Here is another quote from Alex Lickerman, MD that teaches us how to transform challenges into medicine. When Silvia Boorstein talks about the first noble truth of suffering, she calls it the noble truth of challenges. “From the Buddhist perspective, I told him, all of us have the capacity to make use of any […]
Prayer for the Twenty-First Century
June 24, 2015 by
This Prayer for the Twenty-First Century was composed by John Marsden. It was choreographed and performed by the Dandelions Dance Company. The background music was from Ashana’s Ave Maria. I listen to this recording on my iPhone quite frequently. May the road be free for the journey, May it lead where it promised it would. […]
Just Be Happy!
June 22, 2015 by
Here are two amazing quotes that tell us to just be happy! The first one if from Swami Satchidananda whose popularity among yoga students in the 1970’s was phenomenal. Seekers like Dr. Dean Ornish sought out this yogi above all others. He founded the world wide Integral Yoga Institute. I knew many of his followers […]
Heal Your Life: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy
June 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Heal Your Life: Guided Meditation. Today’s guided meditation will take you on a miraculous journey that’s meant to help you heal all areas of your life. It will help you cleanse your physical and emotional aura; release old blocks and toxins; let go of fear-based attachments and heal past-life issues that might be holding you […]
Relaxing in the Body of Meditation – YouTube
June 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Some of the earliest meditation instruction — from the Buddha himself — emphasizes the centrality of body and breath in the process of relaxing into deeper states of awareness and realization. Will Johnson has been “obsessed” with these teachings of the Buddha for decades, and is extremely skillfull in passing the wisdom along to contemporary […]
How to Transform Suffering into an Opportunity for Growth
June 19, 2015 by
Here we have more words of wisdom from Robert Emmons. This lesson is on how to transform suffering into an opportunity for growth. He quotes Abraham Maslow, who we heard from recently in The Creative Spirit Of The Self-Actualizer last month. It continues on the gratitude theme from A Gratitude Practice to Increase Happiness from […]
Jon Kabat-Zinn On Mindfulness In Healing
June 17, 2015 by
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn spoke last year (in 2011) at Dartmouth College. The topic of his speech is “The Healing Power of Mindfulness.” Some of the ways we use our minds includes worry about things that haven’t happened yet and planning what will happen next. He said, “In this moment, your life is just like this!” Recent […]
A Gratitude Practice to Increase Happiness
June 16, 2015 by
Robert Emmons has been investigating the psychological effects gratitude on happiness. One of his studies utilized a gratitude practice to increase happiness and health. Emmons divided the participants into three groups. The group called the gratitude condition kept a weekly journal about five things they were grateful for. The group called the hassles condition wrote […]
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