I have a very hard time being criticized, corrected, or accused - even of the smallest mistakes - and I react very angrily. I've wrestled this instinc...
Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living
If only there were a way to immediately link the immediate pleasure of downing that pint of Cherry Garcia with the distant pain of feeling like a lard ass.
Jason Mannino | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living
When we think "self-centered," unpleasant images often come to mind; but it becomes important in the context of self-actualization to distinguish SELF...
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living
Specific practices that have traditionally been associated with spiritual contexts may also be very useful from a mainstream, secular, health point of view. Scientists are researching meditation.
Michael Sigman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living
The agitated mind, if allowed to fully run its course without suppression of any thought or emotion, may simply exhaust itself and give up, revealing an underlying, more equanimous state.
Kay Goldstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living
In a recent meditation class, a parent brought up how he was undergoing a great deal of external stress, finding it hard to support the busy and challenging level of activities of his teenager.
Michael Sigman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
It's foolish (and counter-productive) to constantly pursue pleasure as an end in itself. Happiness, they say, is a by-product of satisfying work.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living
I am honored to interview today Michael I. Posner, a prominent scientist in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
Kay Goldstein | Posted 09.17.2008 | Living
For those of us attempting to live in the world in a more conscious way, there can never be enough reminders, for we humans are such forgetful creatures.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.16.2008 | Living
By re-framing marginal, disfavored parts of my trip -- like the Newark airport -- so that they were no longer inconveniences, but actually part of the action, I prevented myself from getting aggravated.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
Can you write a haiku describing anything crossing your mind now?
Joan Borysenko | Posted 07.06.2008 | Living
We are a stunningly impatient culture...a fact that has been reflected in a lot of poor choices that have compromised the environment, the economy, th...
Kay Goldstein | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Science is finding ways to verify what the ancients already knew: practices that expand awareness and consciousness can be of benefit to all aspects of the human condition.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Have you ever found yourself standing in front of the fridge, looking for something to eat? before you eat ask yourself, "Am I hungry?" If not, see if you can do something else.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living
I heard on the radio last week that the genocide in Darfur has been going on for five years, 200,000 people have died and 2 million people have been d...
Kay Goldstein | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
A friend recently sent me the following email: "I had a 'set back' yesterday and was struggling with 'too many thoughts' and feeling frustrated. I di...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
I heard the words, "In the Name of the Father" many times in my Lutheran upbringing in Indiana. While not of any religious orientation, I have had ex...
Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Have you ever had a situation where you wanted to love someone freely but you couldn't? For whatever reason you felt constricted or tight? Your hear...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Until I was curious enough to study my habitual patterns and behaviors of avoidance, I could not let go of them.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
I just returned from Burlington Vermont where I spent a few days with my son (a student at the University of Vermont) and gave a talk in the Medical S...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
In the aftermath of the shooting last week on another college campus, I am reminded of a common response to such horrors: to pray and seek solace from...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
We don't need to understand Einstein's theory of relativity to see that time is an elusive construct. Nowhere is this changing perception of time more...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
When kindness is a guiding principal, hurting another - whether human, animal, or the earth, will not be easy.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
I've already told you that I'm not spiritual, which I think is important, particularly because it manages your expectations. I couldn't very well star...
Perry Garfinkel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
"Don't just do something; sit there. With all this socially engaged work, with interpersonal relationships, with inter-being, first you must learn what the Buddha learned, to still the mind. They you don't take action; action takes you."
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living