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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Our daily motivations are guided by pleasure, pain and fear: Seeking pleasure, avoiding pain and driven by fear. Fear itself plays a key role in all we do: Fear of loss, fear of what tomorrow brings (anxiety), fear of not keeping up with expectations, fear of not being loved, etc. It’s such a vital driver […]

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 […]

Surrender is such a powerful tool to help us towards inner peace. It is the simple but profound wisdom of acceptance rather than opposing the flow of life. Surrender is like a fish finding the current and going with it, rather than trying to swim against it. It is to relinquish all that inner resistance […]

We look at our world right now and see so much pain. It is incredibly sad and yet we still have a choice on how we hold pain and suffering, both ours and others.  This pandemic has disrupted all our lives, to be sure, and transformed our daily existence. But we also each face inevitable […]

This is not my story but, rather, a story that pertains to all of us. As we all try to manage our lives on our personal journey – the struggles and challenges that confront us – unbeknownst to us, there is a higher purpose to our daily existence. A far greater calling. But we cannot see […]