Duke University,15 the Yale Child Study Center,16 the Seaver Center at Mount Sinai,17 the University of Pittsburgh, Baylor University, the University of Rochester, and a host of other research facilities have joined in the hunt as well. It is worth noting that many of the subjects of …

This lieutenant was so positive, in fact, that the king was often annoyed by his practice of constantly finding good in everything. One day while the king and the lieutenant were on a journey through the jungle, the king was chopping a fresh coconut for breakfast, and his machete slipped …

When we choose love, we bring the world closer to heaven. Fear makes the world hell. The choice is ours. More Love to Life I am fascinated by the ways that ordinary people bring more heart to life. Every encounter is an opportunity to create separation or joining. When we …

The DSM-IV-TR addresses this aspect of language use under the concepts of hyperactivity, as well as impulsivity (which we have already seen is linked to a deficit in executive function), and lists these symptoms: often talks excessively; Edward Hallowell and John Ratey confirm this idea in their article Driven to …

The major difference is primarily in the degree of severity. When examining the major characteristics of each disorder side-by-side and seeing that they are so closely related, the similarities become quite evident--but only after a person has been trained to see them. I once conducted an in-service training for teachers …

You learn as you do. If teachers had to wait until they knew everything to teach, there would be no teaching. We learn as we teach. And we master as we live. Another antidote to regret is to understand that missed opportunities will come again. Opportunities show up because our …

From Nowhere to Now Here I'm sorry sir; I couldn't I believe I was hearing the hotel clerk utter the frequent traveller's most dreaded greeting. I turned to the sponsor of the program I had come to present Upset, she engaged the clerk in a polite but thinly-veiled argument over …

Indeed the effects of her service span far beyond one lifetime. If we wish to soar beyond age, it is very helpful to observe people who are empowered, not limited by their physical years. In her ninth decade, my friend Tensie is more vibrant and alive than most people in …

Viewing the patient as a colleague and therapy as a collaboration would, I believe, greatly improve the quality of the patient-doctor relationship. Watch a spider weave her web. Wonder at the beauty of small things around you that aren't manmade. Sit quietly by a river, stream, waterfall, or the sea …

This would definitely make it difficult to slip away for a few minutes to recharge your mental batteries. Also they don't take into account your emotions. It was terribly upsetting giving birth to our baby with all these problems. We felt exhausted, betrayed, and grieved her death. You can't hear …

Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! A fourth-generation physician in an old New York family with an illustrious medical tradition, Ben is quick to describe himself as a cynic: Yeah, I'm cynical about medicine. How can you not be? The medical-legal crisis makes all of us run scared--not …

Include inspiring quotes that motivate you and lift your spirits. When you're truthful with yourself, when you don't make excuses or try to rationalize your failure to adhere to something, you develop a solid foundation, a personality founded on honor, self-respect, and truth. Most people don't have that. They make …

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. That is the stage of the novice. What the master practitioner (and the accomplished family member) has learned is how to improvise from those copies, how to move beyond stereotyping and caricaturing, with all the dangers …

Specify what you want to watch on TV and why. Dr Samuels's colleagues are unanimous in their praise of his commitment to and work with patients. He is your old fashioned doc, all right. His life is devoted to practice. He works hard to hone his skills. He spends more …

CAREER AND PERSONAL BLOCKS: If you feel blocked in your life or career, ask for this imbalance to show up in your body. What would this block look like? What is preventing you from being in a career you feel called to or would enjoy? Move to the resistance and …

She reached her counselor and said, I hired a painter, and he tells me that he has Branden's kidney. How can we be sure? He said, Wow, the odds of that occurring would be almost impossible, but give me his name. Gail asked Ken his full name and gave it …

I felt a desperate desire to save him--a danger sign in therapy. I could affirm his suffering but not his fierce self-punishment, which I insisted had to cease. Near the end of the year, I realized he was having difficulty telling me that he had begun again to exact his …

