Live the Life You've Always Dreamed of!
Introduction In the not-so-distant past, my wife abruptly decided to divorce me after 14 years’ of marriage. I was devastated, and soon afterward began experiencing extremely painful suicidal episodes. As a young child, I was brought up as a Christian…
Once again, abortion has become a hot topic in the United States. As usual, we have only the two extremes being expressed publicly. The conservative are against abortion for moral reasons, while the progressives view abortion limits as a restriction…
In holistic medicine, there is an emphasis on treating the condition instead of the symptoms of the condition. This makes sense, as it guarantees a permanent cure for the health condition in question. Put another way: if a condition has…
In today’s society, we look up to people with money. We call them “successful”. And we do this with the full knowledge that money cannot buy happiness. We know that the wealthy are no happier than anyone else. Yet we…
Religions throughout the ages have tended to have a dysfunctional relationship with pleasure. In most religions (especially Eastern traditions), there is the concept of the ascetic. The ascetic recants all material possessions and pleasure in order to seek enlightenment. Additionally,…
Each moment of our lives, we have a choice about how to think, act or react to the current situation. Sometimes, the choices we face seem trivial. At other times, we come up against a decision of such importance that…
One of the more confusing aspects of psychological and spiritual literature is the terms used to describe the various aspects of the self. We hear about the inner child, the ego, and higher self, and the lower self. Some of…
In 1885, Doctor Pepper was invented in America, followed by Coca-Cola in 1886 and Pepsi-Cola in 1898. As the consumption of sodas started to increase over the next few decades, so did the rates of obesity, diabetes, and other related…
In today’s society, we commonly mistake depression and anxiety as mental disorders. In doing so, we prevent ourselves from correctly addressing these issues. Unlike mental diseases such as autism and amnesia, the disorders that cause emotional suffering such as depression…
I first learned about the idea of pranic living about 10 years ago in an article I came across on the Internet. The article was an interview with a young man in Russia who claimed he hadn’t eaten in four…