When you identify and show up for activities that matter to you, you are approaching them. Women needed to be able to recognize emotion and empathize, but men did not. Zero station means the head is engaged and has entered the vaginal canal within the pelvic bones. More often than …

This short circuit prevents you from filtering out false alarms. I'd like to knock down a few more institutions and concepts. What I'm referring to is the ongoing pattern of self-sacrifice at the cost of your personal health and well-being. As she shared her journey, I couldn't help remembering how …

When I asked my therapist, a neuroscientist who respects intuition, he said matter-of-factly, Your brain is simply replicating a daytime noise you hear. She decided to give it a few more months and if nothing happened, she would talk to her doctor. Teenagers and young adults are especially hard hit …

Do you really not have time to get things done, so the result is delaying the inevitable? Consider coming as a preventive measure, even if you have been maintaining your progress. I knew in my heart that this is exactly what Lauren would have wanted me to do: what I …

How often could we think back to a point in our lives when we just suddenly pretended we had forgotten something, or were flustered, and the sole purpose was to put the other person at ease? Every time you give energy out to others, you have to replenish. This coping …

We can simply look into his mind--through his words, or art, or science--and begin to vibrate. Don't ruin your on-time arrival by making a mad dash to the meeting with your important papers trailing behind you, only to anxiously ask your seatmate to borrow a pen. Milgram and others suggested …

Christ's teaching was simply to avoid the negativity (calibrated levels below 200), and the goal of his teaching was for his followers to reach Unconditional Love (cal. You don't need to calculate a long period either because 10 minutes is usually wholly sufficient. This meditation is meant to be relaxing …

Through practicing self-compassionate awareness, understanding, and actions, Ella learned that feeling or expressing anger did not mean she would be rejected, that it sometimes brought her closer to others, and it allowed her to live without constant fear of experiencing that emotion. Take up a project that requires grit to …

Red with black can indicate that the block has been hanging around for a while, and multiple layers of clearing might be needed over time. This same double standard seemed clearest to me in a New Yorker photo essay of world leaders gathered at the United Nations. Eventually, even the …

We've all heard the phrase, What goes around comes around. My word of caution is that you vet where you're buying your offset from. She had been at her post only a few days when she began to talk of the pleasure trips she was going to have now she …

It's like I have the flu--achy joints, chills, a headache, usually something gross and stomach related--but I don't actually have the flu. For example, we use others' facial expressions and tone of voice to make inferences about how they are feeling. Because I also work at my small square kitchen …

Frankly, I don't want to know you have the power to hurt me, either. Typically, within a more extensive system, a task is characterized in terms of service performed by individuals in a specific position, among others. When living in the energy of this expansive generosity, we feel a part …

Sometimes it seems like the easiest thing to do would be to avoid saying no altogether and saying yes more. Leaders cut through the noise to endorse themselves authentically but credibly while also promoting what's good for the whole company. Or vice versa, people come to me with a shoulder …

Your teachings might be what ensures that your children become the happy and successful people that you dreamed of when they were just babies in their cots. Most people had frozen microwave meals, sandwiches, or leftovers. Hence the entity in its inner consciousness in the present is a Quaker, feeling …

But the most important parts which follow will be those things that you think you know, but maybe have never really challenged before. There are other pressing questions: what determines personality? Helen Moses, age ninety, found the second love of her life in a Bronx nursing home, against gale-force resistance …

Notice that when the Authentic Self takes the wheel, you can hear curiosity, investigation, creativity, and generative thinking, as opposed to the Inner Critic, who reinforces fear and complacency. He abuses you and then he solicits your forgiveness and sympathy with feigned remorse. Brown the chicken strips, about 4 minutes …

In the end, the doctor's work is to assist his patient to die a good death. In the end, however, the most satisfying and powerful way to feel this connection is through creative activity. In the mythology of his people, there was a long-held belief that said that when you …

I am sure that most of my patients who realized for the first time that they had a terminal illness had a feeling of agony and anguish and viewed it as a deprivation of their future. Then he told me he had had sex with a coworker and how it …

She learned different relaxation strategies, ways to breathe into her anxiety and to observe it arise and pass away. Of course, dreams are just dreams- you should do whatever you want and know that no real harm can come to anyone in the real world based on events in your …

Sometimes if the other person objects, it may seem like they are unreasonable to some extent. They're like habit-grooves, and they get deeper every time you do the same thing. It will, however, take practice and consistency as you need to continually be alert for and aware of what is …

Place your finger at the top of your nose and up a little until you get to that point where your eyebrows would join, and this is the area where the third eye is located. You can't do everything, and you can't please everyone. Over the years, in almost all …

And there are still others who think you have to give but you don't get anything back, so they give and don't receive. Because you'll know you earned it with hard work and patience and downright stubborn mule persistence. They get caught in blaming themselves for past failures, and because …

One of Sigmund Freud's great, and almost entirely forgotten, peers and students was the French psychologist Pierre Janet. We are not talking about remorse-we are talking about shame. I actually look in the mirror and say what comes to mind, as I imagine the me from ten years in the …

Will it still require me to practice three to four hours each week, every week to attain this goal in a timely manner? Each student has a specific job to do when they arrive at the garden, whether that's taking care of the compost, checking the weather station, or monitoring …

Do you think it would be a sure thing to make money on your investments if you had some of the most brilliant minds in the world looking after your funds? Entitlement can cause people to scoff at identities like trans or genderqueer and to pathologize those who claim those …

If you use heavy makeup, you have to remove it before cleansing. Probably the largest and most striking example is that of the veterans of World War II, in which the experience of groups as well as individual combatants was horrific to the maximal degree. Do not be afraid to …

This puts you in a potential power struggle between you and your feelings, thoughts, and sensations. If he learns from the sorrow, he will begin to act right and have a more peaceful life. Equally, it's totally and completely fine to own and use just one. Imagine, on the other …

So I was surprised by how hard it was to get folks who worked for the company to stop texting about work on weekends, sending emails late at night, and working too many hours in general. Great listening skills can help your personal life as well. Perhaps he'd learned, wisely …

You are either honoured or shamed in response to clan or community. Countless times I have joined the family of a dying person around his or her bedside, all of us holding hands, praying, sharing loving stories, tears, and laughter. This helps you connect with others and nature by a …