Living in the present moment can significantly enhance focus and performance, as shown by athletes like Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods. By adopting the 'What's Important Now'...
Mastering one's creative intuitive power can lead to profound personal transformation. By trusting in our innate abilities and embracing change, individuals can pursue their...
A recent study reveals that childhood experiences of violence, abuse, and neglect can significantly accelerate biological aging and impact health outcomes. Researchers found that...
New research reveals that proactively offering help in the workplace can lead to negative outcomes for both helpers and recipients. Management professor Russell Johnson explains...
Research highlights the crucial role of community environments in shaping early childhood development. The Kids in Communities Study identifies key factors that contribute to...
For centuries, literacy meant learning to read. Then it meant learning to write. Today it demands a third skill that no classroom has ever made mandatory: learning to think. Not...
Some rules protect us, while others quietly limit our choices, creativity, and self-trust. By learning to distinguish necessary rules from outdated expectations, we open the door...
Life can be filled with unexpected delays and frustrations, but these experiences might be part of a greater plan. A touching story illustrates how a couple's visa delays...
The concept of the world as a mirror suggests that our perceptions and experiences reflect our inner state. When we encounter negativity, it may indicate unresolved issues within...
Forgetting to do or to say things happens to all of us sometimes.
The Lion King is a movie about a young lion cub named Simba, who idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and is eager for his own royal destiny.
When many people think about making a social impact, they do not think that this change can extend to themselves and their life’s work. On the one hand, it feels exciting and worthwhile to take on a worthy cause, and on the other, it can feel too time consuming and overwhelming.
When love, lust and all things in between come calling, dating apps appear to be the only way to meet new people and experience romance in 2019.
Injury is the leading cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents, accounting for over 60% of all deaths in this group. Firearms are the second leading cause of death among U.S. children and adolescents, after car crashes. Firearm deaths occur at a rate over three times higher than drownings.
If any nationality is followed to its roots, there will be an Earth-based society with its own form of shamanic healing. Shamanism is a spiritual-healing practice (not to be confused with religion) at the foundation of all indigenous, Earth-based, societies. In short, shamanism mends where the laws of nature have been broken. The spiritual illness of “soul loss” is a universal shamanic concept.
For all of human history, babies have been born where their mothers lived – whether in a house, hut or cave.
The deaths of twins in the backseat of their father’s car is yet another reminder of how tragedies can occur when the brain goes into an autopilot mode and loses awareness of crucial events.
People often say that babies are like little sponges — with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily.
Imagine that your son Tommy is about to turn two. He is a shy and sweet little boy, but his behaviours can be unpredictable.
Have you heard this tale? In ancient times, an escaped slave hid in a cave only to encounter a wounded lion. Although afraid, the man helps the lion, removing a thorn from its paw.
People travel to the Amazon to learn from the shamans or to India to practice yoga to expand their minds’ capacities. They delve deeper into the knowledge of the people and nature of the Himalayas, and they replace conventional diet and medicine with their organic and holistic equivalents.
For many of us, the idea of sitting quietly is painful. Many of us like being busy. In our American culture, we are applauded for checking as many items as we can off our to-do lists. It makes us feel we have accomplished much, that we’re going places fast. But many of us are running on empty. We are just whirling, twirling.
Dehumanizing language often precedes genocide. One tragic example: Extreme dehumanizing language was a strong contributor to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
When we hear that a poor person scammed others out of money, we may attribute this behavior to their poverty, rationalizing that the person violated ethics and the law because they needed the money.
Hypersanity’ is not a common or accepted term. But neither did I make it up. I first came across the concept while training in psychiatry, in The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise (1967) by R D Laing.
In this essay I will explore another view of what modern people can draw from the ceremonial approach to life. This alternative is not a substitute for the rational, pragmatic approach to solving personal or social problems. It is a reunion of the ceremonial with the pragmatic built upon a profoundly different way of seeing the world.
When you have begun seeing through new eyes, it might still appear to others that nothing about you has changed. However, you know inside yourself that everything has changed. A Zen proverb says: Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water; after...
When one of my coaching clients complained to her doctor that she was depressed, he diagnosed her as having a personality disorder and referred her to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist told her she did not at all have a personality disorder; she was just depressed. She talked through her feelings and walked out of the session feeling liberated from the burden of a label.
Students who feel a greater sense of belonging with their peers, family, and school community are less likely to participate in bullying, according to new research.
Have you ever had a dream that you wanted so deeply, but it just did not seem to be coming forth for you? I would like to give you the possibility that, right as you are reading this article, details are being put into place to allow your dream to come true. It is just about believing, trusting, and keeping your vision.
Negative moods can linger and affect overall well-being, but identifying their triggers...
A rare celestial formation is quietly reshaping the foundations of everything we know —...
You don't need a week in silence at a mountain retreat to feel spiritually alive again....
Recent research reveals that social power can amplify the toxic aspects of narcissism,...
Mastering four simple rules can transform communication in personal and professional...
The inner child represents a vital part of our emotional self, often overlooked in...
Worrying about loved ones can sometimes be counterproductive, reinforcing fears rather...
Most of us have been taught to treat hope like a consolation prize — something you reach...