Blog Topic: Weight
Pope Francis's Ten Happiness Tips
Compassion is a skill that can be learned, practiced and cultivated. However it is not new. Compassion has always been a essential component of major religions. Pope Francis offers us simple compassionate advice on 'how to be happy.' Live and let live Be giving of...
Service
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service I acted and behold, service was joy" ~Rabindranath Tagore
The Poetics of Food
Of course, it is valuable to eat healthy food. But often the focus on nutrients and numbers, calories and carbohydrates goes so far away from the pleasure of food. It is so important to include pleasure in our life. Pleasure heals. Even when we are suffering with...
Self-Compassion and Health
People with a high level of self-compassion tend to treat themselves kindly. That is, they do not get down on themselves for having an illness. They also frequently remind themselves that many people have health problems and that they do not deserve to be sick. The...
Hand to the Heart
Self compassion is essentially treating yourself with the same kindness as you would a friend. People who practice self compassion avoid criticizing themselves harshly and negatively. Research also shows that this gentle, nonjudgmental approach helps people bounce...
Unhelpful Thinking Habits
Unhelpful Thinking Habits
Read more“If there were only two things in the world, mind and body, but no soul, then the mind would not be involved with the body, because it is fixed and emotionless and very distant from physical life. Nor would the body have anything to do with the mind, because by itself it is inept and powerless. It is also far removed from the mind. But if soul is placed between these two, adjusted to the nature of each, then one would easily become involved with the other.”
~Marsilio Ficino Book of Life
Balancing Spirit and Soul
According to Thomas Moore, people struggling with disordered eating behaviours often have an imbalance between spirituality and soul - an over focus on spirituality and an under focus on soul. Spirit is big and looks forward and upward. Spiritual people like to...
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is not about making your thoughts, worries or feelings stop. Mindfulness is learning to notice thoughts, feelings and sensations that arise, understanding that they are not you, watching them come and go.
Common Humanity
Everyone is going to experience negative events in their lives. People try a new venture and fail. They get sick or injured. They get in relationships that ultimately break up. They have loved-ones who get sick or die. Nobody can escape the bad things that happen in...
Mental Rehearsal
Feelings can seem so overwhelming at times it is difficult to think that we can change them. But we can. Many studies have shown that just spending five minutes a day thinking about something positive can shift the neural circuits in the brain. Daily practice of...