Ever feel tired or run down? Who doesn’t? It’s completely natural for us to feel depleted of energy throughout the day. We go to bed and, hopefully, feel more restored the next day. It can often feel like we have a limited supply of energy. However, once we feel a strong enough emotion, it can suddenly...
Have you ever felt forced to make a decision you didn’t want to make? What about feeling trapped and unable to escape a bad situation whether it was work-related or a personal relationship? How about being told by an authority figure that you must comply with their directions or risk expulsion from something, or...
Have you ever tried to express how you feel about something, only to be completely misunderstood or left feeling frustrated by the response? Ever had a conversation with someone only to have it completely break down or descend into an argument? Who hasn’t? Today, it seems as though arguing and divisiveness are rampant in our society. It...
Admittedly, the title of this blog sounds like a very loaded question. If you’ve asked it within the past two years, the responses have likely been varied and also filled with emotion. These days it may feel more like regression versus progression when it comes to our society and humanity. We live in a world...
When thinking about making the world better, one of our first thoughts may be something like supporting recycling programs or cleaning up the trash around us. We may even think about being more kind and supportive of each other. Whatever comes to mind, before we can do anything to improve the world, we must...
Most of us are familiar with “peace of mind” and share this aspirational phrase as part of the human experience. We want to live in peace and have a fulfilling life. We can even go to great lengths to create it, whether moving to places where we believe it exists or cutting ties with...
Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. - Rumi This beautiful and wise quote is a powerful reminder that there is so much more to life than simply being right or wrong, this or that, and any other binary thing you want to label. When...
Gripping the handles as I hiked along the stair climbing machine, I looked over and noticed the guy next to me sharing this journey to nowhere. I noticed he was wearing a hoodie representing a local university which we both supported. The name of the university isn’t important and would distract from the point...
“Activate” and “Humanity”, two words that mean something different. When put together, what do they mean to you? Activate: Trigger. Stimulate. Start something. Begin a process. Humanity: Humankind. Human race. Kindness. Compassion. For some, it means giving a crap about each other. For others, it means giving a crap about ourselves in order to help others. Two...
The Fundamental Attribution Error references a tendency we have as humans to attribute another person’s action to their personality, often labeling them in the process, and our own actions are attributed to our external situation or circumstances. For example, we see someone cut in line way up ahead of us to get to the front...
