Real Happiness
February 10, 2011
By Sharon Salzberg
Many years ago I was wandering through the narrow alleyways of the marketplace in the Old City of Jerusalem when I heard a merchant call out to me, “I have what you need.” A thrill went through my entire body, and I excitedly turned toward him thinking, “Wow, he has what I need.” Then I realized: Wait a minute. First of all, I don’t need anything. And secondly, how would he know he has what… Read More >
I Had My Inner Critics Arrested and So Can YOU!
January 20, 2011
By Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
My newest book, “Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity” was just released from New World Library (I love them!) in November. While on the book tour in Arizona, I appeared on a morning TV show. Soon after, my inner critics all showed up to tell me how I wasn’t “good enough” and other mean things. After the show, I stopped at a grocery store and noticed a police officer… Read More >
Vote for Your Thoughts
January 4, 2011
By Laurie Gerber
You have the right to vote for which thoughts you want to listen to and which ones you want to ignore. Usually it’s easier to convince my clients they can choose how to act than to convince them they can change how they think. Thinking just seems so automatic that we believe we can’t change it. The truth is we are not very talented at controlling our minds because we don’t practice, and we don’t… Read More >
New Year’s Intentions
December 31, 2010
Each year at this time I sit down and write many drafts of my new year’s resolutions. This year I’m changing it up a bit. Instead of resolutions, I’m writing intentions. Instead of making a long list (most of which I don’t stick to or even remember for that matter), I’m focusing on the power of three. After all, three is a holy groovy number. Rather than burying my intentions in my journal, I’m posting… Read More >
Love List: How to laugh instantly
December 22, 2010
Stress Jockey, The holiday season can be very jolly, merry and all that uplifting jazz. It can also make you want to drink whiskey like a friggin’ sailor! Family gatherings (when Aunt Bessie doesn’t talk to Uncle Jack – possibly because she screwed his brother), 5,000 office parties (frequented by people who tell you how great you are then steal your ideas) and big shopping lists on small budgets (aren’t there enough snow globes and… Read More >
Manifesting and Allowing During the Holidays
December 17, 2010
By Terri Cole
This time of year can kick up tons of feelings for people based on past experiences. The idealized holiday scenes we are incessantly bombarded with can leave any person exhausted and feeling lack. The commercialization of the holidays with the subtext, “If you don’t give stuff, you don’t really love,” is enough to give me the bah humbugs! So how to de-stress the holiday mess, as I like to call it? Every year at this… Read More >
The Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was 30
July 27, 2010
By Guest Blogger
A Baby Boomer’s Letter to Millennials and Gen Xers Fifty isn’t what it used to be. For my generation, it’s like a brand new decade. Because we are living longer, healthier lives, I may reach 100. I’ve lived a great life so far and have even bigger plans for its second half. However, I lived too many years chained to The Man. I thought the American Dream meant consumption, and I bought it – hook,… Read More >
Love List: Chandeliers & Airstreams
July 21, 2010
A Love List is a reminder of glass half-full/brimming over living and lusciousness. Love Lists tap you on the shoulder when you get lost or slip into darkness. Because life is too sweet to be bitter and sometimes you need the universe to whisper in your ear, “Hey, there’s lots of beauty and majesty out there, lots of things you adore, so why the sourpuss?” You can write a Love List any time. You can… Read More >
Eight Tips for Finding Your Syncrodestiny
July 13, 2010
By Terri Cole
Who Wants to Harness the Infinite Power of Coincidence? I Do I Do! I recently had a truly transformative experience, spending five days in Taos, New Mexico with Dr. Deepak Chopra and the Chopra Center crew. Our seminar was aptly titled, Syncrodestiny – The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire/Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence. Now who doesn’t want that?? My husband, Vic, and I arrived at El Monte Sagrado Resort and were immediately impressed by the… Read More >
Detour out of Fear
July 7, 2010
By Gabrielle Bernstein
I once heard a live cover of the R. Kelly song, “What a Relief.” The unique iteration resonated with me deeply. The chorus goes: “What a relief to know that we are one What a relief that the war is over What a relief to know that there’s an angel in the sky What a relief to know that love is still alive” I was overwhelmed by this performance. As I listened to the lyrics… Read More >
What is Enough?
July 1, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Jennifer Louden The Rolling Stones were wrong. You can too get some satisfaction – but only if you decide what that means for you. But wait, isn’t being satisfied the same the same as rolling over and giving up? Or playing small? Nope. But it’s easy to confuse complacency with satisfaction. Satisfaction has a very bad rap in the West, especially with people like us, who want to live full out. We’re creative! We’re… Read More >
Health Challenges: Ten Tips for Happiness
June 9, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Maria Mooney Over the past five years, my illness evolution has unfolded exactly the way it was meant to unfold, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the process, admittedly becoming impatient at times. My diagnosis of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS) has been my greatest gift, my teacher, and my master, bringing me closer to my core self, others, and a higher power. I received the message loud and clear in the form of… Read More >
The Grudge: How To Embrace Forgiveness
June 3, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Jess Ainscough “Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.” –Harriet Nelson At some point in our lives, each and every one of us experiences betrayal by friends, lovers, family members or that person on eBay who sells you a fake Louis Vuitton bag after she stated it was authentic. No one and no relationship are exempt from deceit. This little gem of wisdom could turn you into quite the… Read More >
Glad No Matter What
May 28, 2010
By Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
After many years of resisting change and grieving losses in my life, I embarked on a journey of choosing to be – Glad No Matter What. This choice sprang from how dreadful the alternatives seemed, and also from burrowing into my own psychology for many years, and finding out that weaving the dark and the light together creates a rich, fertile “middle ground” to live in. From this middle ground came my gladness. So what… Read More >
30 and Unemployed
April 15, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Sierra Brasher I have spent the last 30 years viewing the world from a standing position and believing that my career was a definition of who I am. This false perception misled me to thinking that it’s okay to allow fear and anxiety to rule my world, as long as it is in the name of “success.” I recently read that pandas upend themselves into handstands to show their peers that they are bamboo-thrashing… Read More >
Five Tips: How to Start Designing Your Life
March 18, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Johanna Sawalha What if you could have your life look the way you want it to…? No, exactly the way you want it to: not just the things you have, but right down to the way that you are. What if we all thought this way? As a new and first time mom, I have had plenty to learn in the past few months as well as plenty for which to give thanks. This… Read More >
25 Lessons
January 29, 2010
By Rory Freedman
Well, here we are at the end of January. Have you stuck with all your New Year’s resolutions? I always appreciate the chance for self improvement, but for some reason, New Year’s resolutions just don’t feel real to me. So this year, I decided to do something different. Instead of making a list of things I wanted to change in the upcoming year, I decided to reflect on some things I learned this past year.… Read More >
Perfect Right Now
January 27, 2010
By Guest Blogger
Two summers ago, I had one of those ‘a-ha’ moments. It was August and this message came to me, “What if, Adrienne, you are perfect as you are, right now, in this very moment. What if we are ALL perfect as we are right now? “Well that idea blew away every single one of my previous beliefs and thoughts. BUT, I bought into it and spent an entire bliss-filled week living this truth. I felt… Read More >
Why Is It So Damn Hard?
August 4, 2009
By Terri Cole
Hello you Gandhi-like group of giving forgivers!! “Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” -Unknown Can we talk about forgiving? Why is it so hard to do? Forgiveness is a misunderstood notion. When I discuss forgiveness with my clients, there is usually a load of resistance and a need to express to me how I must not REALLY understand what happened or I would be recommending they beat… Read More >
