In my last article, I made the case that deep breathing is the ultimate self-control.…
Tag: emotions
Stress disrupts a physical process as fundamental to life as breathing. When human beings get…
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.
Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for…
Even experienced meditators can’t always articulate how meditation works. I used to fall in that…
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Fighting reality only creates suffering. While pain is inevitable in life, suffering is optional. And suffering is what happens when we refuse to accept the pain in our lives.
I define greatness as the joy of self-mastery, which is commonly termed fulfillment. How often…
Most people see helping others as a necessary but undesirable fact of community life. We…
Connection is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It is the lifeblood…
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
Mental toughness is critical to achieving anything in life. It determines how well people respond…
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
It’s only a matter of time before life knocks you down. In fact, some of…
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
This is another one of my all-time favorite quotes because it speaks to the most…
Amor vincit omnia et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all, therefore let us yield ourselves to love.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
I am not a morning person. I get most of my work done at night…
One of the biggest things that separates human beings from animals is the future. As…
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except…
Mesmerize [mez-muh-rahyz]: to fascinate or amaze 1-) The street performer mesmerized audiences with his powerful…
By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the cause of depression described as…
It seems like every month a new challenge makes its waves across the internet. Some…
Happiness is impermanent, like everything else. In order for happiness to be extended and renewed, you have to learn how to feed your happiness. Nothing can survive without food, including happiness; your happiness can die if you don’t know how to nourish it. If you cut a flower but you don’t put it in some water, the flower will wilt in a few hours. Even if happiness is already manifesting, we have to continue to nourish it.
If we can model the ability to embody nonfear and nonattachment, it is more precious than any money or material wealth. Fear spoils our lives and makes us miserable. We cling to objects and people, like a drowning person clings to any object that floats by. By practicing nonattachment and sharing this wisdom with others, we give the gift of nonfear. Everything is impermanent. This moment passes. The object of our craving walks away, but we can know happiness is always possible.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
The human brain is hard-wired for visualization. It constantly imagines how future events will play…
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
There are very few men—and they are the exceptions—who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.
On this blog, I’ve written about celebrities who practiced semen retention and documented a potential…
Forgiveness is powerful medicine, but like all medicine many people have a hard time with…
The Gifts of Imperfection is one of my all-time favorite books. And I know I’m…
The old saying, “You snooze, you lose,” may have a much deeper meaning than any of us realizes. When you delay waking up until you have to–meaning you wait until the last possible moment to get out of bed and start your day–consider that what you’re actually doing is resisting your life. Every time you hit the snooze button, you’re in a state of resistance to your day, to you life, and to waking up and creating the life you say you want… It’s as if you’re saying, I don’t want to live my life, at least not to the fullest.
Elsewhere on the site I have cited scientific evidence demonstrating the health benefits of meditation.…
Imagine a 30-year old man in the US making $13 an hour working a blue…
John Sarno is one of my favorite authors. But he is also one of my…
When I first got a copy of Mark Manson’s bestseller, I was a little put…
In my previous post on fasting, I discuss why I started fasting to heal my…
In ancient times, fasting was commonly prescribed to treat a host of mental and physical…
The 21st century has witnessed a surge in mindfulness meditation in the US and Europe.…
