Foreword by Nigel Taylor (Nigetaylor.com) I have been blessed to travel my whole life. I have journeyed far and wide, meeting folks of many cultures and visiting places reaching the extremes of both population density and…
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. – Mother Teresa Most days the words wash over me. I’ve heard them all before. From the time I leave…
He met Mr. Prasada, who previously worked in the independent-film industry, in the monastery … and there were so many difficulties of running a startup from a monastery.” They left the monastery to start Upbuild,…
She says that one of the reasons more people don’t write fiction is what she calls the Tortured Artist Myth. “There is so much bad advice saying, if you want to be a writer you…
Happiness is a choice and an energy you can cultivate on a … joy and permission.Use permissive verbs -I can do this; I choose this. LIVE IN GRATITUDE Gratitude is deceptively simple yet incredibly powerful.…
Do you find yourself restraining your enthusiasm and aspirations? Are you half hearted in your efforts or commitments? Or does a voice at the back of your head constantly caution you to brace yourself against…
When truly living in a state of presence, problems seize to exist and it is possible to live in the divine state of now. Eckhart Tolle says, “All problems are illusions of the mind.” When…
Have you ever noticed how sometimes the smallest of actions seems to drastically change your mood from pitch black to radiant gold? Here is a list of things you can do in order to slowly…
Deep and restful sleep is imperative to good health and the healing process. Our daily Ornish stress management practices have all the components to promote deep and restful sleep. If you hit a bump in…
Every school day, mere seconds after the lunch bell would ring, my peers and I would pile into long tables in the cafeteria and… 4 Ways to Feel More Loved thumbnail courtesy of thinksimplenow.com
There’s a famous teaching, the Sallatha Sutta, in which the Buddha discusses our suffering as consisting of “two arrows.” The first arrow is simply the unavoidable suffering that we all experience as a result of…
Now I live in jeans (or Lycra) and do a lot of running, swimming, cycling, yoga and Pilates. In January I qualified as a personal trainer, which I do part-time. Last year, I ran a…
