The first step in making meaningful changes in your life involves gaining a better understanding of yourself in essential areas that impact your life. This self-knowledge can provide you with direction as you try to maximize your efforts at change.

No matter what your New Year's resolution is for 2012, we could all use a greater sense of self-awareness. The documentary I AM follows Tom Shadyac, d...

If we are totally honest with ourselves, we will admit that it is often far easier to live with our discomforts and challenges than it is to initiate the mindfulness to become the conscious observer of our beliefs, thoughts and actions that may be supporting them.

Faith in a balanced form could be a positive, and in some ways essential, trait for humanity. However, it could also have the potential for becoming counterproductive if it is used as blind faith or ignorance.

One of the questions I often hear is: Why are people jealous? Why are people jealous of me? My reply: Because they only see the destination and know nothing about the journey.

As we get ready to ring in 2012, here are a few steps we can take to help improve our health and the quality of our lives.

Since flow is so essential to creativity and well-being across many slices of life, it's important that we learn more about the characteristics associated with flow so that we may learn how to tap into this mental resource.

We just have to be willing to not fight the fight and to not pick our battles. We just have to be willing to pick peace instead.

Living existentially suggests that the search for personal meaning is never-ending. We are constantly asking, experiencing and transforming ourselves as we adapt to life's circumstances and as we relate to others.

Living in a society that shuns blatant acts of self-praise, I learned that when we admire people we are often projecting the best and beautiful parts of ourselves onto them.

You can't figure out how to fix bad tings until you know why they happened. This applies to society but also to our personal lives.

Have you ever felt like you look in the mirror too much? I'm raising my own hand very high as I pose that question.