Microdosing the Tao

In this episode, I read and reflect on Chapter 48 of the Tao Te Ching. There's no doubt that acquiring knowledge and skills is an important part of life. In Taoism, however, this is not the path toward wisdom and inner alignment. Instead, we're instructed to focus on letting go… not acquiring, releasing…not gathering, dropping…not picking up. This is a fundamentally different process and approach to personal development. One that challenges our current productivity-obsessed culture and compulsions. One which requires us to build new habits and exercise new muscles if you will….the mental and emotional muscles of letting go, releasing, and dropping. In this episode, I share some simple "letting-go" experiments I ran in my own life and invite you to try them yourself.     If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends and on social media. Click here to join my newsletter to get updates on Microdosing the Tao, and learn about events and retreats.   You can follow the podcast on IG: @microdosingthetao   And as always, friends...May the Tao be with you!

In this episode, we explore Chapter 76 of the Tao Te Ching. This chapter focuses on how flexibility and “yielding” isn't a weakness but rather an intelligent design principle found in many aspects of nature…one that creates strength and resilience. “A tree that is unbending is easily broken; an army without flexibility never wins a battle.” We're invited and challenged to reflect on the areas in our own lives where we are being too rigid. Whether it be in our professional life, leadership, personal relationships, or even in our relationship with ourselves. Can we increase our ability to stay grounded in principles that matter to us while also cultivating more flexibility in our approaches? Whether it be in our professional life, leadership, personal relationships, or even in our relationship with ourselves. Can we increase our ability to stay grounded in principles that matter to us while also cultivating more flexibility in our approaches?   If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends and on social media. Click here to join my newsletter to get updates on Microdosing the Tao and learn about events and retreats. You can follow the podcast on IG: @microdosingthetao And as always, friends.... May the Tao be with you!  

In this episode, I read and reflect on Chapter 9 of the Tao Te Ching. This chapter speaks to the very human tendency to over-consume and to over-do. It challenges us to reflect on what we're "filling the bowls" of our attention with, and with how much. In which areas of our lives are we over-filling our bowls? And what messes are we making by allowing it to spill over? This chapter also invites us to re-train our awareness to listen to the quiet signals from our bodies, minds, and emotions, which guide us to discover "just the right amount" to support our well-being and actualization.   If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends and on social media. Click here to join my newsletter to get updates on Microdosing the Tao, and learn about events and retreats. You can follow the podcast on IG: @microdosingthetao And as always, friends...May the Tao be with you!

In this episode, I read and reflect on Chapter 51 of the Tao Te Ching. In this chapter, the chain of causation from oneness to polarity, and then from polarity to the diversity of all life is explained. This chapter reveals a core practice of Taoism: the cultivation of our alignment with our own unique nature. This "returning" or "remembering" is a journey toward the insight that each of us has a "natural way" that was designed with intelligence by nature.  The invitation is to start working with, not against, our own natures - knowing that they are unique expressions of the greater way of nature.   If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends and on social media. Click here to join my newsletter to get updates on Microdosing the Tao, and learn about events and retreats. You can follow the podcast on IG: @microdosingthetao And as always, friends... May the Tao be with you!

In this episode, I read and reflect on Chapter 13 of the Tao Te Ching. In this chapter, we are warned of the dangers of holding our ego-identity too tightly and are invited to start developing a broader sense of self that is connected to the whole. As the sage, Leonard Cohen once said: "If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day." If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends and on social media. Click here to join my newsletter to get updates on Microdosing the Tao, and learn about events and retreats. You can follow the podcast on IG: @microdosingthetao And as always, friends...May the Tao be with you!  

In this episode, I briefly share what the goal is for this podcast and why I was inspired to start it.  If you're intrigued, please make sure to subscribe to the podcast as well as share it with your friends and on social media. Click here to join my newsletter to get updates on Microdosing the Tao, learn about events and retreats. You can follow the podcast on IG: @microdosingthetao And as always, friends... May the Tao be with you!