Happy Groundhog Day
It’s Groundhog Day again, reminding us that too many of us live the same day over and over again. How do we get out of the trap of our stuckness? Bill Murry gives us the answer.
It’s Groundhog Day again, reminding us that too many of us live the same day over and over again. How do we get out of the trap of our stuckness? Bill Murry gives us the answer.
The next quality that is central to the Mencian conception of heart is ch’i. (For those of you who are just joining this conversation, Mencius was a great Chinese Sage who lived and wrote 2300 years ago. Central to his philosophy was the notion of “heart.” See other posts.) Ch’i is the prime energy of […]
I went to the end of the world to find the secret to life. Read on to discover the surprising and funny answer to what I found there.
In honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday, a meditation on his statement that “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.â€
Ancient cultures believed that time begins anew at the New Year. The Mayans believed there was a universal heart at the center of the universe that is the energetic source for every individual heart. Not only, then, can we have the hope, faith, and promise of rebirth at the turn of the year, but as we also emerge from, and will return to, a central point, we have the hope, faith, and promise that we are part of a universal whole.
In my psychotherapy practice, guys of all ages complain that sooner or later they lose their mojo for their sex partner. They start off being able to do it three times a night, but before long they can barely find a good reason to get it on. They don’t really understand why this happens, and […]
In the film “Bye Bye Birdie,†the character Albert, played by Dick Van Dyke, tells his mother that he has “plans†to marry his secretary, Rosie. When his mother hears this, she puts her head in the oven and tells her son to bury her in the front yard so Rosie can walk all over […]
I got an email from a client recently asking, “hey, what does it mean when you have the reoccurring dream that you’ve missed one class and this keeps you from graduating school?†The truth is, no one knows for sure. But there are a few things we do know pretty clearly from the fact that […]
Back when I was a kid I remember these great commercials for completely non-nutritious sugar-bomb cereals (I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!!!). At the end of the spots, for legal reasons, they had to say, “part of a complete breakfast,†as you’d see a shot of the cereal with two eggs and orange juice and toast […]
Recently, I have begun posting on my new obsession, brain wellness. This post will be one of the most important I will write about this subject. This information could have a major impact on your, and your family’s, health and yet most people know nothing about these facts. Doing the one thing I will suggest in this […]

