Our view of what’s possible is determined by our beliefs—our assumptions about reality. Below are two collections of assumptions about the work of developing…
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MBSR: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction exercises
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center for patients suffering from pain. MBSR teaches individuals the…
VOLUNTARY POVERTY: Our life is more than our work
What do you do for a living?”—or its shorter (and more annoying) cousin, “So, what do you do?”—is the kind of question I avoid these days. n my head, I tend to get snotty: “I live for a living, duh!”…
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IN SEARCH OF TRUTH: Personal vs. collective vs. absolute truth
Each of us has a personal sense of truth, a description of what the world is and how and why it functions as it does. This also includes our ideas about who we are and the meaning of life. As we…
GANDHIAN RETRAINING: Personal transformation for social change
Learning to do something well is a challenging and powerful journey of discovery. If we want to speak Portuguese fluently or play the cello in a way that reverberates in the deepest reaches of our…
SOMATIC EDUCATION: Use Feldenkrais to experience the body within
Just as we develop social habits such as smoking or arguing, our body develops habits such as poor posture and tension. Feldenkrais is a method of somatic…
ACCEPT THE FLOW: The art of letting go of negative thoughts
This spring I find myself caught in a mental loop, rethinking the same negative thoughts over and over, unable to take a step back and gain any sort of perspective for longer than a few brief…
VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE: An interview with energy healer Margie Mulligan
In 1987, I started a two-year course on Ancient Egyptian Mysteries from Nadia K. Eagles sharing what she and 17 generations of initiates had been taught secretly for centuries. I learned that just by…
RYAN’S WELL: The inspiring story of a 6-year-old who set out to solve the world’s water problem
When he was in kindergarten, Ryan Hreljac heard that children in a Ugandan village had to walk many kilometres every day for fresh drinking water, and set out to raise the $70 he believed it would…
THE HOLE-IN-THE-WALL EXPERIMENT: Using minimally invasive education to tap into children’s natural curiosity
Sugata Mitra has a PhD in physics and heads research efforts at New Delhi’s NIIT, a fast-growing software and education company with sales of $200 million-plus and a market cap of more than $2…
ART AND WELLNESS: Creating art for self-expression and healing
From finger-painting to intricate landscape portraits, Lady Gaga to Chopin, art provokes spiritual wellness. Even before hospitals hired musicians to perform for traumatized veterans during the…
TRUISM ART: Jenny Holzer’s conceptual art questions generally accepted truths
“Protect me from what I want.” A pithy, almost reactionary statement for our time, acknowledging a certain overindulgence, an excess. What we want is simply too much. Such are the messages…
NATURAL CLEANSE DIET: Eating Ayurvedically with kitchari
If you’re a foodie wanting to clean your system out, but can’t stand the thought of a strict fast, try eating some kitchari. Ayurvedic doctors swear by this hearty dish…
THE WEB OF LIFE: We’re all in this together
One of the most commonly heard phrases today is, “We’re all in this together.” From high-level leaders to local school board members to teenagers offering service, this is the mantra of our time….
GREEN EXERCISE: Improve your mental health by exercising outdoors
The colour green gets a lot of attention these days. It’s usually used to denote environmentally-friendly products or services, but in this case, “green exercise” actually refers to physical activity that…
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