Healthy Mind Heart Body

Category: heart

  • We’ve Taken This Relationship A Bit Too Far

    It’s 9:20pm at the office and I’m calling it a day. 10 minutes later I’m wrapping up a conversation with one of my best friends as I park my car in the driveway where I live. A bowl of cereal and milk has found its way to my nightstand. I lose my shirt and belt,…

  • Simple Truths

    Often times, the simple questions in life are the hardest to answer. Ideally, our minds are motivated and excited by the inherent irony and challenge of these basic concepts. However, sometimes we find ourselves running in place, struggling to make progress because we forget to address some of the simple truths that govern our potential…

  • 201 Photographs of Children

    Somewhere over the course of me growing up I learned to stop being annoyed by the little buggers and started deeply appreciating children for the refreshing bundels of joyous ignorance that they are. Perhaps it’s my biological clock that’s got me kickin for kids. Perhaps it was my developing social and emotional maturity that’s helped…

  • My Dhyana Self-Knowledge

    I am grateful to be feeling so much today. I have been particularly inspired by learning about Dhyana, or meditation of yoga. It actually brought me to tears this morning and I’ve been in a slow, positive, steady emotional recovery since. I am presently feeling refreshed with appreciation for my own self-knowledge. “…once it has…

  • Never Let Go

    A good friend sent me an article about letting go. Letting go sounds liberating but dangerous, which is not how I’m accustomed to living. I’m as much in love with my future as I am with today, if not more. I like working, learning, growing, building and progressing. I like the feeling of strength and…

  • The Virtues of Hardship

    Primarily in America there is an overwhelmingly widespread belief that everything should be easy, and that we should always be happy.  While I’m no antagonist of happiness, I do think that obsessing over it is actually counter-productive to achieving it, and also leads people into some otherwise easily dodged traps, foolish decisions, and unreasonable expectations.