How do your beliefs affect your health? How can you contribute to healing with renewed and conscious behavior? A recent lecture by a Taoist shed light on sometimes overlooked attitudes that either promote healing or keep us identified with illness or dis-ease. Zhenzan Dao says that it is important to address the illness and all… Read more »
Last week I fulfilled a long-time dream – my daughter and I went to the Galapagos Islands. It was a spectacular trip spending 5 days on a boat with 15 other people. We hiked on lava fields with huge crevices and snorkeled with white tipped sharks (who were not hungry, we were assured), marine iguanas,… Read more »
We try so hard to maintain the status quo, but where would we be without contrast and opposites? If we never felt sad, how would we know what it felt like to be happy? If we were never hungry we wouldn’t feel the satisfaction of being satiated. Would we appreciate the immense variety of tastes… Read more »
Chinese medicine is inextricably connected with mind and body, nature and soul. Our emotions are not separate from seasons, experiences and thought, and it is believed that states of dis-ease can occur from dampness, dryness, wind and cold. Far Eastern philosophy, as explained by my qigong teacher, has some things to say about anger… Read more »
Life is like a football game. You start in the middle and try to move the ball toward the goal. The quarterback trusts the halfback to receive as he intended, but there is a fumble, a recovery, an overthrow or missed opportunity. Maybe the pass just goes wild having lost its direction and focus. Betrayal,… Read more »
Here’s a thought to help a relationship succeed. Allow yourself and your partner to change. That’s it…pure and simple. It used to be a compliment to hear “I love you just the way you are. Don’t ever change.” Maybe it made you feel safe and loved. But, seriously, did you expect to never learn and… Read more »
These times of conflict and vastly differing opinions offer challenges for each of us. Maybe you are feeling it, too. Where is the balance between speaking your mind and self-indulging rantings? When is it better to speak out and be involved and when is the time to step back and seek inner peace? I think… Read more »
Do you have trouble quieting down to meditate? Does it seem like everyone else knows how to do it? Is it frustrating that you have difficulty doing that simple thing? It’s not just you. Me, too. Here’s how it usually goes when I sit down to rest or meditate. I lay back in a reclining… Read more »
Have you ever been plagued with troubling thoughts? My friend says that there is a dark attic in his brain and he keeps it locked because he is afraid to go into that room. Here’s another way to look at it. There are times when those thoughts pop up into our consciousness and other times… Read more »
It’s a new year and you made a promise to yourself to exercise. You are so into it in January, February is a little too cold to go to the gym, come March and you forgot the passion that you had on that December night when your brain was foggy. Don’t stop!!! Any kind of… Read more »