Thinking about making New Year Resolutions? You might consider making a commitment about how you want to be, besides what you want to do. Actually, it is reasonable to believe that we do things because of what we imagine we feel when we accomplish those deeds. The bad news is that we are deeply [...]
The Gift of Now
My first book, to be launched at the Gaudeamus Book Fair, in Bucharest Saturday, November 26, 2011, 14.00 hrs, Editura Herald. A book of words and images about attentive presence, mindful awareness, mind-stretching exercises, creativity in daily life, visual meditations and reflection for life enhancement.
Healthy Skepticism
We know we have the right to ask questions, but we exercise that right mostly by asking questions to others and expecting answers, solutions, explanations, excuses, justifications, advice. We seldom exercise that right with ourselves. When we do it, we neglect to take the time to listen to our deeper response. We are accustomed to [...]
Friends, Enemies, Strangers
In order to be able to get along in the world, we invented labels such as „friend” – the person I like and could help me, therefore I’m attached to him/her, „enemy” – the person I dislike and could harm me, therefore I feel aversion and I reject him/her, and „stranger” – the person [...]
The Flexible Mind
French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal said about man that he is „but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” When we consider man’s mind, we could say now that it probably is the most powerful thing in nature. However, this power can be exerted wisely only when [...]
Mintea Ne-limitata. O perspectiva.
O mare parte a timpului, in viata de zi cu zi, incercam sa construim, mai mult sau mai putin constient, strategii pentru a obtine ceea ce dorim si a ne feri de ceea ce ne displace. Fie ca e vorba de succes in cariera sau armonie in familie, mintea este preocupata sa gaseasca modalitati de [...]
Evolution, Buddhist Relics and Human Beings
From a macro-molecule millions of years ago, to the complex human beings we are now… Isn’t it fabulous? The countless lifetimes that we all have been through? Not as individualities, but as life breathing in and out, in different ways, in the bodies, and sometimes minds, of different sorts of beings. It seems that we [...]
Mind Your Mind
We are very much accustomed to “minding our steps” when we walk on the roads of life, whether we cross a street, get married or embark on a professional project. What we seldom do is “minding our mind” so as to be able to build a life for ourselves that involves reaching our full potential [...]
Self-Motivation for Optimal Performance (1)
What drives you to do your best work? A bonus, a better offce, a promotion, or… In a recent issue of ‘Scientific American’ I read a review of the book “Drive – The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us”, by bestselling author Daniel H. Pink. A former White House speechwriter, Daniel Pink has written on [...]
The Resonance Mind Trick
Recently, I heard myself saying to a friend, whom I very much admire, that I don’t resonate with his idea. I had the chance to feel the subtle taste of elegant disapproval, and that my mind was tricking me into believing that I was not judgemental towards my friend, but simply “not resonating” to what [...]
