Guidelines

The key to opening the human heart is acceptance. That recently hit me like an epiphany. If you’ll just take a minute and imagine how it affects you when you feel truly accepted by another, I suspect you will sense a softening, an easing, a relaxing of your heart. I suspect you will realize how […]

The question of how to treat others has received the same singular answer in most every religion and ethical tradition since the sixth century BCE. For example, in ancient Hinduism we are told, “One should never do something to others that one would regard as an injury to one’s own self. In brief, this is […]

Love is a circle with three phases. These phases blend into one another seamlessly, around and around again, potentially lifelong, and maybe even beyond. The phases are as the sweeps of a second hand, beginning at 12: first downward, then across, finally upward toward closure – and repetition. For love’s satisfaction, love’s perpetuation, all three […]

You are what you share. Sharing affirms and ushers you into the present, something we need to enter constantly. It is easy to get lost in yesterday’s memories or tomorrow hopes. Yet all that is, is right here and now. But you must risk sharing yourself with others to make accessible the nourishing treasure-trove of […]

Memories of what has been are as important to our health as hopes of what will be. Our memories establish our sense of personal identity. Lose your memory, and you lose your sense of self. This is what happens with amnesiacs: in losing their memory, they forfeit their grasp of who they are, where they […]

There are things you can do to gain control over worry. I recently heard a psychiatrist detailing what we can do to work through the anxiety and worry so prevalent these last few months. He offered a threefold strategy. He said, 1) Never worry alone, 2) Get the facts, and 3) Make a plan. Never […]