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Everybody worries about something. We worry about the children, the house, the job, the spouse, our health, the holidays, our parents, friends, the car, what the neighbours will say, what comments we get on social media, or we just worry about worry. Without knowing, we are subconsciously swimming in worry! But it’s normal to worry, right? […]
There is one activity we each do every day, all day long, in every area of our lives—at home, at work, with friends, even when we’re alone. The success of our relationships, our work, and life in general rests heavily on it, yet few of us ever receive explicit training in this area. I’m talking […]
It is my longing that makes me love you intensely, For I yearn to be loved from the heart. It is my eternity that makes me love you long, For I have no end. – Mechtild of Magdeburg, German mystic of the Beguines, 1282 This Is How We Create Love Love is mystical […]
When we talk about love, it is inevitable the subject of codependency and interdependency arise. This relatively new term, codependency, was coined a few decades ago. Since this topic is vast and I am not a professional psychologist, I will share only what seems pertinent for the sake of awareness. The learned compulsive behavior called […]
The day is different from the start. You wake up with an unspoken urge to do differently. You drive with a compulsion to go a different way, park in a different neighborhood or on a different street. You leave at a different time or change your routine because the old one is now, well, old. […]
We are initiated. We are apprenticed by pain. Our beauty, our purpose and our expansion is forged in the fire of our difficulties. Like a blacksmith, our suffering relieves us of our rough and tattered edges, painfully at first, until we are fully broken open. That is when our soul pours forth like water through […]
This month, to commemorate Valentine’s Day, Swami answers all your questions about love and sexuality — and you will question his answers. Dear Swami: I have been happily married for 27 years, and I have always had a meal for my husband when he comes home from work — until recently. About two months ago, […]
Many studies show that, as you might expect and may fear, children of divorced parents can develop into adults with lower self-esteem and more depression and anxiety compared to children who were raised by both parents. However, what studies also show, and what I emphasize with my clients, is that children are not typically damaged […]
To go back to the Reality of Life in the midst of this Reality Is Our Practice Shohaku Okumura These days we are confronted with so many dreams, possibilities, questions, illusions and points of view. We often dismiss or condemn those who do not agree with us. Relationships are severed and well being threatened. Friends […]
Along with the widespread growth in free enterprise in the latter half of the twentieth century, came the dawning realization that the primary key to abundance is to think first of what you can give to, rather than what you can get from, your work activity. People who have now adapted to the consciousness of […]
