Power – Tracy Cochran

Standing (or Sitting) in Our Personal Power

Tara Protecting from the Eight Fears, Kham Province, Eastern Tibet; 19th century Pigments on cloth, Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, F1997.15.1 (HAR 237).

At times, everyone faces the darkness of the unknown. Practicing presence can help us connect to our personal power. Once at the Rubin Museum, I was asked to talk about power. And not just power but a specific embodiment of power. The image that was to illuminate my talk featured the Fifth Dalai Lama ofContinue reading “Standing (or Sitting) in Our Personal Power”

The Power that Reveals

Zoltan Tasi, "Penshurst Place & Gardens," Penshurst, United Kingdom via Unsplash

Now seems a good time to gently remind people that presence can be a refuge and resource. On paper, it may not seem like much. The Oxford dictionary defines presence as “the state or fact of existing, occurring or being present.” This seems so rudimentary, just bare existence, as if you are showing up atContinue reading “The Power that Reveals”