I decided I wanted to find a mantra to use to meditate but wasn’t sure what it should be. I didn’t take TM training when I was young, and it was popular. So, instead, I decided to Google one. There’s the standard Om, which is said to be the most powerful, as well as several others like Om Namah Shivaya, Aham Prema, and Ho’oponopono, which I can’t even pronounce but I … [Read more...]
Top Meditation Practices To Help With Mental Wellness
Among the stresses and difficulties of modern life, it can be really difficult to find the time you need to cope with emotions and what you may be happening in your life. It doesn’t have to be this way but dealing with your mental health works in a spiral making it increasingly difficult to help yourself the deeper in you get. Meditation can be a helpful tool to get a better … [Read more...]
How Baby Boomers Can Embrace Hygge for Winter Wellness
Wikipedia defines hygge as “a mood of coziness and comfortable conviviality with feelings of wellness and contentment.” It’s a Danish word, and no good equivalent seems to exist in American English. Maybe that’s because we invented the rat race, and the two are diametrically opposed. According to HyggeHouse.com, hygge involves living life at a slower pace and adopting an … [Read more...]
Do You Know Your Immigrant Past? It Can be Fascinating
With all the talk about the invasion of the migrant housekeeper/gardeners, which is blatant fear mongering in my opinion, I thought it would be appropriate to write about my family’s immigrant past and their arrival in America. 99% of Americans have ancestors who came to the U.S. from another country. According to a 2012 study, only 1.7 percent of the US population is 100% … [Read more...]
Atonement – Fragility – Resilience – Messages for Yom Kippur
In the interest of transparency, I’m a holiday-celebrating Jew. I show up when I’m invited but don’t attend Temple regularly. However, Judaism is in my DNA. (I just checked on AncestryDNA and I’m 52% Eastern European Jewish with the new update) I usually attend my girlfriend’s annual Hannukah and Passover evenings. This is the 2nd time I’ve attended The Temple of the Arts at … [Read more...]
