As a facilitator/teacher of the beautiful practices of meditation and mindfulness, I am seeing more and more that any moments of awareness we can give ourselves during the day can be powerful and redirect us to a less stressed and more connected place. This can happen whether you decide to do a sit down session ... Continue Reading »
Global Wisdom
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I didn’t want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure. Perhaps Mother’s Day will come to mean something to me as I grow even dottier ... Continue Reading »
Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice, a few by social pressures, and a couple by habit. This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of handicapped children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of handicapped children are chosen? Somehow I visualize God hovering over Earth selecting his instruments for propagation with great ... Continue Reading »
Pilgrimage… it’s a very interesting word. By definition pilgrimage means: 1. A journey to a sacred place or shrine. 2. A long journey or search, especially one of exalted purpose or moral significance. I am going to Iona, Scotland, mid-May, to experience the gift of looking inward and to take a deeper look into my ... Continue Reading »
Uggg… I hate to be the one to inform you but chances are pretty high that you do. AND, that your beloved noggin is dishin’ out high levels of stinking, putrid thoughts right now. Am I writing this to make you feel negative, corrupt, tarnished!? If you are like most of us, you can do ... Continue Reading »
Gurus are great Yogis who teach the wisdom and practice of Yoga, and how to integrate practice into your life. Yet if you really think about who and what has taught you things that turned out to be truly significant, you realize that life sends all sorts of teachers. They may not even know what ... Continue Reading »
A sexual frequency difference is a stubborn problem in couples pledged to monogamy. Fun and games are the opposite of the serious deadlock when you’ve been fighting over something so intimate with someone so unfeeling. But game theory can help solve the problem. Play this game: For years, my husband has run training groups for ... Continue Reading »
Everyone agrees meditation is a good thing to do. Not everyone is able to establish a practice. In fact, many people think of practice as a very serious undertaking that demands more time, effort and concentration than they have to give. Well, it ain’t necessarily so. My own meditation practice – and I’ve been practicing ... Continue Reading »
A family was eating in a restaurant. Out of nowhere, their three year old squealed with glee and said, “Hello mister.” The source of his delight was a man with a tattered rag of a coat, dirty, greasy and worn. He looked like he lived on the street. His hands waved and flapped. “Hi there, ... Continue Reading »
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.~Leo Buscaglia Touch is our primary language of acceptance and belonging, safety and security. Human infants need touch (skin-to ... Continue Reading »
Finding and creating your life’s work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what ... Continue Reading »
A few girlfriends and I have recently started scheduled lunches together. It is a time for us to get together to talk, laugh, connect, vent, and eat!! We are able to communicate about new loves, work issues, life transitions, and anything else that may come up in our lives. Our lunches are a space of ... Continue Reading »
A 50- something year old white woman arrived at her seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn’t want the seat. The seat was next to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The woman said “I cannot sit here next to this black man.” The ... Continue Reading »
The first time I heard the phrase “choose your attitude” was in the late 1990s or early 2000s when the large corporation I worked for had us implementing the concepts from a book, and movie called “Fish.” Fish was based on the “world famous” Pike Street Fish Market in Seattle Washington. This story was well ... Continue Reading »
I want to ask about your day before your day begins not “How was it?” but rather “How will it be? What will you do? What will you want or need? How can I help?” I want your day to unfold like origami in reverse un-creasing itself losing its shape and flattening back into beautiful ... Continue Reading »
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