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...]
Crystals and Meditation: How to Use Gemstones to Set Intentions
The practice of meditation in some form has been around from the beginning of the human race. Prehistoric man gazed at the stars, Aztecs worshiped the sun, Egyptians built pyramids, Islanders worshiped the sea gods, others prayed to Buddha, Ganesh, Jesus, or other deities. All of them, in some way, used gemstones and other objects of nature to contemplate the meaning of life … [Read more...]
