***Holidays originates from Holy Days, a time for spiritual reflection*** Life is far too complex to compartmentalize your activities into three broad categories.  But it may be helpful to consider the motive behind all your endeavors and the ultimate benefit you derive as it relates to your Mind, Body and Soul. Because if you are […]

~A ship is always safe at shore, but that’s not what it’s built for~ What if you could enter into a new relationship with a guarantee it would not fail? Perhaps a new love affair, a business partnership, or simply your next career choice with a new company. Wouldn’t you take it if you were […]

Let me begin with the end: no one ever reaches the final stage of their life and thinks “it feels great to still be so angry at him/her.” So how do you forgive someone when every fiber of your being resists? We will all inevitably be wronged multiple times by various degrees in our existence, […]

Think of a recent time you faced imminent danger, whether real or not, and the automatic response your body triggers. I remember hiking on a trail and turning a corner to face a coyote just 25 feet away.  I immediately tensed up, fists locked and eyes focused with 20/20 vision. All senses were on heightened […]

Life is not easy without inner peace. But so many of us have it backwards as we try to change our external world in the hope of creating a peaceful life.  The reality is that when we find peace inside ourselves, the external world matters far less. We tell ourselves: if I can just get […]

Flash back to your first crush, your first real love, where the whole universe revolved around him or her. Every breath, every move, every moment an obsession as every love song on the radio spoke directly to you. The sky was bluer, the air was crisper, the food tasted better as the world was happy […]

Nearly 50,000 thoughts barrage your mind daily, inundating you with a flood of feelings and emotions:  thinking, musing, fantasizing, planning, anticipating, worrying, liking, disliking, remembering, forgetting, evaluating, reacting, story telling and fabricating reality to conveniently fit your own truth.  You are doing this all day, every day, nonstop mental commentary.  Even more remarkable, 98% of […]

In the 17th century, French philosopher Rene Descartes famously pronounced his philosophy of mind-body dualism, declaring that body and mind were two separate entities.  As a man of science, he struck a deal with the Roman Catholic Church: Descartes would focus on human anatomy, leaving the church to focus on caring for the mind and […]

Hey, isn’t that Jim over there? I’m sure he saw me, why didn’t he say hello? I bet he’s mad at me, because of what I said at the party. Whatever. I don’t really care about Jim anyways. But…is he really mad at me? In case you haven’t noticed, you have a mental dialogue going on […]

Summer is fast approaching with seemingly endless sunny days just around the corner.  It may harken us back to our glory days, reminding us of those long, lazy carefree days we enjoyed in our youth.  Those fond memories of summer felt like they would last forever with eternal downtime to just relax, play and daydream. […]