Often, I hear narratives riddled with anxious features. People getting lost in the worry and what if and missing the fine line with anxious worry: either one can do something about it and thus there is no need to worry one just has to take action or two there is not anything that can be done and one simply has to let go, (do not fall into the control trap). So, it seemed to be a good time for a reminder of some of the things that one can do nothing to change – we can take these items off the...

Why Does Time Feel as If It is Speeding up?                 It seems almost cliché and most of us can attest that time feels as if to pass faster and faster each year. As another month is comes to a close, many of my clients described this a bewildering experience, thus I thought it would be fun to share the theories for why this happens. There is a bit more science to it than mystery. First, there is a novel memory hypothesis which describes that as we are younger we are consistently coming...

When we get to caught up in earthly desires – the material world and the ego, we can open the door to increased suffering. We become attached to certain things that almost surely end with our suffering. The first step is awareness in which you are currently mentally entangled with. There are seven kinds of unhelpful attachments to look out for in your own life: 1.      Attachment to stuff – the material goods, and thus one will suffer when the “stuff” is not in their life in a sufficient...