Molly and Aaron Heit included a hand-fasting in their wedding ceremony. They invited all the guest to help them “tie the knot” and parents were invited to bestow a one word blessing with an explanation. My blessing for them was…
Category: Positive psychology
Learned Optimism
From Philosopher’s Notes: “There are three crucial dimensions to your explanatory style: permanence, pervasiveness, and personalization” ~ Martin Seligman from Learned Optimism “Practice disputing your automatic interpretations all the time from now on.” Permanence: Is it likely to continue? Is it permanent or…
Finding My Inner Squirrel
In the Philosopher’s Note about Overachievement, Brian Johnson talks about how squirrels don’t engage their cerebral cortex before scurrying across a high wire. They just do it. Our cerebral cortexes save us from being squashed squirrels by the side of…
2009’s Monthly Challenges Reviewed
While some folks make new years resolutions, our experience has generally been that we start out with good intentions and a good head of steam, and within a few months, the resolution gets lost in the shuffle of our busy…
Taking the Philosopher’s Notes 50 Day Challenge
We’ve both signed up for the 50 day challenge (warning, link automatically starts video) to read/discuss 2 “Philosopher’s Note” every day for 50 days. They have you take a questionnaire at the beginning and again at the end. Based on…
Living with a loving heart
Heart is the only organ in the human body that has earned a fair amount of fame and prominence. Right from a poet, novelist, lyricist, paeans have all sung about the mischief of the heart. If you feel touched your…
Money = Life Energy
In the book, “Your Money or Your Life,” Joe Dominguez provided a definition as “Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.” For the month of July, we decided to try to track every penny we spent.…
Cope with a crisis
David Allen, the Getting Things Done guy, is now writing for the Wired.co.uk. He wrote an essay called Cope with a Crisis that points out some of the effects of trying to be connected to everything everywhere 24/7. He points…
Dream Yoga
Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, provides training on how to remember your dreams, and a world of additional dreamy advice. By focusing in a prescribed manner (detailed in the book) and…
Have we lost our souls in a constant quest for speed, entertainment, and convenience?
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