Essays
Apple TV’s Series Foundation: A Portal to the Healing Power of Awe | Part 2: Awe on Demand
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the awe-inspiring title sequence from Apple TV’s sci-fi series, Foundation. Today, I’ll precisely define awe, outline its benefits and teach you how to generate Awe Experiences on demand. “Awe is defined as the emotion we feel in response to something...
Awe Injection via Powerful Women: Channeling Athletes to Generate Awe
As I declared last week, awe is easy to generate, readily available, and a viable mental health intervention that can be self-administered. It is also the most underrated and unacknowledged happiness emotion. Next week, we’ll get into the nitty-gritty of self-generated awe, but today I want to...
Apple TV’s Series Foundation: A Portal to the Healing Power of Awe
Part 1: High on Awe (Watch this first: https://youtu.be/VkV2nx6fRTA) I’ve been bitten by a bug. It looks a lot like love and, like love, this has turned me into a bit of a crazy person (assuming that watching the same video dozens of times is … well … a bit off). But it isn’t love. It’s AWE. Like...
Mindfulness Methods 101: The Muddle & the Meaning
(Note: This is part one of a multi-part series. Today, I’ll be noting my concerns about mindfulness meditation and clarifying what mindfulness is and is not. Stay tuned for parts two through four, all of which work fine at stand-alone reads.) I’ve been meditating for nearly thirty years and I’m a...
Uncertainty and the Choice to Change
“Everything will be ok in the end. And if it’s not ok. It’s not the end.”– John Lennon Change…it never stops throwing us curveballs and rattling our plans. And change is inherently imbued with uncertainty. We’re often told to embrace uncertainty or at least not to fight it. But that’s only...
Change, Gratitude, & the Meaning of Life
Over the years, I’ve attended so many meditation retreats, I’ve lost count. But I’ll never forget the one from which I just returned – the most moving and meaningful of my life. The fact that this was so impactful is striking. I spend a lot of time decrying the woes of the western meditation...