What Is Happiness?

When you're in the grip of a fear-driven adrenaline rush, try these quick solutions. Still, you can't throw everything into a giant pile and go through it only when you can no longer see the kitchen table or when your electricity gets turned off. Recounting the ways you used your …

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Focused Love

So when you get into bed, you spend the next half hour scrolling through social media or news click-bait. Thus, people can have outgoing personalities and be either rich or poor. Every time I define Living Skillfully to a friend, coworker, or women attending a workshop or seminar, a wonderful …

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Awareness Makes Piety Possible

There may also be lines around the eyes in the fake smile, and the cheeks may be gathered, it looks as if the eyes are shrinking, and the smile is real. If you don't have an heirloom, you can visit a make-your-own pottery store and create your own family keepsake …

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Curating Good, Healthy Sleep

I'll explain what a sleep centre is and what happens if you visit one, and conclude with a whistlestop tour of some of the gadgets and gizmos that you can use at home to find out more about your sleep and how to improve it. Meditation is a focusing of …

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Stay In The Present

During this time, we learn about the world--through formal, informal, and social education from those around us--find our place, and discover who we are. It's what makes us all individuals, and it's actually what allows us humans to be successful as a society - because our strength doesn't come from individuals …

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Inner Work = Outer Change

Refuse to sit still for self-inflicted verbal beatings any longer, and dam the flow of negative messages coming into your brain. Rather than accepting and learning to live with his own ambivalence, his Clotish reaction made the decision for him; Some of my Asian friends were similar to me, but …

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Don't Expect Attachment Every Day

It's the process of routinely turning our awareness and actions away from distraction and instant gratification and toward building our dreams, one piece at a time. Next to the positive rules in your life, write down how they work for you and help you with your energy and attitude. Reaching …

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How Can I Be Recognized?

Whilst the above applies to women having their second or subsequent baby, this does not mean that home is not safe if you are a 'low-risk' woman having your first baby. Though your loved one may wish to live at home, they may not like the idea of having outside …

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You Show Me Wrong From Right

With insulin resistance, we have a perfect storm involving two primary ingredients on which cancer cells thrive. Adolescence is a time during which important skills must be obtained in preparation for adulthood. When the heat is at its peak, then use attention to guide it up the back to the …

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Rush Away From Your Own Ones

One analysis of the nutrients in a dozen vegetables found that, between 1975 and 1997, average calcium levels dropped 27 percent, iron dropped 37 percent, vitamin A dropped 21 percent, and vitamin C dropped 30 percent. I don't want to tell anyone how they should feel about a plant. I …

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Don't Expect Communion Every Day

The alchemy of the body is almost complete - Yang forced its way into Yin causing the transformation of the Yolk Sac. When you treat everyone like they might be a decision maker in a future boardroom, you leave yourself open to every opportunity that might present itself. You cannot become …

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Its All About Layla

Drugs such as marijuana, which are used by so many (and greater access will likely increase their use), may have medicinal utility and can produce fewer problems than alcohol or opioids, but they too have negative consequences, especially for the developing brain of adolescents (and fetuses in utero) and when …

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Does Your Heart Pound Rapidly?

Next, remove the bottom leaf of the cut and make a stem with 4-6 leaves on top. For most of astronomer Carl Sagan's career, he was skeptical of the idea that consciousness could exist outside the brain, arguing (like many mainstream materialist scientists) that consciousness arises from brain activity: [The …

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The Resignation Approach

Expectation is just a system of shortcuts our brains have developed to get through life without stopping every five seconds to figure things out. I turned off that constant hum in 2017 when I broke free from the fictitious Instagram perfection cult. And I am for certain that I came …

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The Next Step

Bring your attention back to the awareness of the variety of colours, shadows and reflections. Self- control is one of the more obvious expressions of self- regulation, but there are others, such as how individuals participate in the mutual regulation of interpersonal relationships where no one person has complete control …

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The View From Jamaica

Because Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac, it was (and is) traditionally used to get rid of things and to banish them before the next moon cycle through the zodiac begins. By doing this you can track progress and identify any areas that still need attention. If you …

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Don't Be A Pretty Cheerleader

When this happens, knowing how to deal with solitude becomes extremely important, as it helps us avoid falling into depression and despair. Most of their interactions involved a crisis situation where he demanded an immediate reaction and resources from her team. You need new ways of thinking that don't come …

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What Do You Look Like .

We don't need an outside agency to point out our behavioral danger zones, or urge us to toe the line, or even hear our nightly scores. Displacement Placing a feeling or action toward oneself on another object or person Being angry at yourself and kicking the dog Keep a close …

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Offering Words Of Encouragement

In my article Parenthood Without Hassles--Well Almost, I included the Child's Ten Commandments. It does not permit cruelty to man or animal in any manner or for any reason. You'll find some of my favorite tasty recipes that are easy to make at home, as well as easy breakdowns of …

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Giving Up Submission For Lent

Like a thief outside of your palace doors, they are too afraid of what they may find inside. At about mile 13, I was already tired, so Jamie and I started a walk-run strategy. And while supporting your clients, you may have begun to think deeply about existential realities that …

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