Help, I have fallen…

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,
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Success with juggling

  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

What life teaches us

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

When you think your life is over….

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

When it comes to the discussion of faith…

People often talk about the problems with organized religion instead of placing the focus on their soul. This is a mistake. Any time there is conversation about what human beings are involved in, there is an opportunity for pathology to surface. Pathology is the maladjustment to this life, to this reality of what is accepted

Anxiety and awareness

What we know about anxiety is that it causes stress — it is an experience of the mind that makes the person hyper aware of their body and how uncomfortable it feels. The experience is awful. However, the experience is in the mind and it can interpreted in many ways — there are choices for

Having Faith, Finding Happiness, Meeting with Success

There are as many ways to land upon happiness as there are people on the planet. We each have our own unique perspective about what it means to us. Meaning shifts according to our mood, our state of mind, the way we are feeling physically. For a patient with pneumonia, being able to catch your

Successful

Google the word and there are 433,000,000 results for you to review. The opening one defines the concept for us as follows — thank you Google. suc·cess·ful /səkˈsesfəl/ Adjective Accomplishing an aim or purpose: “a successful attack on the town”. Having achieved popularity, profit, or distinction. Synonyms prosperous – lucky – fortunateThe questions is however

Escaping the cycle of stress for happiness

Stress is a common feature in the lives of Americans. Stress is prompted in our daily lives through whatever our private, work, financial, and relationship scenarios are and surveys indicates that “…77% of Americans’ stress levels are causing them to experience a range of unpleasant physical symptoms. Stress can manifest itself in stomach upsets, headaches,

Moving into a zone of financial comfort

The idea of financial comfort seems like a dream that is impossible for most people — American or otherwise. However, this is a myth. Financial comfort has nothing to do with how much money you have but it has everything to do with how you deal with money overall. I call it The Fiscal Comfort
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