Why is traveling important? Mark Twain wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” With today’s political climate, we can’t …
The ability to experience emotions differs according to people. This depends on the balance that is created between our IQ (IQ) and the emotional coefficient (EC). How is this balance constructed? From birth we inherit from our parents an intelligence that is both intellectual and emotional. Then, the education we receive, the environment and the …
When I want to slow my mind, let go of a long day or seek more joy in my life, I step into the forest. Getting my feet on the dirt and letting the green of the trees and warmth of the sunlight wash over me, works every time. I always come out of the …
Our body reacts to all those feelings that we keep, that we do not say, that we shut up. What we do not say accumulates in the body, becomes insomnia, in knots in the throat, in nostalgia, in error, in debt, in dissatisfaction, in sadness. What we do not say does not die … it …
In life—in love and grief and all the moments in between—the best thing we can do is regularly affirm that we’re doing the best we can. But that’s a habit few of us develop until we desperately need it. Caring for ourselves can feel self-indulgent. Checking in with the body and mind, listening to what …