As seasons change so do our moods & attitudes
If you experienced a shift in body, mind and Spirit last week when Daylight Savings Time went into effect in most places in the United States, you are like most other people who experienced the same thing. Time change can affect us in many forms.
Saving Tibet from China atrocities is a human rights issue
As a pastoral psychologist counselor, I receive a lot of mail and email from people, institutions and foundations describing their mission in this world. I guess people are trying to find their rich, purpose driven life.
Translating our feelings can overcome stress & depression
Too many people are being diagnosed with depression when all they really are is unhappy, says an Australian psychiatrist Gordon Parker.
Parker conducted a study which included 242 teachers who were followed for a period of 15 years. During that time, more then three-quarters of them were found to meet the criteria for clinical depression. These criteria include having a “low mood” for more than two weeks combined with appetite change, sleep disturbance, drop in libido and fatigue.
Being 'elfish' is a good notion
You can learn a lot from a child. Maybe that is why Jesus loved little children.
Listening to an 11-year-old freckled face girl the other day made me think about what was going on in that little brain of hers. I don’t like to think much these days. I just want to be spontaneous, be my authentic self (if that is possible), and show compassion to others. That’s not asking a lot, is it?
The Spirit of the Eternal Now
It was the late 1960’s, my junior and senior year at Samford University when I crossed paths with a fellow name Paul Johannes Tillich. As a student of religious and philosophical studies, Tillich was introduced to a few, select students in an advanced course in theology. Paul Tillich was new to me.
