Many years ago I worked at a clinic owned by a woman named Alicia. She was there for everyone and had a heart of gold, though for no visible reason, she was always in some kind of crisis. It was as if a cloud of chaos and unhappiness surrounded her at all times. If it…
I often joke about having an expiration date tattooed on my backside. It is in a place where I can’t actually see the date, but believing it is there helps me keep my mind clear and helps me approach each and every moment with the awareness that it might be my last. This does not…
We do not have to strive for wholeness—wholeness exists within us. Sometimes it may be clouded by false beliefs about life or ourselves, but it is always there. When we are moving from, and experiencing life from, our conscious mind we are able to both feel our wholeness and move through life from our wholeness.…
Have you ever felt happiness erupt in a corner of your mouth and then consume your whole face like a wave devouring the sand beneath it? It happened to me this morning, but it didn’t stop at my neck. Instead it ducked inside my skin just below my collarbone, seeking out every dark and tight…
Recently a friend and I were talking about how changing a single word and sometimes even changing a single letter could have a profound impact on the mind and ultimately create an empowering or disempowering situation. One of the words we were talking about at the time was the word “should.” Consider this: If someone…
When I studied art in college I had a wonderful teacher for life drawing who changed the way I drew and changed my life. At the beginning of each class he had us draw on very large tablets of paper because he felt it was a great way to encourage us to bring our whole…
I had known for a long time that I felt better whenever I was drawing, painting, or sculpting, but I didn’t really understand why until I met Dr. Bruce Lipton in 1989. It was at that first meeting where he explained to me that our mind actually consists of two minds—the subconscious and the conscious…
We weren’t designed to be merely linear beings. We are a blend of body, mind, and spirit and were born to be connected to all living things. Unfortunately, our lives today don’t always support this union. Consequently many people spend much of their lives disconnected from their spirits and walk through life as distant and…
Children see—even if they don’t have the capacity to articulate what they see—they see and their mind records what they see. This can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the situation and how you respond. Many, many years ago when my son was about three-and-a-half, I went on an errand that…
A Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania study found that coloring, drawing, and doodling make us feel more relaxed because they activate the prefrontal cortex, which helps control the brain’s reward pathways and contributes to our emotions, decision-making capabilities, and motivation. In this study, the participants were given paper and markers and instructed to doodle in several…