Anxiety: From Surviving to Thriving

How to Transform Anxiety into Inspiration Are you anxious at times? I am. Let’s face it, there’s plenty of anxiety to go around: the downturn in economy, lay-offs, relationship crises, pandemics, violence – and that’s just for starters. Actually, anxiety is a natural alarm system that keeps us safe and productive. But it can become a chronic mindset. When that happens, it can deaden joy and stifle...

How to Relax

It is funny  (or perhaps a sad commentary) that I would even need to write on this topic — how to relax. It seems like it should be something we all know how to do.  After all, aren’t we constantly searching for ways to be less lazy? So then, does it not  logically follow that we already know how to be lazy? It is possible you already have mastered the art of relaxing.  If so, congratulations. You are...

Spotting and Solving Ten Negative Self-Talk Traps

Writing and working (still) in the shadow of the 2006 best-seller,  ” The Secret”, I come across clients who have this information, the idea that positive thinking is the beginning to a better way of life, yet are still struggling. Positive thinking, and the art and practice of it is not only misunderstood, but fairly overrated as well. Simply thinking “positively” without first taking...

Six Practical and Powerful Ways to Overcome Habitual Depression

This is a guest post from John Van Sickel of Walking the Black Dog, a blog about overcoming depression. One of the by-products of our sedentary & isolated contemporary life is the growing epidemic of depression. Over 120 million people worldwide are affected by the black dog of depression, as Sir Winston Churchill described it. Depression is one of the leading causes of disability, missed work, broken...

The “Being-ness” of Happiness

“How do we proceed in our quest for happiness?” Asks biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard. Very often we look outside. Think that if we could gather this and that, all the conditions. It is something that we say, “everything to be happy.”  To have everything, to be happy.  That very sentence already reveals the doom of destruction of happiness. To have everything.  If we miss...