How do you feel right now as you’re reading this? Not just your mood, how does your body feel? What is it trying to tell you? Are your shoulders relaxed? Is your breathing steady? Are you straining your eyes, or tensing your jaw? Do you understand body language communication? So often we go through the […]
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“What would you do if you could not fail?” I’ve see this question emblazoned on t-shirts, posters, and bumper stickers – really any place where it can broadcast its inspirational message. I imagine it is supposed to be a message to fight fear, an empowering message that tries to get to the root of people’s
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All over the United States this winter there has been unpredictable, unexpected and generally unappreciated winter weather. Now, with March 20th just visible on the horizon, people are starting to seek out signs of spring. The bright spears of daffodil and crocus leaves, their green points poking through defrosting ground,their purple and yellow flowers blooming
I have been hiking with my son all winter this year, trying to make peace with a season that normally makes me want to hibernate. As the horizon of spring becomes more than just a dream of warmth (come on, groundhog!), I am still finding that winter has more to offer me, to all of
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Love is in the air, and with Valentine’s Day just around the bend, it’s that time of year when people either shop for flowers, cards and chocolates, or grumble about commercialized holidays that try to co-opt an emotion like love. I have to admit that, while I don’t subscribe to the idea of spending money
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Sleep is something that many of us don’t get enough of, but not something that we might immediately equate with happiness or positivity. Why not, I wonder? New parents know how enormously lack of sleep affects a person’s well-being, as do insomniacs, people with illnesses or conditions that disrupt their sleep, and those tireless folks
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One of my lovely and wonderful friends is departing for the island of Sri Lanka this month, to spend five weeks at an ashram, practicing mindfulness and meditation. Once I stopped plotting how I could sneak myself along in her suitcase, I started thinking about the details of her stay that she filled me in
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As we move through the first month of a new year, many of us will be making (or very consciously not making) resolutions for what we want to achieve in the next 11 months. Some people write their resolutions down, some have a vague idea in their minds of what they’d like to do or
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