Who are you? Really you? What is your identity?

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ― William James A fundamental question for you? Who are you? If you answered with you name and current job role, then that is not the whole you. You are much more than that. You are the accumulation […]

What you see and hear isn’t always what it seems

Our prisons are other people’s eyes; our cages are their thoughts. – Ruby Wax, from her autobiography, How do you want me? The world revolves around the events and the interactions that we all participate in. We create our own world inside of us; recreating and reinforcing our thoughts and perceptions, moment by moment, every […]

The Mindfulness tool, the Breath

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough to be breathing” ― Hettie Jones One of the primary mindfulness tools that is available to each and every one of us and that we have free unfettered access to, is our breath. Until I came to mindfulness, I did not really think about the breath. Well, unless […]

The essence of the Breath

“Listen–are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” ― Mary Oliver The core of Mindfulness meditation practice is the use of the breath, as one of the tools to bring yourself into the present moment. After all, we carry it with ourselves throughout our lives. It is always there and we, […]

One of life’s pleasures is on the decline, Reading

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons One of my life’s pleasures, perhaps an addiction, has been reading. I can remember reading from a very early age. In fact, I used to use a […]

What on earth is Neuroplasticity?

“Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.” ― Scott Adams Something I have come to realize through my own practice and reading on Mindfulness is that our brains are not fixed and unchanging. Society has taught us that by the time you […]

The four constituents of Well-Being you can change

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Achieving well-being has been the concern of philosophers since Aristotle, and is, […]

We can change our negative wiring!

Oddball: “Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves Moriarty? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” ― From the Film “Kelly’s Heros” So what are we going to do about being hard wired with a negative […]

Are we hard-wired to be negative?

“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who […]