Abundance vs. Scarcity

My girlfriend and I recently had dinner with two close friends, who asked my girlfriend how it’s going living with me and my 96-year-old mother, and she responded, “It’s really good.” Both friends looked back at us quizzically, and one of them said, “I’m surprised because she’s never liked any of Steve’s girlfriends. What’s your

24 Jul, 2014
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Will We Ever Learn to Be at Peace?

Last week got back from Israel, on what was my third trip there over the last 20 years. My strongest impression this time came from a visit to Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park, which encompasses the ruins of Maresha, an ancient city of Judaea. This is a working archaeological site, with thousands of man-made caves,

10 Jul, 2014
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Pause Your Machinery: Dealing with Past Traumas

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon: Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness to learn and

3 Jul, 2014
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Why I Recommend Meditation

I meditated without realizing it for over 40 years when I was a runner. I ran six miles, six days a week. I’d start running, and a minute into it I’d be in my “runner’s trance.” The great thing about running for me was being unable to keep a focused train of thought on a

26 Jun, 2014
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What To Do If You’re Very Self-Critical

A friend of mine thinks her adult children are wonderful people, and yet often she can’t sleep due to her constant self-criticism over the mistakes she feels she made parenting her children when they were young. The fact that she’s proud of them now and they love her does nothing to stop the self-criticism or

20 Jun, 2014
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