How to Cultivate a Spacious Mind 25 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm

If you’ve ever wished for a moment of peace, you were longing for a more spacious mind. An overactive mind seems to be the norm in our over-the-top busy lives.  Your mind may be cluttered with distra...

Is It Really Possible to Reduce Stress? 20 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm

“Is it really possible to reduce stress in our crazy new millennium lives?” That’s one of the important questions that Charlotte Rains Dixon asked in her interview with me today on living with joy.  ...

Sad? Amplify Joy! 18 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm

Life is a study in contrasts: Birth and Death Loving and Letting Go Day and Night Light and Dark Joy and Sorrow Do you ever get stuck in sorrow?  Then keep it going by generating sad-stained tho...

An Inspirational Moment: Love 16 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm

These are the phrases I use in Loving Kindness practice. You can say them silently for yourself, repeating them again and again: “May I Be Well. May I Be Happy. May I Be Safe.” And, you can silently ...

What Hooks You? (And How to Overcome It.) 14 Aug 2013 | 03:03 pm

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”  – Marcus Aurelius I’ve been li...

Why Learning to Live with Ease Is a Necessity Not a Luxury 11 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm

Do you feel stuck on a quickly moving treadmill of stress that is incrementally increasing in speed? If so, you are not alone.  An amazing 77% of people in the U. S., for example, regularly experienc...

An Inspirational Moment 9 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm

Reconnecting to the Web of Life 7 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm

I rarely listen to music, but one piece I love is I Giorni by the Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi.  The story and song behind the composition makes it all the more hauntingly beautiful. “One evening...

Go Beyond Empathy, Cultivating Genuine Compassion (Part 3) 4 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm

Almost all of us feel a sense of empathy when we see someone in the throes of suffering.  This natural sense of empathy is the basis for genuine compassion.  But, genuine compassion is more than a tra...

A Rally Against Impermanence 31 Jul 2013 | 06:35 pm

“One of the chief reasons we have so much anguish and difficulty in facing death is that we ignore the truth of impermanence. In our minds, changes always equal loss and suffering. And if they come, ...