Being in love is one of life’s most precious gifts we can experience. We float on air with dizzying thoughts. The sky looks bluer, love songs on the radio seem to speak directly to us, bland food tastes delicious. We get butterflies, have visions of rainbows and dream of unicorns in our sleep. We feel […]

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 […]

If the task of the first half of life is to put yourself out there to experience the world, the mandate of the second half is to make sense of where you have been and discover who are truly are.  Your first love, travel adventures, career, marriage, children – virtually all of life’s major experiences […]

Two monkeys in a glass cage are separated by a see-through barrier. Both are given the same task, for which they are rewarded a slice of cucumber. This process repeats over and over, with each monkey happily accepting the cucumber for their identical task. But then, one monkey is rewarded with a delicious grape while […]

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so! ~Shakespeare~ Have a look around, observe how nearly everyone around you is completely lost in thought. I see it everywhere, people drifting off in thought as if they are spaced out, dwelling in memories or anticipation of some event in the future. Practically […]

There are so many myths and misconceptions regarding the proper workout to achieve your fitness goals and overall wellbeing. Whether your focus is weight loss, burning fat or reversing the aging process (or all three!), your MUSCLES need to be an integral part of your routine with an emphasis on how to stretch, tone and build […]

***Dedicated to my dear Mother, rest in peace, who passed away exactly one year ago*** It is human nature to resist change and loss.  We prefer to keep things the same, often to our detriment.  We hold on to – even cling to – toxic relationships, bad jobs, unhealthy lifestyles.  The main driver for resistance […]

There is violence within each of us, it is in you and it is in me. Whether we are inherently born with it or it is produced by society does not matter, what matters is if we want to rid ourselves of this violence. But first we must acknowledge and be aware of the violence […]

It has been proven we can hold as many as six thoughts in our conscious simultaneously. We are not typically in this state of clarity (or chaos!) but rather more often holding several random thoughts and emotions in our mind without particular focus or specific detail, yet all within our field of awareness. We can […]

We all have an expertise in a certain area of our life, where we are proficient in this dimension of our daily routine and feel we have mastered this realm. After years of practice and discipline, you may now be brilliant in the kitchen, raising children, working out and/or your career. This is to be […]