For the past two months, I’ve been trying a 4-minute workout routine that promises to give the same benefits as an hour at the gym. It really works.
Read MoreWhat We Do When We’ve Done Everything We Can and Feel We Should Do More (Chris Eldredge, Pat Steir)
When we’ve worked hard taking care of something and feel there is still more we should do, leaving us restless and worried, we employ this 10-word reality check, learned from a psychotherapist friend.
Read MoreCombine Summer Camp Pleasures with Personal Growth (and Digital Empowerment)
One of the most magical places I know of to take stock of life and transform it is Omega Institute, a true catalyst for change and possibility thinking. I’ll be teaching a workshop there this summer…
Read MoreTrees Ordained as Monks, Forest Bathing and A New Lexicon Helps Heal our Connection to the Natural World
Disconnection from nature is being recognized as the cause of widespread psychological trauma in modern life. A new lexicon and age-old practices are being used to heal it.
Read MoreThomas Merton’s “Small Message of Hope”
Trappist monk and theologian Thomas Merton addressed the difficulties and rewards of being oneself in the modern world, with heartening words on navigating the way through.
Read MoreBy viewing time as something incredibly delicious, would we feel like we have more of it?
A random sign got us wondering if shifting our view about time would, in fact, make us feel like we have more of it.
Read MorePlease Take Your Shoes Off! What’s Really On the Bottom of Your Shoes
Beyond notions of “better vibe”, there are some very good reasons to impose a “shoes-off policy” at home, including the mighty scary ones we’ve just discovered…
Read MoreHow To Change a Negative Habit
Over the years, I’ve learned that change doesn’t happen over night, but it WILL happen if I practice these five steps…
Read MoreHow to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell)
One of the very best things we’ve read recently is Jenny Odell’s ‘how to do nothing’, a thoughtful deep-dive into the fraught and very taboo idea of “doing nothing”.
Read MoreOpened at Random: Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
This morning we opened Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams at random and found this…
Read MoreWhy Napping Is Essential to Well-Being and How To Do It (with Haiku)
Sleep researcher Damien Leger is determined to dispell modern-day guilt about fatigue and napping, because, he says, it is an essential practice, not a luxury of the lazy or entitled…
Read MoreMartin Luther King, Jr on Resisting Violence to the Spirit
Martin Luther King’s Six Principles of Nonviolence go far beyond political activism and protest. They are a way of life, applicable on even the most personal and private level, Principle Five in particular.
Read MoreA Quieting Alternative to Meditation (Walt Cotten, Franz Kafka, Mary Oliver)
There is a very old, very simple practice that can do much to restore balance in our ever-on times. Franz Kafka described it perfectly over 100 years ago; Mary Oliver did recently…
Read MoreThe Slowdown: A 5-Minute Literary Once-a Day Multivitamin for the Soul
The Slowdown, a daily 5-minute long podcast from U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, is remarkable in its power to truly slow down time and transport you OUT of the busy mulit-tasking present.
Read MoreGreta Thunberg’s Fierce Clarity Gives Us Hope
In the face of seemingly unsolvable problems of our world, we’ve been heartened by the fierce activism, voice and presence of young adults, like sixteen year old climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Read MoreJocelyn Glie’s Newsletter: Ideas for Finding Creativity and Meaning Delivered to Your Inbox
Among the email newsletters I subscribe to, From the Curious Mind of Jocelyn K. Glei is one where I always find something that challenges my thinking and/or makes my life better.
Read MoreInstead of Resolutions, a Transformative Record of Surprise
While reflecting on the year gone by, I came across a unique way New Years can transform that is far more powerful than the usual resolutions.
Read MoreExperience Heightened Well-Being via the Primal Scent of Christmas Trees
Biologist David George Haskell’s explanation of what the primal scent from Christmas trees actually does to us will amplify your experience of this lovely free gift of the holidays.
Read MoreBalancing Advice from Thích Nhất Hạnh
When we read this remarkable quote from Thích Nhất Hạnh, first we thought, What great advice for caregivers. Then we thought, What great advice for being with anyone…
Read MoreA Simple Setting to Make Your Phone Less Addictive
I hadn’t realized just how addictive the colors of my phone are until I changed the its settings to Grayscale, the latest strategy in combatting phone addiction…
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