Fear Keeps Us From Choice Today, much American thought and behavior is driven by fear.  Given the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the lengthy covid pandemic (two years and counting), the January 6th attack on our own national capitol, mass shootings (how many of those in the last two years), and alarming and fear-mongering political

My friend Enzo has high blood pressure and has had to confront all the scary possibilities it presents.  Medications have not helped to bring it down.  His doctor sent him home with instructions to use a blood pressure monitor and take his pressure daily.  He says he has really disliked having to do that at

DO IT YOURSELF CHANGE WORK Self-criticism is a disabling energy that hinders creative thinking and reduces the quality of life.  Changing thoughts from how wrong you’ve been or how badly you performed to what is possible or what is right in this very moment causes a cascade of changes in the body’s chemistry, and changes

As far back as the 1970s there were M.D.s working to integrate medicine and metaphysics.  Forty years ago I attended talks and workshops by M.D.s like Irving Oyle, Brugh Joy, Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel and others, who were adamant that the American medical model was, at the very least, inadequate.   These outliers all included

My Ayurveda doctor friend tells me in conversation that all ailments begin in the gut.  She makes a good, understandable case for it.  

Virtually all spiritual or religious paths teach unconditional love. But everybody I know grew up experiencing love as conditional, with our parents generously expressing love for approved behaviors and clearly withholding it for disapproved ones. 

“It can be really hard to wrap your head around the idea that everything, everything in your life, is a reflection of your thinking.”

Thinking can seem a sometimes involuntary, mostly random experience, something that just happens as we go about our lives.