Ellen and I have been focusing on the subject of self-love for the last week or so. Once we get interested in a subject, we seem to attract many different perspectives from those around us on the subject of interest without asking. Sometimes it is like the world is just a big textbook, and when […]
Several times lately the resolution to a particular stress pattern within myself, and various others, has been to relax into a state of trust and belief that there is a larger plan at work. These stresses like to come up when we are confronted with things that are simply out of our control. That might […]
Pain is something we are all familiar with. When something happens to our body that is immediately not good for it, we get these signals from the injured area called pain. Pain is there to warn us that we need to do something right now to prevent further injury. Furthermore, that particular pain will […]
Last week I promised to reveal to you the single biggest thinking/feeling mistake that is responsible for most of the suffering in our lives. The last six newsletters have been about nutritional and physical causes behind mental health issues like depression and anxiety. The big message I wanted to get across is that very […]
My sweetheart, Ellen, has been in the hospital after suffering a seemingly small fall in the bedroom. Since then, she has been unable to put any weight on her leg, rendering her unable to even transfer into her wheelchair. X-rays and CT scans have shown nothing to cause all this weakness and pain. The emergency […]
The topic around the house this last week or so has been on suffering. This has been a favorite topic intermittently over the last 25 years or so, but this time it was different. This time, on her own, Ellen made the profound realization that all the suffering in her life has come from her […]
Last weekend Ellen and I went to an 80th birthday party for an old friend. The party was thrown by the Sai Baba society of Sacramento, which she has been very active in for a long time. The event was a beautiful collision of different faiths as the event was held in the Zoroastrian Temple and […]
Ellen and I have been spending the last week focusing on the question “Just what is the core cause of human stress and suffering?” Periodically life lessons converge in such a way that routine situational and personal skill development answers don’t reach the core of the driving issues underneath the lessons. This last week was […]
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 […]