Own and Create Your Future

Are We Afraid of Our Impending Future? The future remains a mystery to us, and because of that essential fact, we can feel afraid of it.  When we ‘re very stressed we can even perceive the future as a threat to our survival – and yet, we have no real power to stop it. Can …

The Key to Releasing the Past

Our Unhealed Past Forces Us to Become the Victims of Our Lives We cannot shake the past – it is part of who and what we are – and yet life conspires, I think, to inspire and even force us to always transcend and transform it.  When we can’t complete the past we have no …

Be Your Own Valentine

How Does the Meaning of February Holidays Bring Us to Our Own Self-Healing and Transformation? Valentine’s Day has rolled around again.  I find it most enlightening to note which months holidays fall, particularly in view of ancient history; and see how the timing and the combined meaning can offer us greater opportunities for self-healing and …

Freedom from Stress

Stress Can Be A Killer According to Hans Selye in his ground-breaking book, Stress and Distress, first published in the fifties, when we experience stress, we immediately go into “flight or fight”.  In other words, when we experience stress, we label that as a threat, and our “knee jerk” response is to jump to either …

Balance and Healing is a Breath Away

Can We Simply and Profoundly Offset the Killing Effects of Stress in Our Lives? Many times when I talk with clients who are very stressed and compromised in centering themselves (and for many compelling reasons!) about practicing relaxation and deep breathing exercises, they tell me they have tried it and it is too hard, they …

The Simple Key to Transformation

You Can Profoundly Support Self-Healing Through Journaling Take pen to paper, and start writing.  Writing your thoughts, feelings, hopes, fears, dreams, life record – any and all of the above – has been said to be the single act we can take to transform our lives. Research shows that journaling promotes healing on all levels.  …

Meditate in Minutes

How is to Become a Being of Presence? Meditation has been called a mindfulness practice.  I was recently asked what that means, and how we can most easily adapt this ancient art of presence, as I call it, for greatest benefits to better be in the world today. I first found myself considering what I …