Positive Psychology

The Healing Power of Thoughts

Sally was shocked. She didn’t drink and had no history of liver disease. But after a day of extensive tests, the doctors ruled out hepatitis and cancer. The final verdict was “liver failure for no medical reason.” Even though they couldn’t find the cause, they were sure about the effect: without a liver transplant Sally would soon die.

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How to Deal with Disturbing News – A Message for Our Times from Deepak Chopra

Positive Psychology

Almost every day we are exposed to disturbing headlines. Many of the stories are gratuitous in nature – more gossip than “news.” But in our post 9-11 world there are truly disturbing current events that can deeply impact our sense of inner peace and well being.

I happened to see Dr. Deepak Chopra today on MSNBC addressing the terrible shooting in Tucson, Arizona that resulted in a catastrophic injury to Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford and the deaths of 6 innocent people. I’d like to give you a link to the video of Dr. Chopra’s remarks but there doesn’t seem to be one available. Instead I’ll summarize and expand on what he said:

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How to Discover and Live Your Passion – Interview with Barrie Davenport

Motivation

Thought Medicine: Passion is a word that means different things to different people. What’s your personal working definition of “passion”?
Barrie: Passion is the place where one’s values, interests, skills, and joys intersect. Passion isn’t something that you discover “out there” somewhere. Discovering your passion involves thorough self-discovery of who you are and what motivates you, as well profound mind shifts. This work must be followed by specific actions to ignite and flame your passions. You might be passionate about writing for example, but if you aren’t regularly doing the work of writing, you aren’t living a passionate life.

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