Difficulty Sleeping
Empty Nest
Goodbyes are not my forte although I don’t find it all that terrible to leave a place. What is difficult is leaving my two daughters with their own lives in a big city like New York. I remember my own journey when I was in my thirties, but now as their mother, it is a…
Read MoreLike Attracts Like: Recover from Shame and Insomnia
Shame can keep you hostage for a lifetime and you may not even know that you are fighting it. If what you are ashamed of is unaddressed, it blocks your potential for becoming the best you that you can be. One of the Laws of Attraction is that like attracts like: where shame was shame…
Read MoreIs Insomnia a Curse or a Blessing in Disguise?
Insomnia interferes with a lot in your life, but it is also a great way to get to know yourself (as I experienced). As such it is a blessing disguised as a curse. I have a long history of “Lack of Sense of Self.” I had over 20 years of insomnia, and in time thankfully…
Read MoreInsomnia, a curse or a blessing in disguise?
Insomnia interferes with a lot in your life, but it is also a great way to get to know yourself (as I experienced). As such it is a blessing disguised as a curse. I have a long history of “Lack of Sense of Self.” I had over 20 years of insomnia, and in time thankfully…
Read MoreHealthy Sense of Self and Jet Lag – from Mumbai with Love!
What a Healthy Sense of Self can do for suffering less from jet lag…? If you are not dependent for your Sense of Self on how many or how few problems you create for your partner you do not have to be fearful that you do; not being fearful means having a lot more peace…
Read MoreInvisible motivator
I caught myself – it was only a split second – but I caught myself thinking- or was it a feeling?- yes almost a feeling. It was such an internalized thought that it was almost a feeling…I caught myself feel-thinking, somewhere in the back of my head, almost unnoticeable but I did notice it because…
Read MoreThought of the Day, June 21th, 2012
Survival in a lion cub is an instinct that he blindly follows using all his power and flexibility to not end up as a prey to other predators in the food chain we are all part of. What makes us human beings believe that we can do with less? Imagine you would put all that jungle power behind…
Read MoreThe Magic Formula for healing various kinds of ailments and dysfunction
Do you remember how it used to be in the olden days? Walking from one doctor’s office to the next to find a cure for your condition – going through the routines of describing your medical history to yet the next counselor – trying yet another medication … For a brief moment you think that…
Read MoreOn Going to Bed at Night…
The moment of deciding to go to bed at night brings about mixed feelings for me. On the one hand I’m looking forward to throwing off my day clothes that are filled with the vibes of work and sneaking into the fresh clean sheets to let my mind dissolve into the black nothingness of the…
Read MoreBuilding Champions
(This blog was written on the 15th of December 2011 in response to an article in USAToday, ‘Building Champions’. The paper was of that day.) I can’t emphasize enough the importance of having a Healthy Sense of Self in reaching the top level in athletics. Practice (and training) makes perfect; but over-training leads to compulsion, which in the…
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