Working With Passion
Rather than becoming a success at some random role, why not start as a successful person who instead discovers their own role?Read more
Alignment
There are crucial clues about living a healthy life, hidden in the fact that people routinely do difficult and apparently unrewarding things.Read more
An Easy Life Is Not The Good Life
When providing pandemic care for those with dementia, greater awareness can turn that complex and unpleasant task into something rewarding.Read more
Exhaustion
Self-care is a critical part of caring for others. Our care must come from love, not obligation, and that love must also include ourselves.Read more
Today on CBC Radio Active: Arenas of Thought
A look into how I used a video game to create a sense of activity and community for my parents with dementia.Read more
Revisiting the Pavlovian Eater
If we want to have better control over our eating, we need to gain more control over our thoughts about eating.Read more
Healthy States of Mind
Our bodies are listening. We should listen back, and then ensure that we are having a healthy, productive conversation.Read more
Struggles and Rewards
Egos are like dogs chasing cars. They like the chase, but if they catch the car they will be lost and depressed, until the next new chase.Read more
THIS Morning
Future loves, best friends, connections to valued groups. They often happen unexpectedly, which is why every day deserves our full attention.Read more
Inherent Goodness
As this stunning example demonstrates, as humans we often fail to recognize our own remarkable qualities and/or our significant actions.Read more
Memory and Imagination: Friends or Foes?
Our memories are included in a feedback loop. When the feedback is bad, we are being prompted to alter the loop.Read more
The Reality Generator
Our memories are like a knife that can cut in two directions. They can build us up or destroy us. They should not be managed arbitrarily.Read more
Theatre of the Mind
Pandemics are hard. If we’re trapped in an anxious state, this exercise can help us shift our narrative to something more positive.Read more
Ideological Realities
We can fight over what we see as the truth. Or we can find what we agree we have in common and then work from there.Read more
Guilt vs Shame
One helps steer our ego. The other helps steer our soul.Read more
Seeking vs. Finding Life
Good lives are found more than sought. And they are discovered more often than they are consciously created. Find yours today.Read more
Routine Meditations
We don’t have experiences that result in emotions. We have thoughts about those experiences that result in emotions.Read more
The Positivity Perspective
Nothing generates more good feelings than being more conscious about what we choose to think about, and how we choose to think about it.Read more
Contraction and Expansion
We can focus on personal thoughts which serve to make us smaller, or on the world itself, which expands us. Where our attention flows, our life will go.Read more
The Identity Rut
We awaken free, then quickly build limits in our mind. It is a healthy thing to become more aware of what those limits are and why they are there.Read more
Scientific Spirituality
The physics of energy and elements becomes the chemistry of compounds, some of which combine to form infinite variations of biology and matter.Read more
What Is Your Health Identity?
We all have silent ‘health identities’ that can lead us to believe we are both healthier, AND sicker, than we really are.Read more
Intentional Attention
Reality can be painfully random. Or it can become a positive intention, chosen from the hidden potential in everyone’s daily life.Read more
Perspectives on Identity
Everyone is worthy, and yet none of us will never feel acceptable to others until we feel acceptable to ourselves.Read more
Resolution Assignment 10
If we want the remainder of our lives to be as good or better than what we’ve already experienced then that will only happen if we actively intend it to.Read more
Resolution Assignment 9
A year into the pandemic, even healthy people are struggling. These three assignments are designed to incite positivity in our lives.Read more
Resolution Assignment 8
Three short meditations designed to explore the boundaries between ourselves, others, and what we perceive as the ‘external world.’Read more
Resolution Assignment 7
We have more influence over our reality than we give ourselves credit for. But with great power comes great responsibility.Read more
Resolution Assignment 6
The way to feel better about ourselves is to forget about who we think we are, and to focus instead on on the good we’ve done.Read more
Resolution Assignment 5
This meditation is designed to remind us that the world is filled with good and decent people –including us.Read more
Resolution Assignment 4
These 3 short, simple meditations all call upon different aspects of our sense of generosity.Read more
Resolution Assignment 3
These meditations may appear insignificant, but they are changing habitual reactions into conscious ones. That alone makes all the difference in the world.Read more
COVID Meets Mindfulness
COVID’s created a surprising grouping. When people talk about being stressed, and they fail to reach out for help, it’s often these people.Read more
Resolution Assignment 2
