“The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung argued that when we fall in love with someone, what we really fall in love with are the characteristics that are in us, but that, for whatever reason, we cannot access. This is what…
“WANT-TO goals reflect a person’s genuine interest and values (they’re “WHY”). We pursue these kinds of goals because of personal enjoyment (intrinsec interest), because of the inherent importance of the goal (identified interest), or because the goal has been assimilated into…
Last year, I thought I had Mindfulness figured out. It was 2011 when I learned for the first time about the concept of Mindfulness in Andy Puddicombe’s book, and I was hooked. In my quest to understand and practice it, I…
I met Rick Rubin for the first time while I was watching “The shop”, specifically the episode about hip hop artists. I noticed right away his calm presence, the luminosity in his eyes. Rick was present, and he exuded enlightenment. Only when…
Thirteen years after the book “EVOLVE YOUR BRAIN” was published for the first time, I started reading it. Thus, I became fascinated by Joe Dispenza’s idea that we are what we are thinking: “What we repeatedly think about and where we focus our…
When I read this paragraph at the beginning of the book “The marriage lie,” my hopeless romantic heart trembled. “- You are my favourite person on the planet, he murmurs in my ear, and I smile. These are the words we’ve…
“In my mother’s family, divorce is just a seven-letter word. Letters that could easily be replaced with I’m bored or bad luck. Both of her parents married three times.” Elle is in love with two men: Jonas, her first love from…
I am fifty-two years old, and I am interested in the process of aging. Therefore I read books written by specialists who: – explain what is happening to our bodies while we are aging – describe the research done so far…
Tahereh Mafi is the modern Sheherazade. And I stand with my opinion. Highly accomplished as a writer, she continuously amazes me with her novels. I enjoyed reading “This woven kingdom” enormously because the writer made me realize how we justify our…
When I hear about Ivy league graduates, I imagine they get spectacular jobs based on their grades and that their lives are extraordinary. The writer Kirstin Chen, through her latest novel “Counterfeit,” changed my opinion completely. She showed me that it…
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