebumps or tingles. If it feels a bit intimidating, that’s ok, too, as long as it also feels true. If it doesn’t feel like a “hell yeah!” change some of the wording. Consider making it less specific. For instance, if a statement such as, “My purpose is to help children to become healthy adults by learning to process their emotions” doesn't feel as inspiring as you hoped, you could start by broadening it to something like, “My purpose is to help children process their emotions,” or even just, “My purpose is to help children.” Just get it as accurate as you can manage and then write it down. I recommend writing it in a special way on a nice piece of paper. Put it somewhere where you’ll see it and say it every morning. More importantly, try to keep it in mind throughout your day, applying it as often as you can. Track this process. What changes when you’re on purpose? Is it easier to make decisions? Do people respond differently to you? Is there more energy available? Consciously living your purpose is the only way to know if it’s right. As you live your purpose, you’ll get insights that will help you refine your purpose statement. I’d love to hear about your experience with this process. Be well, Peter P.S. My life purpose is to help the world heal and awaken, and I hope I’ve served that purpose today! [post_title] => Living Your Purpose [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => living-your-purpose-2 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2020-08-23 23:10:46 [post_modified_gmt] => 2020-08-23 23:10:46 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://thedragontree.com/?p=8015 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw [webinar_id] => 0 ) [comment_count] => 0 [current_comment] => -1 [found_posts] => 120 [max_num_pages] => 3 [max_num_comment_pages] => 0 [is_single] => [is_preview] => [is_page] => [is_archive] => 1 [is_date] => [is_year] => [is_month] => [is_day] => [is_time] => [is_author] => [is_category] => 1 [is_tag] => [is_tax] => [is_search] => [is_feed] => [is_comment_feed] => [is_trackback] => [is_home] => [is_privacy_policy] => [is_404] => [is_embed] => [is_paged] => [is_admin] => [is_attachment] => [is_singular] => [is_robots] => [is_favicon] => [is_posts_page] => [is_post_type_archive] => [query_vars_hash:WP_Query:private] => ce016ca616bf9b96fed16c9704d5d7f6 [query_vars_changed:WP_Query:private] => [thumbnails_cached] => [stopwords:WP_Query:private] => [compat_fields:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => query_vars_hash [1] => query_vars_changed ) [compat_methods:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => init_query_flags [1] => parse_tax_query ) )

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