Posted in Questions on Oct 31st, 2010 No Comments »
United States Marines get Mindful The U.S. Marine Corps is experimenting with mindfulness training for combat troops. Imagine a line of combat soldiers in the lotus position. The Department of Defense and others are studying the effects of mindfulness on a soldier’s working memory capacity – a cognitive resource that powers complex thoughts. Stress can [...]
Posted in Questions on Oct 14th, 2010 2 Comments »
The Question of God Makes Me Hungry Last night I saw Julia Sweeney’s Letting Go of God. What a wonderful film. Julia Sweeney amazed me with her wit, dialogue and personal inquiry into God. I noticed as the film progressed and Julia got deeper and deeper into exploring her belief in God, religion and personal [...]
Posted in Questions on Aug 11th, 2010 No Comments »
What’s up with Life & Death – Living & Dying? My first real experience with death was when a dear friend of mine died from ovarian cancer about 10 years ago. As I grieved, I learned a very interesting thing – my grief spoke to depth of the love. It was fascinating to discover that [...]
Posted in Questions on Oct 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
Ladies, I Need Your Advice I had to pee – and once again faced the question I always face when an establishment has but one restroom for both sexes – Do I leave the seat up or not? Now this may not be a dilemma to many, but to me it continues to be an [...]
Posted in Questions on Jul 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Change & Transformation Happen in the Gap One session of a 10-day training I once attended was focused on the “gap.” The teacher of this session, Alia, informed us that all change and transformation occur in the gap and not as a result of reading, studying, meditating, chanting or anything else. The gap is an [...]
Posted in Questions on Jun 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Self-Torture is a Big Love Affair A friend of mine recently commented that her ego hated a recent video someone had taken of her. An hour later, in a book I am reading the author addressed self-abuse – “We would never let people treat others the way we treat ourselves.” The author went on to [...]
Posted in Questions on Apr 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Help is Everywhere and IT Wants YOU! Last week, I picked up a copy of Open Exchange – The Bay Area’s Premier Healthy Living Magazine. It’s been a while since I looked through this publication and I have never hooked up with a professional or service provider through the ads or articles. Flipping through Open [...]
Posted in Questions on Apr 10th, 2009 No Comments »
What’s the Difference Between Want & Need? A friend of mine asked me this question last night. My first response was that need seems to be more associated with survival and identity than want. Want can have a sense of expansion, but I don’t notice that with need. Of course, we are talking mostly about [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Critical Bitching from Pocket Parents Years ago, when visiting friends in Boston, I wandered into a toy store and found a set of “pocket parents.” Each pocket parent was about the size of a pack of cigarettes and came with five buttons, but no battery. With the battery installed, I could push a button on [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 9th, 2009 3 Comments »
Survival Instinct Explored in Berkeley, CA This past weekend, I attended A.H. Almaas’ winter retreat in Berkeley. The retreat focused on the survival instinct and most agreed it was a timely presentation. Two years ago we worked on the social instinct and last year we explored the sexual instinct. Almass explores the instinctual drives in [...]
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