Raising Consciousness | Compassion Meaning is Everything

Creating Mastery with Color ⊶ Friday afternoon a couple days ago:  it’s teetering on fall around here, and I enjoy watching the wind blow tree limbs and leaves sideways through the tall windows of my yoga studio.  Colors ar

I work with color with clients every day. The results are instantaneous and transformative, and here’s how it works. When people naturally and automatically assign a meaning to everything they experience, in order to sort danger from safety, and pleasure from pain, the meaning must then be attached in some way to that context. That’s what enables (or demands) our automatic responses in the future.

Mandy Barbee LanierMarch 27, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Whatever you're dealing with, this will help… It’s NOT another “call to action,” because I don’t know about you, but I have remained busier than ever while doing the work-from-home shuffle... Here’s what I see.  The most defin

The thing is, the future was always uncertain; it is always unknowable. We just don’t usually experience it as widely, as obviously, or as acutely as we are as a civilization, as a race, right now.

Mandy Barbee LanierMarch 23, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Work-Life Balance (and Rhythm) ⍋↺ The air is cooler this week, and precipitation is falling in the pacific northwest!  The light is waning as summer ends; the equality of day and night will soon succumb to another autumn. I was

Balance for me brings a picture of scales — of moderating — in truth, of more work. It’s effort to keep a balance when life is about ebbs and flows, just like the tide. Just like the seasons.

Staying Together Through Hard Times Today I wanted to acknowledge what's going on around us in the world right now, for while some things remain unchanged, many aspects are different, and I want to provide another viewpoint, a g

I want to encourage us all to keep our heads up.

It is not helpful to deny fearful circumstances - we cannot trick our own selves out of fear for very long.

What is helpful however, is to speak fear out loud, and acknowledge it, and comfort ourselves and others - freeing us up to problem solve together with others, not in isolation

Mandy Barbee LanierMarch 12, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Beginner’s Mind ♙ Let go completely Summer again held transition in store for me this year, like each of the last seven summers of my life.  Driven by purpose, I left my job at Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch (prev. Vulcan Inc.) in l

How letting go can help you to start over. “If you let go a little, you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely, you will be free. -Ajahn Chah”

Mandy Barbee LanierMarch 5, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Building self esteem: Techniques that Help Guest author:  Leah Wyatt Building self esteem has been a lifelong struggle for me. Whether it was my parents’ messy divorce and my father’s subsequent departure from my life at

Self esteem is something that everyone struggles with at some point. We all bring our own trauma and struggles to the table and have to overcome it. Starting while we are we young on building self esteem is so important but we can overcome any self esteem concerns as we grow older as well. Read on to learn of some tips that can help!

Mandy Barbee LanierMarch 3, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Listening to fear What is your relationship with fear? I wish you and I were in a conversation right now, with cups of tea in our hands, so I could hear your response.. Is that relationship is similar to Avoidance? Do you Cope wit

Learning to listen to your fears is hard enough but we also have to learn to confront fear and overcome it. In order to conquer fear, we have to understand the different types of fear. Using the tools of hypnosis, I have found a way to help myself and others overcome fears that have been plaguing them.

Mandy Barbee LanierFebruary 24, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Meaning of Compassion Guest author:  Leah Wyatt I’ve been thinking about the meaning of compassion lately. This internal conversation was likely stimulated by the holidays: many of us experience heightened anxiety du

What does compassion mean to you? Compassion towards others may look different than compassion towards ourself. It’s important for us to look at all the meanings of compassion. And then, figure out how we are going to apply compassion in our lives. Compassion and empathy go together and our world needs more of both.

Mandy Barbee LanierFebruary 15, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Vision for 2020 and Beyond Do you feel the same closure about the last decade that I do?  Have you set an intention for the days, weeks, and year(s) to come? I’m not usually sentimental about these things if you can believe it.

I am beyond pleased to put into words something that is extremely personal, and that I also found difficult to articulate. I hope that you’ll join me with an intention of self compassion this new year, this new decade. Each kindness we show creates ripple effects in the electromagnetic spectrum we are all a part of…. Think {and act} with loving kindness! Let’s make this our greatest year yet.

Mandy Barbee LanierJanuary 7, 2020Palladium Mind Inc

Meaningful Connection Downtown Morning light yesterday*, everything glowing orange after the sunlight filtered through the smoke. I walked out of the subway station, coffee from David in hand, backpack on my shoulders, hair washed a

This is a short story about human connection, and what respect, dignity and support can look like. We are all more the same than we are different, and in the light of this truth all good is made possible. Peace is made one action, one word, one choice at a time; how are you creating peace today? ♡

Mandy Barbee LanierDecember 24, 2019Palladium Mind Inc