Healthy Mind Heart Body

Category: emotion

  • How To Beat Embarrassment

    Embarrassment is a mental game existing because of our interpretations of societal standards. It is totally self-contrived, self-maintained, self-perpetuated. Nobody enjoys being embarrassed. So get over it. I spent an afternoon in a workshop in India with close friends and sudo-strangers. We stared at each other, then moved to our right and stared at the…

  • My Childhood Heroes

    My childhood heroes are a pretty impressive bunch, I must say! I’d be proud to be compared to any one of them. As a child, I was less inhibited by the internal and external motivations of an adult. Life was simpler, less complex, less confusing, closer to being true to myself. My young, innocent self…

  • Invisible Children

    There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come; whose time is now. Right now, there are more people on Facebook than there were on the planet 200 years ago. Humanity’s greatest desire is to belong and to connect. And now, we see each other. We hear each other. We share what…

  • Cloud Tripping

    I revel in an afternoon of cloud tripping, lucid dreaming and fantastic scheming… chasing frivolity and entertaining dalliance. Consider, we’ve got clouds in our heads and dreams in our skies. Strike that– reverse it! Taking time to indulge in my heart and mind’s playful dance, fight, or tease is not an often afforded luxury; a…

  • An Old Man Finds Gratitude on a Thursday Morning

    I’ve woken to reflect on 1,000 wakeful worries that pulled me fully once from bed to write and share my struggles. This morning, I’m unable to conjure a single one. It’s 5am and all is well in the world and I have only feelings of gratitude. I’ve said dozens of times over the last few…

  • Top 5 Reasons Why You Love The Job You Hate

    It’s Monday Morning, 5am in Dallas, and nothing is the same, except for everything at my job, where nothing has changed. The weekend before last, I spent two short sleepless days buried in Hale College. This past weekend, I took four days and emerged from my cave to spend time with a friend. Familiar job-griping…