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November 24, 2017
Patrick Stewart’s Passionate Response
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Sir Patrick Stewart answers a very deep question at Comicpalooza 2013, with a passionate response.
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November 22, 2017
Enjoy Now
When are you?
The Practice:
Enjoy now.
Why?
There’s a profound and miraculous mystery right under our noses: this instant of now has no duration at all, yet somehow it contains all the causes from the past that are creating the future. Everything arising to become this moment vanishes beneath our feet as the next moment wells up. Since it’s always now, now is eternal.
The nature of now is not New Age or esoteric. It is plain to see. It is apparent both in the material universe and in our o...
November 14, 2017
Find Your Own Way
Did you truly choose this path?
The Practice:
Find your own way.
Why?
The human body has about 100 trillion cells (plus another ten quadrillion microscopic critters hitching a ride, most of them beneficial or harmless). Each one of your cells has aims – goals, in a sense – controlled by its DNA: cells conduct processes aimed at particular functions, like building bones or gobbling up harmful invaders. Cells also work together in larger and larger assemblies in pursuit of broader goals, such...
November 10, 2017
The Vastness of Space
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The video below shows just how huge our galaxy is. Pretty astonishing!
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November 7, 2017
Know You’re a Good Person
Who are you, deep down?
The Practice:
Know you’re a good person.
Why?
For many of us, perhaps the hardest thing of all is to believe that “I am a good person.” We can climb mountains, work hard, acquire many skills, act ethically – but truly feel that one is good deep down? Nah!
We end up not feeling like a good person in a number of ways. For example, I once knew a little girl who’d been displaced by her baby brother and fended off and scolded by her mother who was worn down and busy carin...
November 3, 2017
Powers of Ten
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Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe.
Sometimes it’s a great reminder to see our relative size, and to realize the power of just adding another zero.
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October 31, 2017
Change The Channel
What can you do when nothing is working?
The Practice:
Change the channel.
Why?
In response to a previous JOT – Find Stillness – a wise therapist, Betsy Sansby, reminded me that sometimes a person just can’t find any stillness anywhere. Maybe you have epilepsy or chronic pain, or are wildly worried about a child or other loved one, or have been rejected in love or had the bottom fall out financially. In other words, as Betsy put it, like there’s a nest of bees in your chest.
She’s right.
Some...
October 27, 2017
Never, Ever Give Up.
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Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran of the Gulf War for 15 years, and was told by his doctors that he would never be able to walk on his own, ever again. His story is proof, that we cannot place limits on what we are capable of doing, because we often do not know our own potential.
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October 24, 2017
Step into the Cloud
Juggling bricks?
The Practice:
Step into the cloud.
Why?
I had a lightbulb moment recently: I was feeling stressed about all the stuff I had to do (you probably know the feeling). After this went on for a while, I stepped back and kind of watched my mind, and could see that I was thinking of these various tasks as things, like big rocks that were rolling down a hill toward me and which needed to be handled, lifted, moved, fended off, or broken into pebbles. As soon as I dealt with one thin...
October 22, 2017
How Hard Times Can Open the Heart
From Rick Hanson’s 2016 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium keynote address, “How Hard Times Can Open the Heart”
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