Being a teenager is getting tougher by the minute. One of their biggest hurdles is making sense of a world that bombards them with messages about how they should look and feel and behave that don’t align with their own experiences of life. At the same time, they’re navigating significant physical, cognitive, and emotional changes,…
Notice how our bodies tense up and our minds shut down at the first signs of resistance? Something happens that rubs us the wrong way and all bets are off. What someone says, does, doesn’t do, might or might not do triggers us, and we can’t make peace with it. Resistance is a reaction to…
As we go through life, consider the opportunity cost associated with each choice we make. Opportunity cost is an economic term, and it represents the value of our next best option. And we love our options, feeling fortunate to have so many varieties of toothpaste to choose from. Factoring opportunity costs into decisions large and…
While we all want lasting happiness, there are about as many different ways to go about getting it as there are people in this world. So, we’re going to narrow happiness down to two main sources: external or internal. When we look externally, or outside ourselves for happiness, it’s called object referral. When we seek…
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. The first verse of that song by Eliphalet Oram Lyte tells us exactly how to live in tune with nature’s rhythms. ROW, or engage with life, with your mind, body, and spirit. YOUR boat, not someone else’s. …
Experiencing life is better when we identify more with the sky and less with the clouds. How we perceive ourselves and our experiences reveals our approach to life. When we see ourselves as the sky, we identify as pure awareness, steadfast in our existence. It’s our awareness that has the experience of our minds and…