What’s in the Water?

Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream

In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.

Molly Gordon
Recent articles

How to have more good ideas when you need them

Relaxing your mind and engaging with life are the keys to having your next really good idea.  If you'd like help tuning into the best ideas for your life, career, or business, I'd love to help. I have two openings for coaching in September and October. Click below for...

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Can the Three Principles prevent suicide or suffering?

I've been a spiritual seeker for almost as long as I can remember. As a child I longed to please God. I prayed for visions of the Virgin Mary. I aspired to sainthood. Now at 61 my understanding is substantially different, but I believe the fundamental nature of being...

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How to Make Decisions: Live in the Moment!

What does and doesn't work about trying to make good decisions? Why is it that sometimes the more we think about making a decision the more confused we become? Discover why we can never find the answers by "reading the crawl." Want help discerning your best decisions?...

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The startling practicality of happiness

Woohoo! The first in a series of free Happiness Hangouts happens this Friday, August 8, at 9:00am Pacific Daylight Time and YOU are invited. Why? Because it happens that happiness doesn't just feel good; it's startlingly practical. As the name suggests, Happiness...

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Inner Guidance Is Common Sense

Sometimes the hard part of discerning inner guidance is thinking it's going to be dramatic or big. In fact, common sense is wisdom perfectly calibrated to a specific moment in time. Don't confuse this inner guidance in the moment with generic common sense. I have a...

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How to Deal with Resistance–Set It Aside

How do you deal with resistance? You could analyze it, process it, search for the meaning behind it--or you could simply set it aside. Resistance takes care of itself when we shift our attention away from it. The key? Shift your attention away from resistance by...

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How to Stop Negative Thinking

What if the secret to controlling or stopping negative thinking is as simple as stopping? We don't get to choose which thoughts come across our mental landscape, but we absolutely get to decide how much significance to accord them. When we analyze, excavate, or...

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Wellbeing Is Our True Nature

Wholeness is our nature, our default condition. When we remember that we are essentially whole we attach less significance to the ups and downs of our moment-to-moment human experience. We don't have to get out of the human experience in order to be utterly safe and...

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How to Respond to Irrational Fear with Grace

We all experience irrational fear from time to time. The wonderful thing is that realizing that the fear is irrational is our ticket to freedom. As soon as we really get that we are living in the feeling of our fearful thinking in the moment, our experience will...

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