Feeling low? Go do something for someone else. Not kidding. I’ve written before about the importance of giving and serving. It’s a biggie. Not only does it make others feel good, but it is actually healing for you. Generosity reduces stress, improves immune system response and helps the heart and improves mental health, says Dr. [...]
Sunday 10:10 a.m. My husband is out watching football. I love football. My daughter is drawing pictures and coloring princesses. I love coloring with my daughter. And I am in my home office, alone, with the computer and the space heater amped up. I’ve got some serious work to do today. I’m not in the [...]
On this site my intention is always to entertain, hopefully inspire, and also to teach and remind that we are all connected to the Universal energy. We are the big picture and the little picture. We are marvels and we are marvelous. I think we forget that sometimes. We forget what a privilege this physical [...]
This week, while you finish your last minute shopping and wrapping and cussing over the guy who cut you off in the Target parking lot — keep this in mind: Getting is as important as giving. Yep, you heard it first — in this post, originally published here six months ago. But it’s worth repeating as [...]
I had several errands to run Friday and I was deeply embedded in the I’ve-got-so-much-to-do –get-out-of-my-way frantic kind of holiday mood. I wasn’t upset, just focused and abrupt and herky-jerky. I was moving fast, with my head down, not tuning into anything around me. So, it’s a surprise actually that I noticed the bell ringers [...]
“If you want to change your life’s direction, you need to direct your intention, which means first being honest about the thoughts, rationalizations, intentions and attitudes you already have,” –Donald Altman Author of the Mindfulness Code Our intentions are shaped by our unconscious and conscious minds and influenced by factors in the external world like the [...]
It’s one of the first words I learned on Sesame Street. Cooperation. Then, as I grew I also learned that (not from Sesame Street) that you have only yourself to blame, it’s all up to you, and that you’ve got to look out for Numero Uno – hardly cooperative clichés. Cooperation makes sense though. Not [...]
In the cloud forests of Ecuador live the plain-tailed wren. These chubby little birds are, as it turns out, a model of sophisticated cooperation that can duet better than Donnie and Marie. Bigwigs from John Hopkins University have studied the way these wrens create their birdsongs. Each song requires one female and male bird alternating syllables to create [...]
I’ve mentioned it here before: social connection – as in hanging out with friends — isn’t only essential to our quality of life, but it’s critical to our health. Friendships and support boost our immune function, stave off depression, and ease a bunch of other nasty things that make us feel, well, icky. Still, we’ve [...]
I have become a fan of Facebook. Much to my surprise I like the light and often thought-provoking, cyber banter. I learn new things and think about familiar things differently thanks to the different perspectives that show up there. I’ve reconnected with old friends and even developed some solid, real-life, even-met-in-person friendships on-line. But this [...]
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