Pause Your Machinery: How Past Traumas Can Shape Our Machinery

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 master, and this

16 Jul, 2014
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How Childhood Traumas Influence Your Programming

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon I’ve noticed that many of us have a single story or trauma from our childhood that both creates and defines the filter through which we see much of the world and that has had

8 Jul, 2014
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WHY I LOVE MY DOGS

I’ve always loved dogs. I had a couple of puppies when I was a kid, but they didn’t last long around the house, and it always ended in mystery because my parents never explained what happened to them. At 24, I got my first dog as a grown-up to complete the “wife, house and dog”

11 Jul, 2013
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POSSIBILITY

Lately I’ve been thinking about possibility. We’re so used to the word that we take it for granted, but for me, possibility isn’t just a word; it’s a concept, a philosophy, a way of life—and it’s something I had to learn and that I still have to be mindful of in order to make sure

9 Jul, 2013
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Thoughts About The Statue Of Buddha

I have a huge statue of Buddha (about five-feet tall and 800 pounds) in my front garden. It’s unique, inspiring, and pleasing, and even a glance reassures me that everything’s going to be okay in a larger sense. The feeling reminds me of when my son Blake was a little boy sharing his fears.

4 Jul, 2013
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