What is it that so many of us continue to seek?

We have tools to successfully manage stress, meditations to connect us to our spirit, and exercise routines to keep our bodies fit. Many of us have tasted the feeling of being whole and connected to everything – that sense of blissful oneness in which everything is in perfect order, whether or not it suits our preferences. From that taste, emerges a longing, a wish to not simply experience, but to actually live from that perspective. To live and breathe that visceral trust in a deeper Intelligence embedded in every aspect of life.

My approach to this issue, I call “Living Inquiry,” living the inquiry of who we are and what we, as unique individuals, are doing on this planet at this time. Living Inquiry is not only a tool for personal transformation, it is a way of life.

It advocates a way of being in the world that is guided by resonance and wholeness. It honors the multidimensionality of “truth” and “reality.” We inquire in order to connect with essence and essence responds, revealing its multi-ordinate nature.

Being human means living in a body in which the intelligence of 70 trillion cells co-exist. The whole body responds to what we think, feel, and believe. Our organisms pick and choose what to register from millions of bits of information that are flying around us at all times. From the perspective of Living Inquiry, Divine Intelligence is constantly revealing itself to us.

Thought, feeling, image, sensation, and dream, any awareness is the raw experience which can open us to unimagined discoveries about who we are and what we came to do in this lifetime.

Even accidents and physical disease can provide meaningful clues. In this approach, there are no obstacles. The bigger the emotional charge of an experience, the more powerful is its ability to transform.

There are innumerable ways to create a new and improved version of ourselves, but living in inquiry speaks to something different. Something totally unexpected and unknown is trying to reveal itself through desirable and undesirable experiences alike.

Our conditioned sense of good and bad, right and wrong, were learned in the process of surviving childhood. From the primary need to adapt to our circumstances, we adopted many beliefs which may or may not belong to us. It is this conditioning that provides the raw material for our self-discovery. Living Inquiry facilitates a shift in our experience of life, allowing us to transition from a fear-based paradigm rooted in judgement and criticism, to a paradigm of resonance and wholeness, based on love.

Within each of us lies a Divinely unique essence which can offer Guidance in any life experience – if only we can recognize and receive It. In the practice of inquiry, we experience the body and the psyche as reflections of each other – specific portals through which our essence reveals itself.

Spiritual paths teach us how to receive inner wisdom through prayer, meditation, and intuition. Living Inquiry, however, focuses on the way that guidance constantly reveals itself to us in ordinary everyday events, both the ones we like and the ones that are painful or difficult. As we respond with curiosity to what life presents us, we create a living dialogue with Life, so that our participation co-creates our future.

The rewards of living life from this perspective are many. With tools to encounter both triumph and tragedy, every moment can deepen our connection with the essence of our lives. Any human experience can be a transformational portal, an opening to a journey of meaningful discovery. Furthermore, any experience can open us to a feeling of belonging to a purposeful, coherent universe.

Genes and hormones for well-being are present in our bodies and brains as potentials. When we feel that our lives have meaning and purpose and that we can affect our destinies, our bodies can activate these genes and turn on our potential for health and happiness.

Living Inquiry is my passion. Rooted in the psychology of C.G. Jung and the practice of Continuum Movement, it is born of 45 years of studying more than 30 different psychotherapies, numerous approaches to the body, and a variety of spiritual paths.

I am excited to share this adventurous approach to life with you.

Welcome to Living Inquiry!