As a teacher and a healer, what I have learned is that not everyone who says they want to heal and be happy really means it. In order to achieve wholeness and personal happiness, people have to be willing to let go of their loyalty to stories of "not good enough" and "didn't do it right."

It is from personal experience that I endorse and prescribe what Vedantic psychology has known for thousands of years. Change the name and you change the person.

Mindfulness at its best rests in the present moment without an agenda. It is pure awareness minus the tyranny of the intellect.

Awareness, what are we giving our attention to, is the most life-altering form of energy available to us. It is our awareness that has the greatest influence on the body, our perceptions and emotions.

Oscar Wilde's wisdom, insight and penchant for truth are as accurate and sobering now as they were over 10 decades ago.

We invite, accumulate and aggravate our miseries according to what we give our attention to. Conversely we also heal, overcome and breakthrough life's challenges according to our awareness.

How is it that all the great spiritual sayings can fit on a bumper sticker? The reason is that Universal truth is simple and straightforward.

The Eastern philosophy makes perfect sense for anyone who has ever noticed that no matter what you may do or ingest in your physical body, what works for one person may not work equally for another.

The meek will inherit the Earth, but the happy, well-balanced people who value respecting fair and healthy boundaries will inherit a life worth living while on the Earth!

After a lifetime of studying various philosophical traditions, I still have not found a better embodiment of transcendent wisdom than Bugs.

Why don't we focus the lens of our perspective on the same mastery of resiliency that cartoon characters seem to have, and by which they seem to mock our very existence?