To mark Women’s History Month, I thought I’d share with you this extraordinary, powerful TED Talk by internationally acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Please watch and share!
A calm mind, the ability to have clear thoughts and a deeply energized & relaxed body are the possible result
I have addressed the topic of assumptions before but it was a long time ago. The reason I want to write about assumptions once more is because they are recurrent in pretty much everyone’s lives. It’s astonishing how easily and subreptitiously assumptions can take hold of our perspective. When we act driven by what we assume, things can get rocky.
Living the life we want, free and in peace, deserves a daily celebration. It is so simple – but it’s by no means easy, or common.
How many times do we meet people who, despite of having ‘everything’ they could possibly want, are not free?
When someone praises us most of us adopt an attitude of polite disbelief. We think it vain to rejoice in our strengths. Instead of saying ‘thank you for that’ and believing it, we tend to make self-deprecating remarks of the following sort:
With so many communication tools that didn’t exist one hundred years ago, our social conducts have multiplied almost infinitely. It only takes a few movements of your fingers to connect with another person and exchange opinions.
Life is full of transitions. Just as the sunset marks the end of day and the beginning of night, many events in our daily lives signal subtle transitions that have become so familiar to us, that we hardly notice them. When we leave work, for example, our very facial expression transforms in a way that may only be noticeable to very few of our closest relatives or loved ones.
We all have our ‘pet peeves’: those little – or sometimes not so little – things that drive us up the wall and make us lose our grasp of reality. Many times these reactions are a response to continuous stress; or to a series of unpleasant experiences that we endure one after another without properly manifesting our emotions in the right way at the right place and time. Then, something silly happens and we just explode. We’ve all been there: it’s only human.
What a challenging couple of weeks we’ve had, wow. The main theme of 2016 seems to be impermanence. I had already noticed this shift a week ago, which is why the message last Sunday was about change. Even though change is always taking place one way or another, these past few days have been rather full of shocking news and unexpected transformations.
Whenever abrupt change comes into our lives, it shakes us to the very core. When the change is positive, however sudden, we tend not to think too much about it and we concentrate on feeling happy and grateful which is great. When the change is not that positive or when a painful incident (a loss, an accident, or even a close brush with death) takes place, we spend a long time trying to make sense of what our life truly means.
You have probably been wished a happy new year a lot these past few days and you have more than likely replied in the same manner. While it’s beautiful and noble to wish a happy new year to one another; the truth is that setting intentions for the new year is never as simple as that. It’s not enough to feel it – you have to do the work, too.
This week I have no suggestions for you. Instead, I want to thank you on behalf of all of us at LifePath Center (practitioners, teachers, staff, and management) for making us a part of your life during 2015.
Most of us usually end the year with a list of losses, disappointments and unfortunate events. Some of them (such as the death of loved ones) we will never fully overcome but we can learn how to carry on with our lives in a loving spirit, honoring the memory of our relatives and friends who have passed on.
December is full of moments that make us reflect on our spiritual life. Many different religions hold important festivities throughout the month, marked by rituals that have endured for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Here we are again: December. The end of the year. The piling-up of to-do’s. The multiple meetings, parties, cocktails, get-togethers, family reunions, etc. As usual, many of us are not mentally or emotionally ready for this season of deadlines, closures, balances, and all the rest of the activities that have become so typical of the last month of the year.
For those of you who, as I do, celebrate Thanksgiving; I hope you had a beautiful time with your loved ones, and that you had the opportunity to thank all of them for the positive energy and the support they bring into your life.
What if someone told us that the way we think about stress actually has an impact on the way it affects our health? For me, this theory sounds completely plausible.
We exercise the power of our word every day, with every conversation, every e-mail, every text, every Facebook comment, and so on. It’s an action whose frequency can sometimes mask its importance.
To mark Women’s History Month, I thought I’d share with you this extraordinary, powerful TED Talk by internationally acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Please watch and share!
A calm mind, the ability to have clear thoughts and a deeply energized & relaxed body are the possible result
I have addressed the topic of assumptions before but it was a long time ago. The reason I want to write about assumptions once more is because they are recurrent in pretty much everyone’s lives. It’s astonishing how easily and subreptitiously assumptions can take hold of our perspective. When we act driven by what we assume, things can get rocky.
Living the life we want, free and in peace, deserves a daily celebration. It is so simple – but it’s by no means easy, or common.
How many times do we meet people who, despite of having ‘everything’ they could possibly want, are not free?
When someone praises us most of us adopt an attitude of polite disbelief. We think it vain to rejoice in our strengths. Instead of saying ‘thank you for that’ and believing it, we tend to make self-deprecating remarks of the following sort:
With so many communication tools that didn’t exist one hundred years ago, our social conducts have multiplied almost infinitely. It only takes a few movements of your fingers to connect with another person and exchange opinions.
Life is full of transitions. Just as the sunset marks the end of day and the beginning of night, many events in our daily lives signal subtle transitions that have become so familiar to us, that we hardly notice them. When we leave work, for example, our very facial expression transforms in a way that may only be noticeable to very few of our closest relatives or loved ones.
We all have our ‘pet peeves’: those little – or sometimes not so little – things that drive us up the wall and make us lose our grasp of reality. Many times these reactions are a response to continuous stress; or to a series of unpleasant experiences that we endure one after another without properly manifesting our emotions in the right way at the right place and time. Then, something silly happens and we just explode. We’ve all been there: it’s only human.
What a challenging couple of weeks we’ve had, wow. The main theme of 2016 seems to be impermanence. I had already noticed this shift a week ago, which is why the message last Sunday was about change. Even though change is always taking place one way or another, these past few days have been rather full of shocking news and unexpected transformations.
Whenever abrupt change comes into our lives, it shakes us to the very core. When the change is positive, however sudden, we tend not to think too much about it and we concentrate on feeling happy and grateful which is great. When the change is not that positive or when a painful incident (a loss, an accident, or even a close brush with death) takes place, we spend a long time trying to make sense of what our life truly means.
You have probably been wished a happy new year a lot these past few days and you have more than likely replied in the same manner. While it’s beautiful and noble to wish a happy new year to one another; the truth is that setting intentions for the new year is never as simple as that. It’s not enough to feel it – you have to do the work, too.
This week I have no suggestions for you. Instead, I want to thank you on behalf of all of us at LifePath Center (practitioners, teachers, staff, and management) for making us a part of your life during 2015.
Most of us usually end the year with a list of losses, disappointments and unfortunate events. Some of them (such as the death of loved ones) we will never fully overcome but we can learn how to carry on with our lives in a loving spirit, honoring the memory of our relatives and friends who have passed on.
December is full of moments that make us reflect on our spiritual life. Many different religions hold important festivities throughout the month, marked by rituals that have endured for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Here we are again: December. The end of the year. The piling-up of to-do’s. The multiple meetings, parties, cocktails, get-togethers, family reunions, etc. As usual, many of us are not mentally or emotionally ready for this season of deadlines, closures, balances, and all the rest of the activities that have become so typical of the last month of the year.
For those of you who, as I do, celebrate Thanksgiving; I hope you had a beautiful time with your loved ones, and that you had the opportunity to thank all of them for the positive energy and the support they bring into your life.
What if someone told us that the way we think about stress actually has an impact on the way it affects our health? For me, this theory sounds completely plausible.
We exercise the power of our word every day, with every conversation, every e-mail, every text, every Facebook comment, and so on. It’s an action whose frequency can sometimes mask its importance.
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