This video is from another Ted Talk. This time we hear from an athletic coach, Dr. Ivan Joseph, the athletic director the Varsity Soccer team at Ryerson University, on how to build self confidence. You might think that athletics and meditation practices have nothing to do with each other, but please, think again. Think of […]
Body Sensations and Vipassana Meditation
September 18, 2014 by
Eilona Ariel is a film maker and a vipassana meditator. She to the ten day vipassana training offered by Goenka in Nepal more than 26 years ago. She decided to make a film about body sensations and vipassana meditation with Ayelet Menahemi. In this Ted Talk held in Jaffa, Israel in 2013, she explains about […]
Generosity Leads to Happiness
September 17, 2014 by
The perfection of generosity (dana) is the first of six paramitas (perfections or virtues) taught by the Buddha. The Buddha taught that generosity leads to happiness and a whole lot of other benefits. Modern research is beginning to confirm this 2,600 year old wisdom tradition. The scientists are also telling us that generosity leads to […]
Change Your Frequency – Change Your Reality
September 14, 2014 by
Here’s a video that teaches you that if you change your frequency you change your reality. It is offered by the world-famous healer and energetic coach Christie Marie Sheldon… … where she talks about how to make lasting positive change that can affect your reality for good. The key she says is, “Shifting Your Vibration.” […]
Dan Gilbert, The Guru of Happiness
September 12, 2014 by
Dan Gilbert is the guru of happiness. Some people say that he is the world’s foremost expert on happiness. Then why is he talking about the psychology of your future self in this Ted Talk video? He come right out and asks, “Why do we make decisions that our future selves often regret?” He tells […]
The Power of Introversion
September 11, 2014 by
This Ted Talk video is about the power of introversion. The speaker is Susan Cain. She says, “When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.” Did you know that one-third to one-half of the population are introverts? Introverts feel more at home in a quiet, low key […]
The Basic Irrelevance of the Human Condition
September 10, 2014 by
Modern cosmologists have investigated our place in the universe and has found that our lives on earth are basically irrelevant. Thomas Merton recognized this long before it became a scientific fact. He wrote this in The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, which was published in 1975. This was almost fifteen years before cosmologists even proved […]
You Have Purpose
September 9, 2014 by
Carolyn Myss says, “If you have life, you have purpose.” Everyone is on her or his own path, whatever that may be. There is no one on earth that doesn’t have a purpose or a path. Meditation practices, the path to well-being, can help you find you purpose, can help you find your path. Remember, […]
Real Comfort – Cheri Huber
September 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Real comfort consists of being embraced in the unconditional love that animates all. Each of us gets to bring that comfort to one person—the “me” who has been promised so much and worked so hard in hopes of receiving. Now is the perfect time to fulfill those promises, and you are the perfect person to […]
Giving to Get – Tricycle
September 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Nancy Baker tells us to avoid giving to get. On Not Being Stingy | September 8, 2014 The One, or Oneness, as we might say in Zen, never tries to turn a profit from anything at all. It wouldnÂ’t even make sense. We, on the other hand, are always trying to turn a […]
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