This week more and more data and details about the pandemic have been directed at us. How does all that information affect us? How does it impact our emotions? And most importantly, where does it all go? Most of it, according to popular thinking, is stored in the left-brain hemisphere.… Read More »Our Emotions on a Roller Coaster
It has been hard for me to practice mindfulness and reach a state of calm during these past few months of Covid 19. Judging from the statistics we see about depression, drug overdoses, suicides, and other psychological challenges, many people feel the same. Some of us feel we are living… Read More »Mindfulness-And Finding Your Calm
“Some days in late August are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.”―William Faulkner “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”… Read More »Autumn Nostalgia—When Even Happy Memories Can Make Me Sad
On some days, even perfect ones like today, when everything is fine in my world, I’ve been known to suddenly experience what I can only describe as a bad mood. I don’t obsess about it, or even question it. A wave of sadness appears out of nowhere, and usually, if… Read More »Why a Bad Mood May be Good for You
We are experiencing a change of seasons here in the Pacific North West. A few mornings ago, I saw the first sign, a covering of dew on grass that has been as dry as dust for five months. It’s a welcome change for the earth, since the trees and gardens… Read More »Love It or Hate It—A Change of Seasons is Here
It’s been a tough year. Tough on the world, and tough on our emotions. Like me, you may have been waking up each morning, with an unsettled feeling that things are not quite right. The news is all around you—you know what has been going on and you can’t escape… Read More »Our Emotions in Turmoil in a Tough Time
It appears that we older people are the happiest generation in history. Study after study says that we are. Our aging faces may not reflect this, but it’s true—we older people are considerably happier than younger people and certainly happier than people who are middle-aged. It seems that when it comes to the… Read More »The Happiest People on the Planet
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