The Awareness That Heals blog posts present curated articles that offer effective pointers and practices to help support yourself during times when challenging emotions and difficult feelings arise. Based on the principles in the book Awareness That Heals, these articles offer practical methods to help us move toward a state of greater emotional well-being—especially during problematic times. The good news is that these are challenges that can be faced and embraced, thereby giving us a unique opportunity for effective self-care and self-healing.
Increasing the minimum wage by $1 could reduce US suicide rates, study finds
This is a good article as far as it goes. Of course, how we handle our distribution of money and the work opportunities throughout our population is going to have an immeasurable impact on quality of life and homicides as well. Besides the denial of death, the denial of income inequality is a disease throughout …
Opinion: It’s Time To End The Colonial Mindset In Global Health
This is a great article with a long-term world perspective. How long will it take for America to see that it has built its brilliance on the backs of the American Indians and slaves? Unfortunately, this is how it’s been throughout history. This beginning insight is, for some, the inspiration to commit to a life …
Humility
This guided meditation crystallizes a healing path when we are feeling righteous, victimized, impatient and aggressive. Where are you most righteous, moralistic, antagonistic, or feeling like a victim in your life?
How to Take Care of Yourself During a Serious Illness
Psychotherapist Robert Strock discusses how to adapt to the new normal of a longterm illness, be the quarterback of your team of caretakers, and focus on the possible rather than dwell on the impossible.
The Future of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is only a starting point. We could analogize it to God or Faith. We can be devoted with a very dear part of ourselves, but the question is how much is this integrated into our life? We can go to church on Sundays, but not practice or express our faith during the week. We …
Iranian commander vows “harsher revenge” against U.S.
This is a message to those of us who don’t believe that the assassination of General Soleimani was a wise strategy even though we recognize that he was a murderous killer of Americans. The normal reaction is to criticize the Trump administration for not having a plan or clear strategy immediately in place. This is …
Volunteer Day with Skid Row Project
A 17-year-old tradition! A volunteer day with the Skid Row Project as we sorted and distributed 650 packages full of warm clothing, toys, and health care kits with friends of The Global Bridge Foundation. If you have a humanitarian project in the area of homelessness, climate change, or wealth inequality, please be in touch. We want to help …
Ram Dass, Spiritual Teacher And Psychedelics Pioneer, Dies At 88
We have all been blessed by Ram Dass’s simple heartfelt wisdom to give us such a leap in our evolution into our lives. His elegant living room style of living in all of our hearts as family has been contagious for a long time. Sending so much gratitude to his spirit and messages that he …
Don’t let Mitch McConnell conduct a Potemkin impeachment trial
There has never been an issue in American history in my lifetime or likely yours as well that is the effect of a cult-like mass psychological hypnotic trance. It is familiar in many misguided spiritual “Guruistic” communities. The ultimate one was how the German people believed blindly in Adolf Hitler. I am not trying to …
Greta Thunberg: TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year
This human being is telling it like it is in a way that no one I know of can duplicate. We need to soak it in. She has moved so many of us to tears with the truth of our sleepy, self-destructive way of living and that the values of our own lifestyle are dwarfing …