I am almost finished reading a stunning memoir entitled Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani. As the title suggests, it’s about a near-death experience (NDE) the author had after fighting cancer for four years. No spoiler alert needed—she clearly lived to tell the tale.
Between new shows (like The Agency), my husband and I often revisit old series we enjoyed but haven’t seen in awhile. Recently, we returned to Get Shorty, a dark comedy about Miles, a hitman-turned-Hollywood-producer.
In a recent meditation training on empathic communication, Tara Brach shared a humorous story about Franklin D. Roosevelt. During a long receiving line at a White House event, FDR, suspecting most guests weren’t truly listening, decided to test his theory.
It’s the time of year when we are confronted with the pressure to be cheerful. No matter what you celebrate (or don’t), the onslaught of holiday décor, songs, recipes, gift-exchange rituals, holiday parties has begun!
For my entire academic and professional life I have been fascinated with psychological safety. Research on high-performing teams, including my own, shows it is a key driver of team learning.
For some time I’ve been hearing about how Chat GPT can streamline writing tasks, learning your style and becoming a kind of editorial assistant. For someone who writes a lot, this intrigued me. But I was wary.
Right now, I’m suffering from a condition that seems highly prevalent in the U.S.: Election Derangement Syndrome (EDS). The symptoms? An obsessive focus on political news, polls, and predictions to the exclusion of almost everything else.
I’ve been getting messages lately to lighten up, loosen up, laugh a bit more, not be quite so serious. The Universe deputized a few sources (whether they know it or not) to deliver these messages. First, my partner: “Your Sunday Shares are great but you could use a little more humor.”
We all have tendencies to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. In mindfulness, we learn about the 5 Hindrances, including craving after or clinging to those things we desire and want more of, and aversion, pushing away those things we don’t, often what’s unpleasant or stressful.
We teach what we need to learn. So as part of an upcoming Fall Mindfulness Series, I have been working on a class focused on the Liberation of Letting Go. Ha! Easier said than done. Granted, there are things that have been easy, even fun, to let go of.