It’s been a little over a year since my last entry, announcing our intent to move to Spain. Since then, there has been a flurry of activity. We made our first exploratory trip to Spain in March, as planned. We met with realtors and relocation specialists all along the way. Turns out, research-loving nerds …
I began learning to write and read by learning alphabet. So did Shakespeare. I am not going to compare his skill of writing to mine, but it is obvious that we both started from A, B, C… If it is knitting, cooking or composing music one has to start from a very simple, basic level …
The past does not exist and neither the future. Whatever we experience is happening now in the present. We tell a story about what happened or what’s going to happen, but this story is being told now. What we take for the past are patches of feelings and thoughts stored in our nervous system. They …
It takes 21 days to create a habit and 60 days to create a lifestyle. Since everyone is making new year resolutions and setting goals for 2017 I decided this would be the perfect time to do my new web series all about motivating yourself to complete goals, start new hobbies or just generally making …
There is a lot of emphasis at this time of the year to get yourself together and make some New Year´s resolutions, but there is a time and place for everything. As mature women we know our downfalls, and we know exactly “what we have to change” or “what we have to put right” So …
I was not taught to indulge my wants. Contrary, I was taught to control them. There was something wrong with the very notion of having a desire. There was something frivolous and egoistic in it. The real virtue was in giving up and giving away or in working very, very hard hoping for a reward. …
At times like these, when the world is in turmoil, Brexit and Trump being just two of the many things happening right now, there is a human tendency to batten down the hatches, pull our head in like a tortoise in danger and wait until it’s normal again before we come back out and get …
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“To be or not to be?” is this really “the question”? I believe that it is rather “How to be happy?” question. And when we are that we don’t bother about being or not being, the answer becomes obvious. Yes, happiness-that’s what we want in life. The right to pursuit happiness is even written into …
When I talk about mindfulness and mention non-intellectual, non-thinking aspect of it I see some kind of panic and trepidation in people’s eyes. I see doubting and ridiculing the idea of existence without thinking. Our mind simply can’t imagine such a state as useful and honorable one. “Think!”-is an order we all here from early …
I don’t like making mistakes. But who does? I know that mistakes are important for me learning, developing and growing. I know that I can’t avoid them. They belong to life. I try to pacify them, using affirmations and wise sentences like: “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything” (by Edward …
