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Self Care CornerSelf Healing with Lemons
Lemons. It’s the season for them. Do you know why you should be paying attention? Adding them to your diet can make a difference in how you look and feel, and also plays a major role in preventing disease. It's an easy first step to begin healing yourself! After...
Noticing…How to Calm Down
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Is life moving too fast? Sometimes all we need is a few minutes to create a little space for ourselves. Improve your sleep, attitude and productivity with this quick exercise that changes your perspective and helps you to calm down. Sit...
There’s No Trying in Meditation!
You’re ready to start taking care of yourself. You want to find ways to handle stress. Someone mentions meditation. No! That’s not for you. Or is it? You might be imagining yourself sitting on a pillow with your eyes closed, trying to attain some zen-like state. When...
Don’t Worry. Be Happy
Happy 2014! What's that? You're not very happy? Then it's time to make a new kind of New Year's resolution: put your happiness before anything else. Have you found that ideal partner? Do you have a great family and supportive friends? Do you like what you do? Do you...
Love and Death
I wasn't going to write this. I had something very different in mind for this blog. But then something happened. A young man died today. His death touches the hearts of two people in my family: my brother, whose best friend is the young man's father, and my nephew,...
Pause to Look Up
A few years ago, I started a practice of "Silent Sundays". Imagine the daily life of a monk who has made a vow of monastic silence. That was me. At least it was me one Sunday a month. No phone calls, computers, music or conversation. I'm not sure it ever really lasted...
Illness as Teacher
I've recently had a great opportunity. A serious eye infection left me with little to do but sit in a dimly lit room and take antibiotic eye drops every thirty minutes. I never thought those minutes would pass so quickly when doing, well... nothing, but each time my...
What We Don’t Need
I love Pema Chodron. She has a way of making things seem simple. She says we cause our own misery. I'm guilty. I've turned perfectly harmless situations into what I think is terrible. Then I feel awful. I get so focused on how life affects me or others that I lose...