Shhhh… The Importance of Silence
The Jews are known for asking a lot of questions. In fact, it is said that Einstein’s mother didn’t ever ask her son if he learned something in school that day, but rather did he ask good questions. Asking questions is a lesson in itself – learning how to ask questions is a great practice. ...
Gratitude
Gratitude is becoming one of those ubiquitous “yoga-words” that has worked its way into the common vernacular. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s just that sometimes when we find ourselves using a word over and over, tossing it out in multiple situations and many times a day, it tends to lose its meaning. ...
The Power of Speaking in the Present
One of the practices of the dream work I teach is to write your dreams in present tense, and speak to them in the present tense. We also open dreams in the present tense. The reason we work with dreams in the present tense is because dreams are happening right now. To put something in ...
How to Remember Your Dreams
I work with clients teaching them how to understand the language of their night dreams, and the messages the dreams have for them. We do this through a process called dream opening. But the first step in opening dreams is to remember your dreams! I’m asked a lot how one can remember their dreams, and ...
The Decision Age
I just did a book exchange with my neighbor. I had just finished reading Collapse, by Jared Diamond and traded it for what he just finished reading, Straw Dogs by John Gray. As we each exclaimed over the amazing insights we got from our books and why the other just had to read it I ...
Begin Again: A Lesson from the High HolyDays
The Jewish High HolyDays have wrapped. They started with the New Year, Rosh Hashanah, followed by Yom Kippur, the Atoning. They concluded with the festival of Sukot, and finally the celebration of Simchat Torah. Each of these offers us unending insights. Together, they also give us a lesson in their sequence. The first is Rosh ...
We Are Our Images (Pt. 2 of 2)
In the last post, Part 1 of the We are our Images 2-post series, I talked about how images are our body’s response to our environment. We take in the world we experience through our senses, forming images in our brain. These images are the language of all the information and understanding of our moving ...
We Are Our Images!
We are our Images! (Part I of 2) This 2-post series is a modified post that I wrote for my graduate students (Cognitive Psychology and the Visual Display of Information) this week to explain the role of imagery, and how that relates to story. This post is broken into two parts – the first is ...
Meaning of Life
Shana Tova – Happy New Year! It’s a new year for the Jewish calendar, and in this time of new beginnings it feels appropriate to be launching my blog and website anew. In that spirit the topic of this blog is a little lesson from the High Holy Days. Spoiler alert: The meaning of life ...