Day by day, we live our lives and take our breaths. We struggle, and we triumph. Each new day arrives full of hope— hope that, by dusk, may have faded. But still, we continue. We must continue. For life is the ultimate pendulum. The ultimate balance. The brighter the light that shines upon us, the…
Category: Self Improvement
When it’s hard to breathe
When it’s hard to breathe everything becomes a challenge When it’s hard to breathe small tasks feel like insurmountable mountains. When it’s hard to breathe isolation seems more prevalent. When it’s hard to breathe loneliness is most profound. When it’s hard to breathe options seem few and challenging. When it’s hard to breathe love of…
How Extroverted Introverts Interact Differently With The World
Your whole life you’ve been confusing people – including yourself. Social interactions can either recharge or drain your social batteries. Parties can make you feel alive, switched on, and your most confident – or completely bored, annoyed and withdrawn. You’re resilient and sensitive at the same time. Very social but rarely out. You enjoy being…
The Misperception of Me
According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real “me” than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I…
A Zen Master Explains the Art of ‘Letting Go’
Written By Christina Sarich Thich Naht Hanh, the Zen Buddhist master, has some interesting advice about what it means to truly let go. Many people mistake detachment or non-clinging to be a form of aloofness, or emotional disconnect from others, but as Hanh explains, truly letting go often means loving someone more than you have…
A Key To Happiness May Be ‘Feeling Your Feelings,’ Even The Negative Ones
Dealing with our feelings, especially the negative ones, is one of the hardest parts of life, no matter how young or old you are. We do a lot of different things to get ourselves off the hook: We repress, sublimate, and medicate our way out of fully experiencing and processing the things we don’t want…
Know Thyself – How To Be Happy Without Changing Anything But Yourself
If you give the below video an hour and a half of your time, you won’t be disappointed with the Inner wisdom it gives you. Do we create our own reality? As human beings we all co-create the aggregate of our experiences, your outer world is largely a reflection of your inner world. You are the co-creator…
8 Great Life Teachings From Yoda
8 GREAT LIFE TEACHINGS FROM YODA FOLLOW THESE LESSONS, YOU SHOULD. Need a life coach? Master Yoda, the ultimate wise and wizened elder of indeterminate origin and unmistakable syntax, is here to help. 1. Be mindful. “A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched….
The Wisdom of a Silent Mind
Silent Mind When your sense perception contacts sense objects and you experience physical pleasure, enjoy that feeling as much as you can. But if the experience of your sense perception’s contact with the sense world ties you, if the more you look at the sense world the more difficult it becomes, instead of getting anxious—“I can’t control this”—it’s better…
These 7 Buddhist monk habits are hard to adopt but they’ll change your life forever
What’s the secret to feeling calm and focused? It’s not an easy question to answer. So, why do Buddhist monks appear peaceful and present all the time? How do they do it? Do they know some hidden secret that you don’t? Actually, yes they do! For thousands of years, Buddhist philosophy has focused solely on…
20 Powerful Secrets to Meaningful Relationships
Here are twenty powerful secrets that will help you form meaningful relationships with people: When two people meet, the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He will be calmer, more confident, more at ease with the other. Never permit the behavior of other people to tell you how you feel. Pay…
Reflections on Calm Abiding in Meditation
My mind has long been lost in search of happiness Without knowing how transient all things are. Seeing the unsatisfactoriness of real life experiences I will not let my mind wander outside. Turning back the forces of harmful habitual inclinations And holding firmly to the peace and tranquillity within, I rejoice in the store of…
How To Be Alone Without Feeling Lonely
By: Luminita D. Saviuc “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” ~ Wayne Dyer If I have learned something from life is that there is a time for everything. There is a time for being alone with yourself, and a time for being in the company of those you love; a time…
It Only Takes 5 Seconds to Change Your Life
It Only Takes 5 Seconds to Change Your Life In an excerpt from her new book, The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins explains how you can transform your life in an instant. Mel Robbins January 3, 2017 A woman named Christine is sitting in a meeting at work. Her boss has called the meeting to…
How to Love Yourself and Others in This Reality
I had someone ask me today how do you become a more loving person. That may seem like an easy question but really it is and it isn’t. For example the deeper points of the question were not only how do you love yourself but also how to love others in a reality that may…