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“Going Home” for the Holidays

How do we make visiting family over the holidays the best it can be? Stay out of the "family trance."

By |2012-12-19T09:03:27-08:00December 19th, 2012|

What Do You Want?

How aware are you of how you want? Is it a process that adds to your happiness?

By |2012-10-19T08:10:17-07:00October 19th, 2012|

Fund of Good Will

Harmony or good will in a relationship is like a savings account. Deposits are made, and sometimes withdrawals.

By |2012-10-12T12:52:57-07:00October 12th, 2012|

Mental Filters #2: Pace

Like many things we do, our pace of body, speech and mind are habitual. Every once in a while, our awareness of this pace and our flexibility with it, can make all the difference.

By |2012-10-07T08:54:51-07:00October 7th, 2012|

Mental Filters #1: The Senses

Knowing what we attend to and what we delete of the vast array of all we sense tells us important things about ourselves...

By |2023-12-12T19:00:47-08:00September 28th, 2012|

My Life Flashed Before My Eyes…or The Real To-Do List

So here's an oddly brutal exercise I find very useful... Imagine you're laying in bed one night asleep and a sharp pain wakes you. You are visited by a thought or a being that lets you know, without the slightest doubt, that you will be dead by morning and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it. At first you fight it and panic, [...]

By |2012-08-24T08:35:13-07:00August 24th, 2012|

Liking Peas, eating peas

You can make yourself eat peas, but can you make yourself like them?

By |2012-08-10T09:03:13-07:00August 10th, 2012|