Live Conscious Blog
How To Fall Back In Love
On eHow’s ‘tips from people like you’, Terri R writes an interesting article giving 6 useful instructions to consider in order for couples to fall back in love. Great stuff, but much of what is suggested can be easier said than done. I believe the...
Marriage Problems: Why Couples Fight – Psychology Today
Steven Stosny points out in his “Why Couples Fight” article, that people don’t really fight about the things we think they fight about but, rather, they fight when they believe their partner does not care about what they feel and about “the...
Five Ways to Kick the Jealousy Habit: Psychology Today
In Psychology Today, Craig Malkin, Ph.D. has written a very helpful article, “Five Ways to Kick the Jealousy Habit.” I recommend it for both the jealousee and the jealouser. In addition to suggesting five things you can do to help yourself deal with...
Can a Tree Consciously Experience the World? Robert Lanza, M.D. – The Huffinton Post
I do love Robert Lanza’s article on the consciousness of a tree. Ever since “The Secret Life of Plants”, by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, came out in 1973, I was almost as concerned about eating plants as l was animals! Plants actually know...
Negative Core Beliefs
In Live Conscious we’ve developed a model of Human Development. As part of this model, we’ve identified four core patterns that develop to varying degrees early in life. The four patterns represent what we do within ourselves when we experience too much stress in our...
The American Nightmare: Psychology Today – Happiness
Lauren Sandler proposes the question in Psychology Today : “Why are we not happy even if we have everything the American Dream prescribed?” She cites surveys that are revealing that we, “have grown continuously more depressed over the last...
Sex and the Long-Term Relationship: New York Times
The basic drift of an article in the NY Times is that many men and woman, according to the findings of a recent study, are disappointed with the lack of sex in their relationships. And this was attributed to too many “other tasks and obligations competing for a...
Ben Kingsley on Portraying Holocaust History: NPR Interview
Give yourself a treat—it will take less than 10 minutes out of your day—and listen to Sir Ben Kingsley being interviewed by NPR’s Scott Simon in front of an audience at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Kingsley has played a range of Holocaust-related...
The Importance Of Sadness: Susan Piver, The Huffington Post
Susan Piver writes in The Huffington Post that allowing yourself to feel sad when you are sad could change the world. “When you look out at this world, what you see will make you very, very sad. This is good. You are seeing clearly. Genuine sadness gives rise,...
How Couples Recover After an Argument Stems From Their Infant Relationships: ScienceDaily
The ScienceDaily staff wrote a short article, adapted from materials provided by the Association for Psychological Science, with the title, “How couples recover after an argument stems from their infant relationships.” We think this contains some valuable...
Expressing Mindful Love Through Service: Huffington Post
“Expressing Mindful Love Through Service”, a recent article in The Huffington Post, by Ronald Alexander PhD, reminds us that with our conscious service to others, we can improve the quality of our own lives and our relationships. On this upcoming Valentine’s Day...
Sensing Ourselves at Maya Tulum
On the seventh morning, of our Maya Tulum retreat we greet ourselves with a most remarkable sunrise… as Mayan zen-like monks rake the powder-fine white sand beach…seemingly just raking as they rake. The turquoise water is the clearest and gentlest since we...