New Years Resolutions and NeuroGym

For the faithful reader, this little note: I am taking a step back from blog writing. There are more than 400 of them now, and many are ready for a new coat—a new, updated version. It’s not because I don’t want to write anymore, but because I need to use my available time more productively.…

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Sense of Self and Clear Objectives

People with a Healthy Sense of Self have innumerable advantages; the art of setting clear objectives is one of them. If you don’t have to spend a lot of time and energy finding your Self, you have lots of spare time, attention, and energy to fine tune the issues in your life. That pays off.…

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Happy 4th of July Weekend!

Be a hero…be your self!

“Not everyone can be a hero!” That is why being a hero is so special. Saving a person from a burning house requires an instant decision – helping an old lady cross a street with crazy traffic and no lights happens at the spur of the moment. Being a hero is not something you can…

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Say “yes” to your temper and a Healthy Sense of Self

Editor’s Note: There are many ways to describe a healthy Sense of Self and how it might self-express. HySoS strives to get more people thinking about the question: Do they live life with a Healthy Sense of Self. Barb Abelhauser who writes a daily blog “The View from a Drawbridge” offers an interesting twist on…

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New Year’s Eve: Looking back and ahead

The year is almost done; you clean your desk and prepare for the last holiday of the calendar year. Sometime during that last week there is always that moment of reflection, of what was and how it could be; the mistakes you don’t want to make in the coming year, the bad habits you want…

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Anxiety and the holidays: 13 ways to cope.

Dear Author of this blog post: Thank you for a thoughtful, well-paced, and compassionate post: Lots of insights. Lots of wisdom. I appreciate your discernment too. “Remember that part of their personality is the anxiety. Remember that part of them, the compilation of life experiences that they are made of, is the anxiety. It can…

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The Path to Love leads us home to our Self

In a matter of days, I will be off to Colorado for a week long retreat that will test me to the core.  A retreat that I am looking forward to–completely. I find myself growing excited (not anxious) as I leave for a much anticipated vacation to an exotic place.  This exotic place though is…

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New Series: Letters to my Younger Self

Editor’s Note: For some time now I have been hearing voices in my head. :) Voices that are a quiet dialogue between the different parts of me. The voice of wisdom gained is talking to the young one that forever lives in memory. No matter our age there is a young child that lives within.…

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Student Meditation

Meditation In School Could Mean Big Changes

At New York City’s Brooklyn Urban Garden School (BUGS) students can often be found starting and end the day with about 15 minutes of doing absolutely nothing. Nothing besides mindfully meditating, that is. The Huffington Post recently wrote about how the school implements meditation in it’s classrooms, and how that meditation seems to be making…

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Holiday Season Stress

Christmas and The Holidays – Merry or Scary?

Happy Holidays! We wish each other the best – for clearly nobody has bad intentions. We look forward to seeing our family members and relatives again. We are adamant that this time around it is going to be a great Christmas. We have a present for everyone and “that awesome gadget you found for Uncle…

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