The FLOW Experience

Hungarian positive psychologist, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, right, is recognized for his study of happiness and creativity. He developed and mapped the concept of flow and defined it as a feeling of “being in the zone” - a state of complete absorption, mental concentration and immersion with the activity and situation at hand. Read More … [Read more...]

Where are You Looking for Happiness?

The key to happiness is to give yourself permission to experience it…to simply be your happy self. Instead of allowing ourselves to be happy, we get busy seeking it out, judging that we have to first deserve or earn the right to be happy and so, we often end up looking for happiness in all the wrong places. For some reason, it seems, we’ve come … [Read more...]

Transcendence: Key to Transformation

It’s the dramas in life, the story we tell ourselves and each other that get us entangled and stuck. A conflict, whether with yourself or another, is a variation on this theme. It’s an entanglement. Some people, addicted to drama, seek out conflict. It feeds their passion and makes them feel alive and strong. Others like conflict especially if they … [Read more...]

What’s Wrong With Christmas Gift Giving?

The commercialization of the Christmas gift giving tradition revs people up into a buying frenzy, leaving them overspent and exhausted. Seasonal marketing messages designed to attract buyers and increase sales, employ psychological insight to leverage personal insecurities and low self-esteem for corporate gain. The resulting impact has … [Read more...]

Awakening to Choice is Self-Empowering

Awakening to Choice is a beautiful piece of anonymous prose I received from a friend and share it here with you. It's inspirational in its wisdom and resonates with the shifts in perspective many of my coaching clients tell me they experience. The piece gives expression to the process of awakening and accepting responsibility for choice, that's at … [Read more...]