Holistic Living
My Answer to Peace, Love, and Joy I spent my first 30 years accumulating -- stuff, jobs, men, money, debt, fat, resentments, blame, victimitis -- the usual suspects. It took only one year to lose the external mass: the husband, the business, all the money, and then the last of the stuff. It took another year to lose the fat. Hooray. Ten years later I managed to lose the blame, resentment and victimhood. It felt pretty good, but nothing prepared me for what happened next: … [Read more...]
An excerpt from The Bliss Experiment: 28 Days to Personal Transformation "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford Affirmations are positive statements of truth that we aspire to absorb into our lives. They share similarities with practices like awareness, optimism and gratitude, but also at least one essential difference: they penetrate much more deeply, helping us take the next step to bliss. There are several strategies and … [Read more...]
Read the lengthy excerpt from The Bliss Experiment: Planting the Seeds of Bliss What if you don't really want to be happy? Most of us spend a good deal of our time pursuing happiness -- or at least pleasure. This strikes many of us as a perfectly obvious and natural thing to do. From the Declaration of Independence, which announces that it's our "inalienable right" to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" to almost every nook and cranny of pop culture to virtually all … [Read more...]
Often yoga is associated with discipline, hard work, denial and even rigorous practice. Sure, we talk a lot in Yoga about discipline, and yes, we need that, but really, Yoga is the "Art of Joyful Living" (Swami Rama). We confuse joy with happiness, not knowing what either is except that it's something that makes me feel good, invoking in me the feeling of being happy. Scientific research names three sources that give us "happiness": Pleasure (positive sensory experience, for example … [Read more...]
I am: a psychologist with more than 30 years of clinical experience; a qigong teacher with nearly 15 years of study, practice and teaching; and a man who is nearly 60 and has spent most of his life searching for happiness. And I really didn't understand that a central element to that happiness was sitting in front of me all the time. As a psychotherapist, I was looking for the right theoretical school, the right technique, the right approach to help my clients not only heal, but also find … [Read more...]
Several years ago, I entered a three-week retreat, during which time I disconnected from everyone and everything. Something hugely powerful and irresistible was pulling me away from the outside world, towards an unknown inner journey of reflection, release and renewal. It was as if I had an appointment for which I was not ready. An alchemical process was going to catalyze something within me, my intuition told me, which was going to get me ready by dissolving what might be in the way, by … [Read more...]
"The power to fulfill our dreams is within each of us. We alone have the responsibility to shape our lives. When we understand this, we know that nothing, and no one, can deny us greatness. We are the ones pushing ourselves forward or holding ourselves back. The power to succeed or fail is ours alone." -- Unknown Living a balanced life is something we all strive to achieve. We want great things for ourselves and our loved ones and we want some degree of control over our lives. We want … [Read more...]
Economics of Happiness: Going local can help solve our global crises The launch of The Economics of Happiness, a one-hour documentary about the worldwide movement for economic localization, recently debuted in America and Europe. Festival screenings and television broadcast are planned soon. Going beyond merely identifying the myriad problems of corporate globalization, The Economics of Happiness explores the rapidly growing localization movement, which offers a strategic solution to our … [Read more...]
What kills happiness? Sometimes it's a big thing; but it's usually a series of little things that pile up over time. For instance, saying yes too much when you should really be saying no. Have you ever heard the old saying, "If you want something done, ask a busy person?" It makes sense. It's obvious they are able to get things done. But there is a fine line between taking on a lot and taking on too much. People in corporate situations often fall into this over-commitment trap. It's easy to … [Read more...]
In pursuit of human well-being, much has been done on this planet. In the last hundred years with the use of science and technology, we have done so much to create human well-being. As a result, definitely much comfort and convenience have come our way. But at the same time we cannot claim we are the most joyful generation on the planet. We cannot claim we are the most peaceful generation on the planet nor can we claim we are the most loving generation on the planet. Never before could another … [Read more...]
Our society operates from the head, carefully thinking, weighing the pros and cons and making decisions that make sense based on the current situation. We may have a choice on Sunday night to prepare for a Monday morning presentation or to watch a movie. Our heart may beg us for the relaxing, enjoyable entertainment, but our mind tells us to run through that presentation one more time.... Seems like a fairly logical choice, even though you spent the past two weeks working on the presentation … [Read more...]
An excerpt from The Body Knows...How to Stay Young: Healthy Aging Secrets from a Medical Intuitive If you're sick, chances are you're addicted to certain foods, behaviors and thoughts. Anything that has power over you and that you have difficulty letting go of is an addiction. For example, dwelling on the past can be just as damaging as being hooked on coffee, alcohol or chocolate, because it holds you back in life. In fact, noted physician and author Deepak Chopra claims that all illness … [Read more...]
TWIN CITIES - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a rising star among the new generation of Tibetan Buddhist teachers, will visit the Twin Cities in mid-April to share his extensive meditation expertise and interest in Western neuroscience, quantum physics and psychology. He is the author of the 2007 New York Times bestseller The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness. "Mingyur Rinpoche's visit to the Twin Cities is significant," said Cortland Dahl, executive director of the … [Read more...]
What is it that we look for the most in life? On what do we place a higher value than love, money, health, sex, work and success? Above all else comes happiness. It is our No. 1 priority, although these many elements are clearly integrated in it. Happiness is the big umbrella that saves us from the rain. So what is happiness? More important, how do you find it? Even more important, how do you hang onto it? It's an age-old quest, as they say, and one that unconsciously drives most of us. The … [Read more...]
A shift is occurring within the hearts of humanity. We are finding a new passion within and recognizing that who we are counts. "I Am valuable, important and significant. I matter and I have a contribution to make!" This passion is igniting within each of us. This shift is taking place across the world in every town and village and in the hearts of each child, woman and man. A connection is being made one heart to another. In this connection of caring, sharing, giving and receiving, a … [Read more...]
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