Do you know those days when you feel a stirring in your heart. Perhaps you have dusted off a bicycle recently because of that stirring…
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When the Pandemic hit the US, we were ordered Stay “safe at home” to limit the spread of COVID-19. Many people immediately went stir crazy at the thought of not leaving their premises. I, however, have always enjoyed the solitude of weekends and school holidays…
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It is Friday June 3, 2016 and the California Institute for Women is in full institutional lock-down. A homicide occurred in Harrison B, the unit next door to mine. Full lock-down is just that, no movement, no work or school, no recreation, no showers…
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Modern society teaches us that the best measures of success are productivity and achievement. However, this perspective takes its toll on our health, especially when it comes to sleep.
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I always tell people “if you knew you were going to die next week, would you spend today cleaning and eating rice cakes?”
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So…there I was, sitting on the couch contemplating the universe. I do that quite often, contemplating that is. Most often the depth of my contemplation is just about flowers or my fingernails, but today I dove off the deep end into the whole universe thing…
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Managing our mind may sound overly simple, but at the most basic level, we DO have a choice over our minds. We really CAN choose to control what stories spin in our brains. However, choosing to control what occupies our minds takes patience, courage, and practice…
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I have a friend who chooses a word each year to focus on. I have admired this practice for several years but never got around to choosing a word. This year however, a word kept popping into my head, so I decided this was the year to give it a try. The word I chose is JOY...
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For me, my journey to true self-love and happiness began late in life and not until I was nearly age 52. After the loss of both my parents I had a “wake-up” call about my own health and the quality of my own experiences here on Earth School.
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Hope is hard work. I make this claim not only because there seem to be many people these days who feel “hope-less” or less “hope-full” than they did a little over a year ago, but I also hear from many who feel like it is a struggle to find anything to bring them hope.
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