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Winning Over Fear Without Regrets

Very good post on fear by Joe Robinson. Fear is often debilitating but it doesn’t have to be so.  Fear in its essence is meant to be a reaction to danger.  Not a reaction to experiencing new things. Fear has gained so much power in our lives that it can send us into an anxiety attack with the mere thought of stepping outside our routine or what... [Read more]

Filling The Emptiness With Serenity

The below post by Mark Nepo discusses three important ideas: 1 – our journey in rediscovering who we truly are, 2 – the acceptance of life as is and 3 – finding love and peace in the struggle. Regardless of where we come from, the concept of being like everyone else and the acceptance of a formulaic idea of happiness get imbued into our psyche... [Read more]

The Truth About Positive Thinking

Positive thinking sells book, newspapers and magazines.  That’s it. I’m not down on being positive. I’m down on a simplistic approach to finding greater contentment in life. Let me explain what I mean: I don’t believe repeating I’m beautiful time and time again will actually get me to feel beautiful unless a lot of other personal work gets... [Read more]

Figure Out What You Want, Then Take Action

The first step in getting what you want is being clear about what you want.  Statements like “I just want to be happy” are useless because they do not include a specific goal or a specific method. Now, if I said I want to be happy by finding a partner then I would be able to start strategizing how to go about achieving what I want.  I could tell... [Read more]

The Three Most Powerful Words: I Love You

The below post by Dennis Merritt Jones talks about the importance of saying of hearing the words I love you.  In his blog, Dennis points out that the impact of these words is great even if they come from complete strangers.  I couldn’t agree more. While reading it I was reminded how much a touch, a nod or a word from a complete stranger while caring... [Read more]

Don’t Travel Alone The Aging Process; Learn From Others

I have always liked having older folks as friends.  I’m talking about people in their 80s and 90s.  The reason is pretty simple: they’ve been there and done that. At some point in our western social and cultural development the pendulum of wisdom swung from the elders to the young.  Experience became secondary to the glow of youth and in the... [Read more]

Mindful Living

The below post by Anne Peterson discusses the process of letting go of grand dreams – the ones often found in glossy magazines – of our young lives to embrace the lives we actually have. We live in a world where our sense of self-worth has become so intertwined with the idea of youth and high levels of financial success, that not being pretty,... [Read more]

Embracing Resilience

Even though Thanksgiving is behind us, I wanted to share the below post with you. “A Lesson in Resilience” discusses developing a positive attitude to change and obstacles using the pilgrims as an example. Life is made out of good moments and not so good moments.  Of course if it was up to us there would be no bad moments.  But it isn’t.  And... [Read more]

Uncaring Behavior Often Has Nothing To Do With Us

Interesting post below; it divides coming to the understanding that other people’s behavior often has nothing to do with us in a two step-process. The first step of course is to realize we are not the center of the universe — although many of us would like that to be the case.  The second is seeing people’s reactions in a deeper way; compassionate,... [Read more]

Learning To Forgive For Our Own Well-Being

I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness as it is something I have had to deal with plenty in my life; I’ve been hurt deeply by people very close to me. To deal with the aftermath of the hurt, I have gone through many thought processes such as:     Denial– It didn’t happen.  I’m making it up. Superiority – I’m better than... [Read more]

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