A happy new year unfurls like the layers of an onion. We just have to peel back each day with a genuine intention to notice our way to a great day.Read more
Resolution Assignment 1
The first in a series of meditations designed to both make the pandemic easier, and to affect meaningful personal change over time.Read more
The 2021 Resolution Assignments
Join us in a New Years series of simple daily assignments designed to help us all start each day feeling centered, confident and focused.Read more
Turning the Lessons of 2020 into a Resolution for 2021
2020 taught us what to be grateful for. So in 2021 let’s be more appreciative of the countless things and people that create the value in our lives.Read more
MiG 25: Christmas Spirit
What exactly is ‘Christmas spirit?’ And how can we use it to help us with the challenges we’ll all face in 2021, as we wrestle down the pandemic?Read more
MiG 24: Connections
Society can feel like a busy and complex background to life, but it is a healthy thing to learn to appreciate our most unconscious connections.Read more
MiG 23: The Sum of Experience
People focus too much on what they don’t know. This meditation teaches us how to recognize our own growth in wisdom and capability.Read more
MiG 22: The Fortunate One
Studies have shown that people who feel lucky aren’t luckier, they just do a better job at spotting good fortune than people who feel unlucky.Read more
MiG 21: Shifting Focus
We have many abilities. It’s up to us to practice the most useful ones so that we can live with greater self-confidence and self-respect.Read more
Meditations in Gratitude 20: Relative Appreciation
By studying the ways in which we shift the value of people, places and things, we help to demonstrate how flexible reality truly is.Read more
MiG 19: The Wisdom of Letting Go
We are wise to give ourselves credit any time we abandon an idea that fails to help us realize growth, connection, peace or joy in our lives.Read more
MiG 18: The Gratitude Wave
By participating in #TheGratitudeWave we can help to combat some of the negative psychological effects created by COVID’s second wave,Read more
MiG 17: Made of Others
Being grateful for the massive system of people that feeds us from birth to death is low-hanging fruit on the gratitude tree. đŸ™‚Read more
MiG 16: Measuring Success
What if the nature of thought led people to believe we were doing poorly when in reality we’ve actually done far better than we thought?Read more
Meditation in Gratitude 15: Societal Success
It’s like the ‘White Rabbit’ song. One thought makes us larger, and one thought makes us small. The question is, which one did we think?Read more
MiG 14: Accounting For Wisdom
We’re always so focused on finding out what we don’t know that we forget to account for all of the strengths and capabilities we have gathered.Read more
MiG 13: Trigger Happy
If we accept our negative feelings we can use them to trigger healthier responses.Read more
Mig 12: When Someone ‘Gets You.’
They add value to life, so we’re wise to be actively grateful for life’s stronger connections, be they rejuvenating people, places or activities.Read more
MiG 11: Transition Emotions
There are emotions that we skip over so quickly that we can often forget that they really matter. Especially if we’re seeking a more rewarding life.Read more
Meditations in Gratitude 10: Voices of Awareness
By choosing something particular to focus on we can practice the act of conscious awareness, which is a form of presence with the moment we’re in.Read more
MiG 9: Goodness Graciousness
Treating people in ways they may feel are better than they deserve, can help them to see more of their as-yet untapped potential.Read more
MiG 8: Exposition By Contrast
Living a life of equanimity requires us to appreciate that without darkness there can be no meaningful light.Read more
MiG 7: Scientific Expressions of Love
Let’s take some time to really think about all our healthcare requires and let us be grateful for every single part of it.Read more
MiG 6: Fostering Equanimity
This meditation urges us to relax into our existing reality by exposing how bad we are at knowing what is actually good for us.Read more
Cultures of Appreciation
Many cultures find pleasure in winter confinement, and fortunately, the skills they use to do that can also apply to COVID’s 2nd wave.Read more
Meditations in Gratitude 5: Crisis and Opportunity
Every crises carries with it the seeds of opportunity. Our role is in finding ways to nurture and cultivate those seeds.Read more
MiG 4: Expressions
Bring joy to your life by expressing your gratitude to the people who have introduced you to some of your favourite things in life.Read more
MiG 3: Radar for Kindness
If we tune ourselves to watch for kindness in action, it will both make us more present, and we’ll realize we live in a pretty good world.Read more
MiG 2: Visionary Awareness
Day Two of our meditation series is designed to help us all get through the second wave.Read more
Meditations in Gratitude 1: Conjuring Anticipation
To feel grateful we must learn to prime our minds be be tuned to spot aspects of life that are worth appreciating.Read more
Daily Exercises in Gratitude
Why not choose a friend and start each morning with an awareness exercise that is designed to strengthen our long term ability to be grateful?Read more
The Science of Mindfulness
