Hindsight and Foresight (Nov 2011)
The end of the year provides an opportunity to reflect on what has been and to plan for what will be. Mindful awareness offers the opportunity to skillfully strengthen the hindsight and foresight that permeate our consciousness during times of transition, like the movement from one year to the next. Mindfulness is a key component to balancing intellectual knowledge with emotional wisdom in order to maximize our potential and manifest a future that translates dreams into reality.

A Time of Appreciation (Oct 2011)
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate the blessings with which we are surrounded. Not to diminish the importance of this holiday, but isn’t it strange that we don’t have regular celebrations to acknowledge the amazing privilege of being alive? Instead of coffee breaks, would appreciation breaks be more effective? If we all spent a part of each day appreciating our families, nature, the progress of science, the wonder of human birth, or simply the fact that we can think and learn, how would this affect our relationship to ourselves, as well as one another?

Is Dignity an EQ Element? (Sept 2011)
In an article written for USA Today on July 21st by Jonathan Shorman, “Canadian researchers found that terminally ill patients reported higher quality of life and a greater will to live after participating in “dignity therapy.” This prompted our own research into dignity and whether or not it could be considered an EQ element. Here is what we learned.

Baboons Continue to Teach. But Do We Learn? (August 2011)
If you have seen the 2008 National Geographic Video entitled “STRESS: POTRAIT OF A KILLER,” you learned that the Kikarock Troupe studied by renowned Stanford University Professor Dr. Robert Sapolsky did in fact have a lesson for us.

EQ, Connections & Shine (July 2011)
When self-aware, self-regulated, motivated, empathic and socially aware leaders “connect” with their followers they turn really good teams into really great teams. And what America needs today from every leader is greatness.

Leveraging Your Strengths (June 2011)
As many of our readers know, we favor memories of “flow” as a way to clarify our interests, working style and motivational needs. Flow memories recall times when we were so engaged in tasks that we lost all track of clock time and entered a state of “timeless time.”

Wisdom Applied to Reduce Animal Suffering (May 2011)
Reducing the pain of animals, human or otherwise, will require daily practice of empathic caring on a global scale, as well as sophisticated problem solving action in socio-economic-political arenas.

UCLA Study on Friendship Among Women (April 2011)
Friends are also helping us live better. The famed Nurses’ Health Study from Harvard Medical School found that the more friends women had, the less likely they were to develop physical impairments as they aged, and the more likely they were to be leading a joyful life. In fact, the results were so significant, the researchers concluded, that not having close friends or confidantes was as detrimental to your health as smoking or carrying extra weight!

Reducing Stress Through Wisdom Therapy & Emotional Intelligence (March 2011)
Wisdom Therapy and Emotional Intelligence training are ways of using empirically validated psychological science to effectively promote one’s development on several dimensions, and as a byproduct of that development, address chronic stress and its associated risks.

Telomere and Stress: A New Biological Super-Indicator (February 2011)
Researchers estimate that as many as 10 years can be deducted to the life span of these folks if a protracted period of time is spent in this care-giving mode. These children see their responsibility rather clearly but they are short on the knowledge as to how to mitigate this physiological damage. Sadly, there was no reference to the antidotes of exercise, deep belly breathing, positive mental imaging, that we now know are balancing agents to this dilemma.

10 New Years Resolutions for Your Retirement: Part II (January 2011)
Beginning right now, I will live every day to the fullest. I will strive to eliminate the things that are making me unhappy and maximize those which are making me satisfied and fulfilled. I will remember the words of the Indian dramatist, Kalidasa, who wrote: “Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”