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Survey Says… – April 15, 2012 Meditation
Survey Says Researchers have shown that by noticing things you are grateful for increases your happiness. In a study done (Emmons, R. A., & McCullough, M. E. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003. 84(2), 377-389) it was shown…
Contemplating Disease – Part 5c – Comforting the Ill – September 3, 2018
Walking the fine line between remembering the emptiness of the body and dwelling upon final extinction is often the fine line many who deliver medical care and care-givers travel. How do you be honest without being forlorn or slipping into causing hopelessness. Vimalakirti saw this difficulty and cautioned the person seeking to provide comfort. Not…
Difficult? Yes, but not impossible
Possessing vs. Being
Religion is it what you are or who you are? Do you possess religion or are you an integral part?
Hiking
June 22, 2010 – today I took the dog for a hike up to the top of Kings Pinnacle at Crowders Mountain State Park in Kings Mountain North Carolina. She and I have been ‘training’ now for several months, going on long walks several times a day. Last week we did the trail at Kings Mountain National Historic site and she and I both enjoyed it, well I guess she did, her tail was wagging…
