We are material and finite beings. We have survival needs: Basic: breathe, drink, eat, sex Emotional: fight, flight, freeze Human: appreciation, awareness, action We live in a material and finite world. We experience constant change, disequilibrium, internal and external. We learn our needs can be satisfied by material and finite sources: biology, psychology, sociology, and [...]

The good thing about having an author write a column or an article is that you hear about a new book before the book is published; in my case, I’m talking about The Happy Heretic. It is the result of my spiritual awakening that happened years ago when I realized that everything I was told [...]

This certainly isn’t the first article to be written during the Christmas season, whereby the author attempts to realign the reader’s vision of the holiday with its true roots. I could talk (as many before me have) about love, family, sharing, togetherness, selflessness; I could talk about Jesus’ birth and all the Christian beliefs and [...]

March 13, 1993: In the darkness of my bedroom I could hear my phone ringing. I reached for my glasses and stared at the clock. It was just after 7 a.m., but somehow it seemed so dark in the room. I grabbed the phone and answered in my most professional voice. In response came a [...]

By Larry Smith, CAS “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts [...]

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, Ph.D.,TEP, MFA The gratitude visit (Seligman, Steen and Peterson, 2005) is one of the best-known and most-quoted of the positive psychology interventions. The intervention is simple: people are asked to deliver a letter of gratitude to a person who had been particularly kind to them, but whom they never properly thanked. [...]

Compassion is a foundational healing modality recovering addicts must learn. Using my book, The Craft of Compassion (Hand to Hand Publications, 2010), as the curriculum, I had the honor to work with Brandon Beckman teaching addicts and their families at L.A. Family Housing in North Hollywood. We guided them through the exploration of self-esteem via [...]