This is a metaphor that I sometimes share with clients. It comes up when people are trying to make decisions about whether they should move toward something or away from…
"Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all."Buddah After…
"Our medications are anti-depressants, or anti-anxiety, as if the only sensible goal is to subtract them. Our disorders are called “mood disorders” or “thought disorders” or “anxiety disorders”—once again feeding…
“All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real…
I have been paying attention to what makes a meditation feel successful. A few metaphors have come up for me when I think about what this feels like. Exercise I…
We all have addictions. One way I sometimes look at life is a process of eliminating addictions so that we can be at peace. If we were all 100% addiction…
A couple of days ago I was on a familiar running route that I’ve done dozens of times over the past year… through a park, down a dirt road, across…
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Shakespeare Cognitive behavioral therapy is based on the central idea that you can change your life, and feelings…
The other day I was jogging / hiking and listening to an audiobook. Or maybe it was a podcast. I don’t remember, and that is telling. It was just noise…
We tend to get fixated on what we want as a means of obtaining happiness, or peace, or joy, or whatever noun you prefer to indicate that state that we’re…