9-21-13 Here’s the link to an article a dear friend sent me, suggesting it might be a good blog topic. It talks about what matters to people when they’re looking back on their lives. You’ll find the article here: http://www.purpleclover.com/relationships/875-what-dying-want-us-know-about-living/ I’m going to summarize what I got out of it. Most of my thoughts are trite …
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8 Minutes A Day For 8 Weeks
9/13/13 I make it a point to suggest things to my clients that have benefitted me. Ghandi’s ‘Be the change that you want to see in the world’ (rather than talking about it) makes a lot of sense to me. When I noticed that I was recommending Victor Davich’s intro to meditation, 8 Minute Meditation, …
Your Worst Enemy
September 5, 2013 In my last blog I wrote about your BFF (best friend forever), which is your PFC (prefrontal cortex). This week let’s look at what may be your worst enemy—drumroll please—your self-image! Surprised? We’re told from birth on that we need to shore up our self-image and our sense of self, right? Well here’s …
Your BFF
August 25, 2013 Who’d ever guess that your PFC (pre-frontal cortex) would turn out to be your BFF (best friend forever)!? Every time you’re confronted with the possibility of an immediate reward, and you DON’T respond to it the way you usually do, you’re strengthening your PFC. And this is a really good thing. Because …
Labels
August 14, 2013 A label describes something—a person, group, intellectual movement, etc Labels can help us find each other, create a sense of belonging, and give us a short hand for understanding each other and the world around us. Labels like the following can also separate, alienate, disconnect and limit our understanding of a person, …
Breaking the Rules
August 4, 2013 ‘Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly and not looking good while doing it.’ This may be one of the singular most important lessons I’ve learned. I was raised on the adage that ‘anything worth doing is worth doing well’. Belief in that one-liner has kept me from having as much fun …
Guilt Transformed
July 22, 2013 Lots of stuff out there – books, articles, videos – on guilt and shame and the importance of self-compassion. Today I’m tackling guilt. Guilt is a feeling that we’ve done something bad. I’m leaving shame for another post since it’s more of a feeling that we are bad…and handling our relationship with …
Feelings Aren’t Facts
July 2, 2013 Feelings are reactions—reactions to the world, to what life hands us, to our thoughts about what life hands us. At one time or another, most of us have acted out of a thought or feeling that we later look back on with tremendous dismay or remorse. “How could I have done that!? …
mindLESSness
June 18, 2013 On a Friday morning my insurance person said to me: “I’ll get back to you later today with the information, or Monday at the latest”. The next Wednesday I emailed him with a gentle nudge, deciding the clever, passive aggressive comment that occurred to me wouldn’t serve either of us. Turned out …
ACE
June 10, 2013 I’m coming to believe that an open heart transforms everything. When my heart is open the world changes. Sounds nice, but how??!! Accept/Commit/Expand (ACE) I set the stage by setting an intention to ACCEPT the world, and everything in it, as it is. I do that because every time something unpleasant shows up, or …