Why express gratitude before eating? And to what? To a transcendent godhead somewhere "out of this world?" Or to the Earth?

Happy people seem to live longer, more fruitful lives. Can a sense of thankfulness in advance prepare the way for true happiness without living in denial?

As more and more of us leave the mainstream to take up heart-centered, but much less secure efforts to heal our world--what does self-care look like in a time of such great change?

What powers the body is a very slow fire. We take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide just like the flames you sit around camping out at night.

In almost all languages and cultures, there's this connection between breath and something spiritual or magical.

Something’s happened to us all in the last bit of time. We don’t notice it, but in terms of staying well and happy, it’s hurting us badly.

You’re starting an exciting project. You have all the resources. But you seem to have reached an impasse.

Singing, dancing, playing music and drumming together with friends and family foster a sense of renewed energy, warmth and community, magic and hope.

Yesterday I seemed to see and feel one of the great tensions that is currently pulling the world apart.

Where is the future anyway? Ask your average speaker of English and he'll say, "Oh, it's out there ahead of us still."

Native Americans have much to teach us about our relationship to the planet. Yet the old wounds live on. How can we heal that which separates us?

Affirmations of positive outcomes have gone mainstream.  Both athletes and patients use them  now.  But how do you make them really work?

A long time ago, in graduate school, I read Phillp Kapleau's The Three Pillars of Zen. It was one of the first books by an American deeply into meditation.