The happiness illusion
A year to remember or forget?
Christmas: A message of Hope
Walking through the pain
Have we lost the ability to communicate?
Can you forgive yourself and others?
Forgiving does not mean that you are approving of wrongdoing, of abuse, and all the terrible things that humans do to each other. It is making peace with the past in the knowledge that you are the person today because of all of that which you have experienced
Lessons from the Camino: Winding down
The walk alone
Time spent walking alone is the time when we confront the shadow, and explore the world within.
Finding purpose with deep walking
There is a huge difference between just taking a hike for exercise purposes and going on a deep walking experience.
Nature and the Respect of the Sacred
Walking alone
The ancient masters of all the great religions recommended time alone as a crucial means of discovering true self.
Hate or Love: The language we speak
Choosing the right moment
There is a saying among the ancient Buddhist and Taoist sages that impermanence is a fact of life and most suffering is caused by attachment to that which has gone and is no more.
Walls again?
Building walls is not the answer. The real challenge is to confront the inner walls built with the bricks of fear, the very distorted and colored perspective of the past and underlying prejudice.
Dragon from the underground
Yielding to Nature
Abundance and gratitude
Mastering the Mundane
Climate: No time to lose
Happiness and the power of choice
It appears that by far the major part of our happiness is determined by the way we process the external world and the way we program ourselves with our thought and belief systems. A large body of researchers from the school of positive psychology concludes that it is possible to completely transform a life for the better by changing one’s attitude to whatever you have experienced.
The happiness illusion
The herd-madness of the crowd
A mental health challenge
A year to remember or forget?
Christmas: A message of Hope
The pandemic: A Blessing?
Truth and the tribal bubble
Shifting from the blame game
How do you start your day?
Building resilience during times of crisis
Walking through the pain
Be kind to yourself
Why I despise racism
Born as a white person, I never questioned why blacks did not attend the same good schools that I attended, why blacks were refused entry to restaurants, had a different entrance at the post office, were arrested for breaking a night curfew in white areas or could not sit on the same benches as white people in the parks.
Have we lost the ability to communicate?
Can you forgive yourself and others?
Forgiving does not mean that you are approving of wrongdoing, of abuse, and all the terrible things that humans do to each other. It is making peace with the past in the knowledge that you are the person today because of all of that which you have experienced
The trap of the tribal bubble
Tumultuous change is accompanied by fear and anxiousness. It is fertile ground for the professional deceivers and populist leaders touting easy solutions to complex problems as we are currently seeing in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dealing with fear and anger
Survival strategies in times of duress
You are not alone
The happiness illusion
A year to remember or forget?
Christmas: A message of Hope
Walking through the pain
Have we lost the ability to communicate?
Can you forgive yourself and others?
Forgiving does not mean that you are approving of wrongdoing, of abuse, and all the terrible things that humans do to each other. It is making peace with the past in the knowledge that you are the person today because of all of that which you have experienced
Nature and the Respect of the Sacred
Hate or Love: The language we speak
Choosing the right moment
There is a saying among the ancient Buddhist and Taoist sages that impermanence is a fact of life and most suffering is caused by attachment to that which has gone and is no more.
Walls again?
Building walls is not the answer. The real challenge is to confront the inner walls built with the bricks of fear, the very distorted and colored perspective of the past and underlying prejudice.