Meditation: A Tool For Happiness or An Exercise in Frustration?

park bench meditation

3 Great Tips to Turn Your Meditation into a Rewarding Experience!   When I first started meditating several years ago, it was anything but fulfilling!  I would make time in my calendar, sit down and “try” to meditate.  I would get uncomfortable trying to hold the same still position, my mind would be full of thoughts and chatter, and I would feel frustrated and unfulfilled when it … [Read more...]

Is Laughter the Best Medicine?

laughing

  Today I enjoyed a wonderful You-Tube video with a group of people staging a ‘laugh-in’ on the subway. It is a wonderful illustration of how laughter is contagious!  To watch it, click HERE.   One of the joys of participating in and teaching Laughter Yoga is that I’ve experienced first hand that laughter, whether purposefully generated or in response to something we see or … [Read more...]

White is for Summer…and Other Rules of Engagement

White Ensemble

I was going to a birthday brunch on Sunday and was trying to figure out what to wear. I started my latest edition of the "personal fashion show" - trying on ensemble options to see how they looked -- and I found this pretty combination of white skirt with irredescent sequins on it and a white cropped sweater with a deep purple tank underneath.  I thought I'd cap it of with a red/white/purple … [Read more...]

Wisdom and Success from the Red Carpet

Success Red Carpet

I'm being interviewed on the red carpet again!  This time, it's at CEO Space, a free enterprise forum featuring training and collaboration to help build thriving businesses around the world.  Join my friends, producers of "THE STRIP VIEW LIVE!" television show, Maria Ngo and Ray DuGray, as they host a daily webcast.  It's FREE, live, and global!  The show features up-close and … [Read more...]

A Bird in Hand

Bird in Hand

  As I engage in spiritual transformation discussions with my clients, workshop participants, and members of my Heartful Awakening Circle online community (www.HeartfulAwakenings.com) who are making choices to have more of what they want in their lives, I am noticing a trend.  It’s one that feels prudent and wise on the surface, but detrimental when you get to the ‘deepest intent’ that … [Read more...]