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Your Charmed Life

Here’s the second half of what I took from Joel Osteen’s message Saturday night in the brand new “house that Ruth built” (this one is the house that George built, the sportscasters are saying…). Anyhow, I was extremely taken with Osteen’s honest, direct, and life-affirming presentation. I am not myself an evangelical Christian. I grew…

My friend Sherry, who is incredibly spiritual and positive, invited me to go to hear Joel Osteen in the new Yankee Stadium. It’s called “A Night of Hope.” I’m there as I write this. Here are my notes, quoted as directly as my Blackberry thumb can manage. I’ll do half today, half tomorrow. (Somebody told…

When my first yoga teacher told me that meditation would do me good, I had two thoughts–both terrifying–in rapid succession. First was, “I’ll get bored.” Second: “I’ll miss something.” It turned out that I was sometimes bored, but I lived through it, gaining some patience in the process. And I don’t think I’ve ever missed…

Let’s review the components of a charmed life. It’s a life characterized by: Confidence Health Abundance Radiance Magnanimity Equanimity Delight This post deals with the second charmed-life requirement: health. I want to share with you “The Nutrient Density Line” that comes from one of the best books on nutrition ever written, in my humble opinion: Eat to…

Oh, my gosh: it’s a negative Top 10 List! Well, yes, but the opposite of these negatives is a way to tap into your power and grow beyond your wildest dreams. The Blockers  1.    Ego — This is major. And I’m using the term “ego” in the spiritual sense, not the Freudian sense. In psychological terms,…

 I would like to write these blog posts ahead of time. When I have a few uninterrupted hours on a plane or even thirty minutes while waiting for an appointment, I’d like to write, write, write, and get a cushiony blog backlog so I’d never have to think about deadlines or if I’ve missed a…

I left you yesterday with a cliffhanger: the three ways I know of to ease the burden of doubt, despair, guilt and shame that can not only build up over a lifetime, but that we take on at birth. (If you didn’t read the previous post, take a look at it. There I tell of…

As I look around at the state of the planet and the lives of individuals—my life-coaching clients’, my friends’, those of people in the news, and my own—it is clear to me that most of the ills the flesh is heir to derive from one single source: We have forgotten that we’re magnificent.  This dearth…

I moved to the magical isle of Manhattan in August of 2000. I still get chills when I see the skyline or walk in Times Square. Not everybody loves New York City. Some people can’t stand it. But they love some other place and that’s the point. There’s a line in a Holly Near song…

Today I am going to get my makeup done. It’s fun, the four or five times a year it happens, to be facially transformed and feel a little bit like Cinderella at the Ball. The reason for this entree into the world of perfect foundation and unlikely eyelashes is that Lantern Books, the lovely little…
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