Automatic parenting strikes again. Within 5 hours I observed 3 incidences of parents running on "automatic" mode without any seeming awareness as to how crucial their words, actions and behavior are to their child. I am not looking for perfection but I do wish to see more and more parents operating from a positive parenting…
Ken LaDeroute
I think we think too much.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the mind is an amazing tool to help us live and survive in this world, but sometimes it feels like my incredible thinking machine has a life of its own!
When I start thinking, thoughts seem to morph from one thought to another. “I need…
The other day I experienced an “Ah Ha” moment that made me see my reality differently than I normally see it.
Someone asked me, “What are you afraid of?” I stopped in my tracks. Being homeless and living under a bridge ranked high up there.
But as I thought deeper, and after writing my fears down in…
As a coach, I'm in the business of helping people find solutions to their lives.
I’ve found that it’s not uncommon for clients to know what they don’t want but few know what they do want.
They tell me how unhappy they are in their current jobs or lives but they are…
The other day my innovations coach asked me, “Out of all your varied interests, which bring you the most joy?” I had to stop and think. In fact I pondered on this for several weeks. I wrote extensively in my journal and I meditated about it.
Helping others grow, teaching mindfulness meditation, writing inspiring songs, and…
When you ask people to point to themselves, regardless of the culture, they will almost always point to the center of their chest, to their heart center. They don’t point to their head. We instinctively know that there is an intelligence, an innate sense of our core being deep in our body, not in the…
I have been a spiritual seeker all of my life. I took up mindfulness meditation 25 years ago because I wanted to become enlightened. I wanted to know the mysteries of life. After reading countless books about enlightenment, I became a vegetarian and tried to control all aspects of my life with a desire to…
It’s dawn and the world is waking up. Eyes open, still drunk from sleep, we stretch and prepare for the realities of the day. As day follows night, we move in tandem with the cycles of nature.
Birth and death, creation and destruction - these are the cycles of life. These cycles reveal themselves in nature,…
Knocking down the walls of conditioning and ego opens up new vistas. Your perspective widens. Expansion reveals a deeper intelligence, awake and alive, pulsating with loving energy.
I go to this place when I meditate. It’s the Ground of Being, and this is my home.
Remembering the deeper states of awareness in your daily life…
Words and Music by Ken LaDeroute sung by Amy LaDeroute
Produced by Kit Walker and Ken LaDeroute
"The really ego less person is not humble at all. He is neither arrogant nor humble; he is simply himself." ~Osho
“God = Man minus Ego” ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba
To function in the world we need ego.
Ego is your sense of individuality or awareness of the self.
In the psychological sense, the ego’s quality is self-organizing, mechanistic…
Music and Lyrics By Ken LaDéroute
Alone with my deeper side
I wait in the silence
At rest with a quiet mind
Aware of this moment
I let go of all the fear
I'm one with my Being
On purpose and ever clear
I'm open to seeing
My True Self
Sees the world with loving eyes
Free of judgment and conditions
Is awake and realized
Open to a…
