Zen-Moments is: personal development with a creative, sometimes idealistic, often visionary, esoteric slant.
It is motivated by decades of the deeply challenging personal experience, of a compassionate, curious, sensitive, adventurous, esoterically minded, high IQ underachieving, old soul. This is definitely not a rehash of your popular self help books — it is 100% homegrown.
This site will help you overcome problems and build a better life, by deepening your awareness and creative thinking. It will also bring more beauty and power into your life, by stimulating your sense of mystery, and empowering your intuitive and visionary qualities.
“Zen-Moments encourages experiential growth — not intellectual knowledge.”
Its approach to self actualization, will help you to realize that a sensitive nature, far from being a weakness, will be your greatest strength. It will open a door to deeply rewarding life experiences and relationships. Your part is to supply: your curiosity, courage, commitment to action, an open mind, and most importantly an open heart. Zen-Moments encourages experiential growth — not intellectual knowledge.
“What I hear I forget. What I see I remember. But what I do I understand.” - Confucius
The name Zen-Moments describes that zone of clarity, discovery, and creativity, that you enter that when you remain present and accountable in each moment, despite the tendency to drift or the desire to escape. It is the key to overcoming difficult times, and the essence of all personal growth. The name is also a reminder that you don’t need to fix your whole life all at once. This moment is where the power is. It is enough.
My name is John Rocheleau. I started Zen-Moments because I want to help others in areas where I have been troubled, and to map a route to some of the depth and beauty that I have been fortunate enough to experience. I have been what you might call a sensitive person since I was a small child, and I have spent a lifetime navigating the challenges and rewards of that.
“I’ve also learned how easy it is for the sensitive and the creative to live alienated, lonely lives.”
I am an avid explorer of the human spirit, the emotions, creativity, relationship, career, and consciousness. I’ve learned that life is larger and more mysterious than we commonly imagine. I’ve also learned how easily, sensitive and creative people can slip into alienated, lonely lives. I hope that this site helps to change that, because it’s the creative, the sensitive, and the visionary in each of us that holds our promise for a better life.
Imagine for a moment, that you live in a world guided by wisdom and celebration of mutual growth, beauty and peace, and strength of spirit. Now, I’m a realist; I know we’re a long way from that — but we are a heartbeat away from each step towards it.
Founded on over 25 years of experience and training (that some might argue is impractical), Zen-Moments celebrates and develops your creative-intuitive difference, and helps you deal with the problems a sensitive nature can bring.
Some benefits you might derive from Zen-Moments are…
- Creativity: Discover your natural creative drives and learn to use them constructively in your life and work
- Emotional Intelligence: Learn to accept, enjoy, respect, and manage your emotions
- Intuition: Develop your instinctive “read” of people’s feelings, and deepen your awareness of life by strengthening your subtle senses
- Empowerment: Tap the incredible power of “NOW” by being present and engaged in each moment
- Imagination: Your imaginations and dreams are the root of your happiness and success — choose them and use them
- Meditation: Sharpen, deepen, and calm your mind using the science of meditation
- Authentic Living: Learn to value and express who you really are in your life and in your career
- Energy Healing: Learn about energy healing and internal energy cultivation
- Peace: Contribute to world peace by first finding self-acceptance and understanding
- Relationship: Build lasting romantic relationships
- Overcome Depression: Learn practical ways of lifting the darkness without drugs
- Career: Convert your employment into a source of joy and personal growth
- Mind-Body: Enjoy the harmony and creative insight gained when your mind and body work as one
- Happiness: Build toward unconditional happiness and peace of mind
A powerful simplicity and beauty rests at the core of life, and at the core of every person. As you expand your awareness and open your heart in a structured way, you realize this.
When you gain this ability, you understand others on a deeper level, and you are able to relate meaningfully. Our desire for happiness is our primary motivator, but we too often grab at substitutes. When you can see and feel that essential desire, regardless of the masks people wear, you can open a door to genuine communication.
Some snippets from my background include…
- The recipient of the love, discipline, and wisdom extended in many workshops
- 25+ years in meditation practice
- 25+ years in mind-body integration and internal energy practice
- 30+ years in marriage — to the same person
- Workshop facilitator and group trainer
- Former freelance personal development writer for business magazines
- Past competitive runner and cyclist
- Professional visual artist since 2001
- Survivor of a 10 year severe depression sans medication
- Artisan woodworker (full-time) for several years until injury closed shop on me
- Stumbled through a humbling mid-life crisis
- Wilderness canoeist and alpine hiker
- Gifted with a few congenital conditions; notably a spinal problem, then an inner ear disorder, that caused me to rethink my life and livelihood
- Long-term, profound, childhood experiences, that ignited the fire in me to explore life deeply, despite their fearful and disturbing nature
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Ciao,
John
