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Lawns are a Soul-Crushing Timesuck
A recent essay by an Ohio woman who refuses to mow her lawn has struck a nerve. Thirteen hundred people have weighed in with a comment on Sarah Baker’s tale of flouting a neighborhood mowing ordinance in the face of …
Science Reveals Artists Really Do Have Different Brains
We might now have neurological proof that artists actually are different creatures from everyone else on the planet. According to a study published in NeuroImage, researchers believe that artists have brains that are structurally different from non-artists. It appears that …
Public Schools to Teachers: Run Your Class on Fear or Get Fired
As part of a burgeoning new public school program called “No Nonsense Nurturing” teachers are required to wear earpieces. They’re reminded to be less enthusiastic and “expect 100 percent compliance.” And in at least one high profile case, the teachers …
Think Your Conscious Brain Directs Your Actions? Think Again
Think your deliberate, guiding, conscious thoughts are in charge of your actions?
Think again.
In a provocative new paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a team led by Dr. Ezequiel Morsella at San Francisco State University came to a …
Why Body Intelligence (BQ) and Why Now?
Humans have the opportunity to make the shift now from fear-focused, adrenaline-fueled living to full-body-intelligent living. Body intelligence expands our perspective beyond fear to the rich, millennia-long wisdom we carry in our cells. BQ includes all feelings and inner experience, …
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is now available!
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Warner Klemp.
Integrating one commitment is life changing. All fifteen together are revolutionary. That’s big talk, but these are big commitments. …
What Happens When We Don’t Say What We Think and Feel
Communication is so much more than the words we speak.
Reshma Patel explores how the simple interaction of just talking completely transformed the communication in her marriage.
World Beyond Blame
World Beyond Blame and Julie Colwell, PhD., invites us to join in weaving a blame-free world, full of vitality, connection and possibility.
Check out the guidelines for living a blame-free life and consider taking the 90-day Blame-Free Challenge.
Housing the Homeless Saves Money
Giving apartments to homeless people who’ve been on the streets for years before they’ve received treatment for drug or alcohol problems or mental illness may not sound like a wise idea. But that’s what’s being done in cities across America …
Authenticity Must be Practiced
A recent interview with Dr. Brene Brown featured in Origin Magazine and reprinted in The Huffington Post explored the role practice plays in living an authentic, vulnerable, and conscious life.
Brown talks about the importance of connection to other likeminded …
