To love at all is to be vulnerable.C.S. Lewis In the field of Positive Psychology, we’ve learned that successful, thriving relationships require the following: love, authenticity, appreciation, trust, empathy, belonging, attunement, and vulnerability. It...
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.Paulo Coelho It doesn’t matter how lucky you are or how much money you have. If you’re constantly tired and feeling run down, a million dollars in your...
Shame is a soul-eating emotion. C. G. Jung There’s one emotion in the human experience that feels downright icky. Nothing else leaves us wanting to shrivel up, more than shame. We’ve all felt it at some point in time or another: feeling like there was...
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.Albert Einstein Mental Imagery, also known as visualization, is a...
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.Jim Rohn The Basics There are basics to taking care of your body: proper nutrition, plenty of water intake, and exercise. Of course, we all hear this everywhere we go. But it bears repeating. If you...
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.Lou Holtz Did you know that scientists estimate: 99.99% of species that were ever alive are now extinct? There’s a lot that goes into survival. Luckily for us, the only one that...
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.Charles Swindoll Life is all about mastery. No matter what religion/spiritual practice you engage in, a common thread is that you’re here to master something. Specifically, you’re here to master...
Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.Bob Proctor I love anything and everything mystical. In fact, it outshines my passion for finding the science of what makes us humans tick. So naturally when I first learned about the...
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.Buddha Growing up, I experienced a few instances of bullying – both covert and overt. It was a painful experience, being bullied. But...
Be aware of your thoughts; they are the beginning of your acts.Lao Tzu In college, I used to bartend between semesters to make some extra cash. There was one particular bar I worked at that would get pretty busy on the weekends in NYC. On those particular nights, I...
