Does Your View of Life Support You?

Enormous parts of our lives go completely unexamined. For instance, have you ever given any thought to whether your view of life supports you? And if you’ve ever stopped to wonder about this, how would you even know if life were supporting your worldview?
The Unforeseen Gifts of a Total Eclipse

A week ago, a childhood dream was fulfilled when I was wrapped in the immersive experience of a total eclipse. I read about eclipses when I was about seven, so that means I waited sixty-five years to see it. It was everything it possibly could have been, but the real gift of the day turned out to have nothing to do with the eclipse itself.
How to Give Yourself a Break

Giving yourself a break always sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it?
Why, then, are we so infinitely creative in finding ways to postpone it?
To be clear, what I’m talking about is being a little easier on ourselves than most of us tend to be. It occurs to me part of our genius for putting this off has to do with the notion that we’re just not quite ready to do it yet. Unfortunately, this feeling of not being ready can go on almost indefinitely.
If I’m Enjoying My Life, Something Must Be Wrong

“If I’m Enjoying My Life, Something Must Be Wrong.” I was trying to get to the bottom of what a client was telling me when they gave me a hand and said that line. They’d been explaining the feeling they lived in most of the time, one that suggested a peaceful feeling was an unknown occurrence in their life.