Yet another Harvard scientific study demonstrates the power of mindfulness to affect meaningful behavioural change.Read more
Comparison as Perspective
A transcript of a conversation about how to draw personal value from mindfully considering the sacrifices made by others on our behalf.Read more
Remembrance Day Revisited
A conversation on how we can turn an intentional, meditative experience on Remembrance Day, into a year-long practice of gratitude.Read more
Contexts for Love
Empathy is a form of love, but it only exists in the context of pain. This is an important lesson in how life is shaped.Read more
Your Sphere of Influence
We would see all the light of the universe if we didn’t shield ourselves from it, by maintaining negative ideas about who we are.Read more
Accepting Difference
Others are not vastly different from ourselves. We are all simply different keys, for different locks. But we are all still keys.Read more
The Reality of Social Pain
Loneliness is a form of social pain that is complicated by the size of modern societies.Read more
Maintaining a Healthy Approach to the Second Wave
Grab a friend. Turn COVID’s 2nd wave into a lesson on increasing our awareness and our appreciation of life.Read more
A Healthy Whole
Don’t make yourself sick by trying to avoid what you think of as weakness.Read more
Don’t Just Change Your Job, Change Your Life
We want to stop looking for things that will impress us or others. We want to look for things that service our impulses.Read more
Intentional Mornings
Mornings are huge opportunities because that’s when we gather in our sense of identity.Read more
The Nature of Commitment
Our impulses point to who we are at our core. Get to know that person. Because that version of us has a special grace to them.Read more
The Crucible of Loneliness
To understand what we are experiencing we must first understand that the darkness itself is like a holding space for our agony.Read more
Art as a Mirror for the Soul
In living life, everyone wants ‘a sign’ of what to do. Well, artists make signs for a living.Read more
Apocalypse Now
I will continue to be available for sessions. But in addition I am also working on some plans to try to attend to the needs of those for who do not have the option of working directly with me.Read more
The Vagaries of Life
Life is capricious every single day. Good people face terrible tragedies, and benefit from wonderful good fortune.Read more
Untangled Paradoxes
The capacity was always there. What’s changed is that we lose the thought-limits that create the paradox.Read more
Adding Unity to a Community
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make them a friend.Read more
Digital Dating
People can definitely find lasting happiness through dating apps. But even if we use them, it should be done so with an awareness of how the process itself alters what it is that we think we’re doing.Read more
Relationship Balance
We should not lose sight of their soul or their sense of purpose, any more than we should lose sight of our own.Read more
Social Graces
There are still people alive today that think there is no greater weakness than showing weakness.Read more
Media as Meditation
The shows and films we watch carry hidden depth. Finding that meaning takes us out of our own heads and into a beneficial state of wonder.Read more
Love is a Verb
A lot of people judge their parents, or previous generations, without really knowing what life was truly like for those people. Understanding creates empathy.Read more
The Sum Of Our Life
Our value is not created only by what we accomplish, it is also created by what we we care about, and make sacrifices for.Read more
Motherhood Revisited
It’s a healthy thing to come to terms with some of life’s greatest internal conflicts.Read more
Transitions
If all of us grow and learn throughout our lives. These lessons change how we see the world and ourselves.Read more
Our Place in Life
Even if we can’t be there, there is a peace that comes with knowing where and how we fit in and belong.Read more
Aspects of Reality
Unless they learn to understand one another, logically focused people and emotionally focused people can come into unnecessary conflict.Read more
Attractive to Others
Admirers can reflect our best selves back to us, but only love will bring light to the trenches.Read more
Dialed In
The two aspects of mental health include our awareness of our thinking, and our ability to shift its course.Read more
5 Awareness-Raising Questions
We think so much we’re often not even aware of the things or people we care about.Read more
Generational Differences
A lot of Baby Boomer’s impressions of their childhoods include a painful misunderstanding.Read more
Psychospiritual Impedance
Our insecurity grows in direct relation to the amount of self-critical thinking we engage in.Read more
Tapping Into A Better Life
How might your life be better tomorrow than it is today?Read more
The Devil’s Advocate
We forget that we can be good friends with people who are very different from us.Read more
Threads of Generosity
They happen in our soundscape and in our field of view all of the time. Billions of possible points of focus –and thoughts about that point- are possible in any given moment. Our reality is formed by the patterns we have regarding how and why we choose those particular bits of reality to form ‘ours.’…Read more