When was the last time you thought about your own death? 5 seconds ago? 5 years ago? What DO you think will happen when you die? How does that inform how you are living your life? Death is the most fascinating topic that we tend not to think or talk about very much. In the […]
Did you know that your brain gives preference to visual information? Researchers L.D. Rosenblum, Harold Stolovitch, and Erica Keeps refer to our senses as learning portals. They offer the following statistics regarding the percentage of data processed by each of our five senses: Sight (both through our eyes and unconscious visual perception) accounts for an […]
Families can be complicated, to say the least. When they are beautifully loving and caring, it’s one of God’s most delightful gifts. But often, when the well-being of a critically-ill loved one is involved, tensions can flare. We don’t all love in the same way. And, love is often tainted by self-serving motivations or competition […]
If any of the following sound familiar, you will be delighted to know you can eliminate them all! Feeling like an outsider Never feeling like you are good enough Being aware of an inner emotional heaviness or depression Experiencing a repetitive pattern of disappointment The emotional heat of perpetual anger The inability to deeply connect […]
My friend Roy was a great teacher for me. He was a retired farmer who had dropped out of school at an early age. But, he had more wisdom than most of the world’s great scholars. I remember when I used to complain to him about other people who did things I didn’t like. When […]
This is a picture of me with my mother, Grace Mundy, six months before her death in 2006. We shared a home during the final nine years of her life. Being her friend and caregiver through to her death was a walk through the valley of the shadow of death. But, it also taught me […]
While I am not a Buddhist, I find great wisdom and potential liberation in the Tibetan Buddhist teachings on death. They offer a beautiful understanding of life’s end to those in the west who are still under the influence of a societal death taboo. Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, […]
Every second, we are bombarded with information. What Do We Perceive? In his book, Strangers to Ourselves, Timothy Wilson quantifies the processing capabilities of the human brain. While the conscious mind processes 40 bits of information per second, the unconscious mind processes 11 million! The fact that most of our data processing is unconscious is […]
Fear is a Fantasy Expectation Appearing Real. Fear can get triggered in many ways. Some people are afraid of dogs or snakes or spiders, for example. Others fear experiencing such emotional states as humiliation, rejection, shame, loneliness, and failure. Still others fear such life occurrences as poverty, serious illness, or death. Whether your fear is […]
Have you ever noticed that you and your partner keep having essentially the same fight over and over again? No matter what the topic, whenever you get into an argument, does it always seems to turn out the same way? That’s usually because you are shadowboxing with the wrong person. Let me introduce you to […]