Happiness – everyone wants it, but what is it? How do you get it? Excitement is easy. Anyone can name things that would excite him or her – a new car, that sharp outfit, winning the lottery, all kinds of stuff. Our imaginations literally swarm with images of things that we believe will make us […]
Here we are the day before Halloween – a time when all the scary ghosts and goblins are set free. More traditionally any departed souls still wandering the earth have one last chance to visit the living before being carried to the other side on All Saints Day, November 1st. In any event the whole […]
Food meets a lot of needs. Our thinking brain tells us that we need food for nutrition – to give us energy and the building blocks to build and repair tissues. While this is completely true, it has very little to do with why most people eat food. If it did we would only eat […]
Normally I only do one philosophy article each month, but early this morning I awoke to thoughts about Valentine’s Day and the beliefs and perspectives we have about the whole love game. It was too early to get up so I decided to access higher wisdom and ask some questions about this arena of life. […]
What do you want from life? We all have certain basic survival needs – air, water, food, shelter, and safety. Most of us have these basics met. If you don’t then the focus of your life will pretty much be on securing these needs or else you won’t survive. But aside from these needs most […]
Remember those little cartoon angles and devils that would sit on people’s shoulders whispering into their ears? The devil would sit on one side and urge the person to do all sorts of things that were “bad” and likely to get them into trouble. While the angel would sit on the other shoulder and warn […]
Do you say yes to life, or is your life one of limitations, inhibitions, and restrictions? This is not the simple question it appears to be. It is a question about the functional neurology between your ears. These last couple months have been a personal education in neurology for me as I work with […]
This may seem like a challenging question because it is one of those feelings that we use a lot of energy to avoid encountering. Yet it is usually hovering around in the background of our life. It covertly runs a lot of the decisions we make in our life because of the desire to avoid […]
This may seem like a challenging question because it is one of those feelings that we use a lot of energy to avoid encountering. Yet it is usually hovering around in the background of our life. It covertly runs a lot of the decisions we make in our life because of the desire to […]
Most likely as you read this, I am somewhere in Japan adhering to a rigorous tour schedule set up by my son to make sure I see everything he wants me to see (and to try the list of 35 foods he wants me to be sure to taste.) I may need to express a […]