His intuition could then help guide him that much more closely to a match for his desires. What if you are trying to follow your intuition, but you can't figure out what it is? What gets in the way of clearly feeling the resonance of your inner guidance system? A …

That's not how it used to go. When humans were farmers and hunters and little else, what we had to do during the day was typically singular, it was routine. We had to harvest or milk the cattle or butcher the animal or feed the animals. We had to fix …

It made him realize that he was still engaged in negative thinking--this discovery was one of the many gifts the relationship gave him. He got to see things differently and shine a light on some of his issues. His partner's response was a reflection not of the wound, but of …

Ads that said, You could be enough, if only you could be seen driving this kind of car, wearing these kinds of clothes, living in this kind of house, hanging out with these kinds of people. If only you belonged. It took me a long time to realize that I …

Both people think that the other has a problem and is handling it wrong. But in a very real sense, each one is perfect for the other in that moment, in that relationship. Aloof and Needy Another example of a dance we do with each other is known as Aloof …

Sending and receiving the molecules of energy that you want more of in your life call you to be mindful of yourself in your current situation. You can be aware of your reactions, perceptions, and beliefs in the moment, so that you can be intentional with the feelings you choose …

This instinct is similar in everyone. Have you ever noticed how babies and young children will sniff things and people? They are doing this to identify not only their caregivers but also who is safe and who is dangerous. I remember when my daughter was very young, she'd purposefully sniff …

But since mindfulness encourages meditation and freeing the mind from worries that lead to depression, these mental disorders can successfully be eliminated allowing you to live a happier life. To banish communication gaps. Communication gaps are usually the main causes of misunderstandings, etc but mindfulness is a state that is …

She is clueless. This automatic blame mode may appear to keep your power within yourself because you are valuing your own viewpoint over the other person's. But it is really giving away your power. You are shifting the focus from your personal power to create what you want to happen …

The microcosmic and macrocosmic orbit of Taoist meditation practices, the inner tree emerging along the spine from creative visualization practices, and many other spiritual practices and methods of seeing the body beyond its physical form all point to the significance of the midline and it being the base of our …

The side effects of weakness and exhaustion frightened Alice Alcott even more than the chest pain. That was when I began to see how terrible it would be to be incapacitated--to give up even the semblance of my independence, my control, my role in the family and in the community …

It could be a tree, flower, rock, cartoon character, geometric pattern, light, or blob. Trust whatever comes through to you when you ask to see or sense your body deva. In time this image may change, but there should be an inner sense of the body deva appearing and seeming …

But nothing about that night ended up being normal. We were at a magicians' conference, a sort of underground gathering of those fascinated by the art of magic and illusion. His name was Bill, or Reverend Baker, as everyone called him, and he was one of my magic mentors. In …

It means that our thinking shapes our experience of the loss. She continued, David, since you say we each experience grief differently, let's explore why. I told Louise about my friend whose husband had died suddenly from a brain bleed. But Louise surprised me when she didn't ask about the …

From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media has chronicled the lives of people with DID. Is this because of the controversy surrounding the diagnosis or because of the sensationalism associated with the individual stories? Whatever the motivation, one thing is sure: the public continues to gravitate toward the …

Had we adopted the ruthless, freeing discipline you'll read about in this article, we'd already be living our ideal life and living as the men we want to become. To add to that, if we don't develop this discipline now, we'll end our lives with regret grasping our souls like …

Many of us simply do not have the tools to access this resource, known in this article as the body deva. There is a difference between healing and curing. Healing is something that will arise from utilizing the tools within this article, but healing is different from being cured. So …

This article will accomplish a few things for both sorts of people: You'll get a deeper understanding of the importance of discipline in new ways and different areas of your life, and an idea of why--if you have any ambition at all--discipline must be at the core of who you …

Yet, in other cases, the physician diagnoses and treats elevated blood sugar that requires increased insulin, pain of uncertain origin that calls for diagnostic testing, or major depressive disorder that needs treatment with antidepressants. The healer--whether a neurosurgeon or a family doctor, a chiropractor or the latest breed of psychotherapist--interprets …