Month: February 2019
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Tiny Tip
Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Don’t Believe Everything You Think
So this tip really isn’t tiny at all, because even being aware of what we’re thinking is hard. Thoughts come so constantly, so incessantly, that it can feel as though we are passive in the process, like the thoughts are just coming and we have nothing to do with how they got there. But (one […]
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The Broken-Tooth Diet
No one would recommend the Broken-Tooth diet, because it sucks. But I’m writing about it because, after having dental surgery to extract two broken teeth (WTF?), I’m reminded of how wonderful it is to have a pain-free mouth and to eat whatever you want without (much of) a care. So this is a post about […]
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Poetic Inspiration (that I didn’t write)
“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye Kindness Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness.How you ride and […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Plan a Personal Playdate
When was the last time you treated yourself to a playful outing just for the fun of it? It’s time to plan a personal playdate. My inspiration for this tip (and so many other things) comes from “The Artist’s Way, ” Julia Cameron’s classic book. She suggests readers keep a weekly “artist date” with themselves, […]
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YOU are Amazing: Here’s Proof
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.” _ Lewis Thomas Sounds like a great idea, Lewis, but facing the slog of shit most of us have to deal with every day makes it […]
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Deepak’s (ultra-ambitious) Spiritual Checklist
The fourth and final week of Deepak Chopra’s “Healing the Whole Self” workshop is about spirit, aka the soul, the true self or consciousness. Deepak says spirit is where we connect to the “infinite field of potentiality that gives rise to your mind, your body and the universe.” I can dig that. I’m less confident, […]
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Science of Happiness
Kindness Makes You Cuter: Science of Happiness, Week 3
While it may seem like we’re born to be cutthroat, studies show that humans are actually innately wired for kindness. It is in our very nature to see ourselves in one another and want to help those in distress. Compassion is part of being human. It’s a key element of happiness and health, and it’s […]
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Four (harder than they sound) Steps to Releasing Emotions
Meditation teacher Roger Gabriel has been giving a talk each week on Deepak Chopra’s “Healing the Whole Self” workshop. During week three, Gabriel said that all the organic food and yoga in the world won’t help if our lives are “emotionally turbulent,” and he outlined four steps for letting go of emotions so we don’t […]
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Poetic Inspiration (that I didn’t write)
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination…” Recently deceased and magically transcendent with simple language, Mary Oliver wrote the gift of the poem below in 1986: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred […]
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“You can’t think your way into well-being. You can only act your way into well-being.”
How frustrating, right? Especially to those of us for whom thinking and intellectualizing feels like a serious investment of effort. Dr. D has said these words to me many times (which was probably just as frustrating to her, I now realize). Thinking my way into well-being had been my main strategy. I learned about healthy […]
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