When you are feeling depressed, there are many things that you can do to help yourself feel better or to make yourself feel worse. I’ve…
Category: Negative Moods & Emotions
In my previous post, I discussed the importance of accepting the fact that an inescapable reality of life is that we suffer. I am not…
The first of the “Four Noble Truths” of Buddhism is that “Life is Suffering.” I always thought that “life is suffering” sounded so pessimistic. Sure,…
I’m not a Buddhist, but I like a lot of the Buddhist philosophy that I’ve read. One approach that stays with me, funny enough, was…
I have one son who is almost 4 years old and another son who is almost 6 months. Sleep can be a hard-sought luxury, and…
Like everyone, I was both shocked and saddened by the mass murder that took place recently at Virginia Tech. My thoughts and prayers go out…
We all make this mistake sometimes…our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and we end up eating much more than we should have. With aching…
So often in life we are great at identifying shortcomings, faults, missed opportunities, and other annoyances. The effect of dwelling on such things can be…
I had a previous post about the importance of sleep, so I wanted to add this interesting bit of information that I ran across in…
Although I’m not a Buddhist, in recent years I’ve become a big fan of the Dalai Lama. His book, The Art of Happiness is one…