“Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy and happiness to ourselves and others.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh January is the “morning” of 2016 and is wide open with opportunities […]
Setting Intentions Instead of Affirmations for the New Year
The practice of setting resolutions or affirmations for the New Year is an annual exercise for many. We list everything that we think needs to be changed, set affirmations that “should” change our minds, and absolutely believe, for example, that come January 1, kale smoothies really will taste better after a one hour workout. Unfortunately, […]
How Board Breaking Empowers and Transforms
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. — John F. Kennedy Fear and anger are debilitating and pervasive emotions. They can disrupt our lives and dreams, cause us to feel stagnant, and sometimes, even hopeless. Imagine them as suitcases, […]
The Power of Positive Self-Talk
All of us have experienced the inner critic; the voice that whispers all the reasons that we can’t do something, be something. This voice has a memory like an elephant and when triggered, is delighted to run through a litany of all the times we have felt like a failure or insecure or afraid. The inner critic […]
Positive Living – What You Focus On Expands
The mind is everything. What you think you become. ~Buddha The idea of “what you focus on expands” taps into the concept of the universal law of attraction – “like attracts like”. This is an absolute for those who are practicing positive living. The ideas, energies, practices that we focus our time, energy, and brain […]
