Advice

I am now reading a wonderful book: “Mindsight,” by Dr. Daniel Siegel, an innovator in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy. “Mindsight” is his extraordinary guide to the practice of the same name, defined as the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. From...

April 23 to 30, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Saturn   Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter The Taurus zodiac month lasts from approximately April 19th to May 20th of every year, but due to the fact that the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution around the...

Stress free, reduces aging, increases attention span, helps you feel more connected, improves metabolic function and helps weight loss. Those are just a few of the much vaunted benies of mediation. But instead of making you feel good about your new practice, meditation is making you anxious...

Writing for the Huff Post, Maddie Crum and Claire Fallon of the Huff Post suggest “7 Brilliant Books You Should Read While YouAre Waiting for Spring to Actually Come." An epidemic of memory loss sweeps the nation, leaving survivors to piece together their recollections of pre-apocalyptic...

It could come down to an easy way to climb the social ladder – without taking a single step. Maddie Crum writes in the Huff Post about “The Real Reason Why You Love Don Draper, According to Science." What will become of Don Draper? As the final season...

April 16 to 23, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Saturn         Evening: Venus, Jupiter A late degree Aries New Moon – which will always take place in the final week of the Aries zodiac month – is a good time to really get going on spring projects. The...

Tim DeChristopher is a familiar name on campus. In fact he could be the poster boy for the Mountainfilm in Telluride. Not only does the man embody Mountainfilm’s motto, “Celebrating the Indomitable Spirit,” he is the exclamation point on the event’s driving idea: awareness into action. Tim began...

For the post several weeks, I have been spending time, about 20 minutes a day, with Oprah and Deepak, following the latest in their series of guided meditation practices - and loving it. Meditation quiets the noise in my head, calms and clarifies. The list of...

“Don’t let him play so close to the edge!” I warned. “He’s fine,” said my husband. He gets frustrated by my helicopter parenting, the way I constantly hover too close, trying to protect the kids. “Okay,” I fumed. “But he’s gonna fall in.” KERPLOP! He emerged from...

April 9 to 16, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Saturn   Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter It’s howling wind outside and Spring has sprung. I’ve been thinking about the world, and how much it seems to have changed since the Mayan Long Count Calendar end date of December 21,...