Your Brain Power: Important Steps To Take Today
Monday, 09 September 2013
Build The Strength Within — the idea came to me as I witnessed my own struggle with tragedy and dramatic sorrow and knew that I had to find a way to take hold of my mind and salvage my own sanity and spirit. Every single day there are events that take us off on a
You want your best life?
Thursday, 05 September 2013
I do. I begin by giving thanks every single day for what I have and it includes: the ability to see; to hear; to smell; to feel; to move; and to do so without assistance of machinery or paid helpers or loved ones who have elected to pitch in as care providers. Although I am
Build upon your inner strength
Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Happiness comes in all sorts of packages but there is one package that never changes — YOU. The real trick is to be primed for happiness and to be intentional about it. How does that happen? It is not about smiling all the time and denying your feelings — quite the opposite. It is about
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Labor Day 2013
Monday, 02 September 2013
What an interesting concept — to honor the labor of others. Straight from Wikipedia, here is what we learn: “In the United States, Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute
That moment of sheer terror
Friday, 30 August 2013
It was not quite dawn, still dark outside and also dark within my house. I was awake enough to know I wanted to get rid of that morning mouth feeling so I ambled over to the toothbrush and paste. Innocently proceeding, I somehow rubbed bristles the wrong way and splashed toothpaste into my eye. Oh
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Help, I have fallen…
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Famous lines from a commercial that most of us have heard. Right? The strangeness of it is that we have been falling down our entire life — we began as toddlers, it is something we have learned to manage so that we don’t get hurt. However, as we move through the decades of our life,
Success with juggling
Monday, 26 August 2013
How many balls do you have up in the air? And how often? And for how long? Are you keeping track of what is where and when? How energizing is it for you to do this routine or is it draining? Some people thrive on this and make it their life’s focus. It
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Live and love and succeed
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
I’ve been recently fascinated. Yea. Weird. I find myself in a strange state of seeing people in need and knowing that goodness will help them and also help me. This experience has gotten fueled after spending an entire day solo in my garden pretending. Pretending what? The beauty is — whatever I wanted. No kidding,
What life teaches us
Monday, 19 August 2013
Joan Borysenko came into my world when I was in graduate school and she began working with Dr Herbert Benson as he was opening the first Mind Body Clinic at Havard. She wrote a book called GUILT IS THE TEACHER, LOVE IS THE LESSON, published in 1990. She also wrote MINDING THE BODY, MENDING THE
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When you think your life is over….
Friday, 16 August 2013
Life is full of surprises and yet I am never surprised at how people behave when they think their life is really over. When someone is coming to a close on this life experience, they talk about many of the same things and yet the focus is singular — I WANT MORE TIME. I