“Yoga, Meditation and Prayer… I think they all live on the same continuum.” She said. “Continuum of what?” I asked. “I’m not sure”, she said, “but I have a sense that they are all connected and on some sort of continuum.” “I have a theory,” I told her, “This is…

Are you ever in a bad mood? Yes? What about anxious or fearful? I am about to tell you something about a bad mood that may not make sense at first. But stick with me. There is something profound to see here… I went to visit my mom this past…

from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals — Resilience is built in — it is not something we need to find or discover, it is innate We were made to heal and time is our friend The amount of time it takes to heal is arbitrary and unpredictable and irrelevant If we don’t like the way we are…

1. We — me, you and them — all live in the experience of our thinking 2. Our thinking creates our reality 3. There is no such thing as an objective reality 4. We all live in separate realities 5. Really seeing another person requires taking ourselves out of the…

Confidence lives inside of us, we don’t need to, nor is it possible to go find it anywhere else We are born confident and it can only be obscured by our insecure thinking I can feel confident trying something new, if I don’t get caught in self-consciousness Confidence does not…

And a few others that I am pretty sure about — There is no such thing as a stressful job or a stressful situation Stress comes from my thinking about — conscious or unconscious Calm is our natural state, it lives in all of us before our stressful thinking and we don’t need to go find it, we can simply allow…

from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals — “First you must learn to listen, and this will take courage.” — Sydney Banks, Second Chance I used to have a job that required me to attend a lot of meetings. I would joke that I averaged 27 meetings per week, but it wasn’t a joke. Every once in a…

from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals — The minute I think about biting a lemon my mouth starts to salivate in the back on both sides of my tongue. In the part of the mouth that responds to tasting sour. I don’t have a lemon anywhere in sight but it doesn’t matter. …

from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals — Yes, I know, me too. I used to think that my stress was helpful. Got me motivated, up off my butt, moving a little faster. That’s what “they” tell us, right? But I was wrong, and this is what I have learned. Let me assure you that I still experience…