Many years ago I recall sitting in Madison Square Garden with a friend of mine watching his son box in the National Golden Gloves tournament. Between the ninth and tenth round, without any provocation whatsoever, a guy two rows in front of us suddenly stood up and hurled a beer bottle toward the ring. It [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The Science of Hope
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Brain Question, Hope, Ramachandran on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’re paying any attention at all, it’s difficult to miss how much neuroscience is infiltrating just about everything that has to do with anything these days. From parenting to professional poker, from therapy to theology, from advertising to economics to education to ethics, neuroscience is making rapid inroads. Some of these areas desperately need [...]
Heart-Strengthening Gifts for Our Children
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A LIttle Book of Parenting Skills, Bruce Perry, Strength of Heart on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Strength of heart seems to be a kind of ineffable quality that we mostly know after we’ve seen it. Last time I suggested the first three of six experiences that we might provide our children – instruction and modeling that I feel ultimately contribute on a variety of levels – to strength of heart, a [...]
Six Essential Experiences We Missed as Kids
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Early Events Scale, Inner Kids, Loving Touch, Susan Greenland on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As children, our worldview is pretty much shaped by what happens in our immediate household, especially in the early years. As a result, it isn’t until we are older that we begin to see that not every family operates the same way ours does. We begin to notice things going on in other kids’ homes [...]
Would You Sell Your Death?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bonnie Badenoch, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, IANDS, Pam Reynolds, Pim von Lommel, Rabindranath Tagore on October 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Death benefits tend to be a hard sell, especially to those designated to do the dying. Stephen Levine once framed this conundrum for me nicely by asking: “Would you sell your death for a million dollars?” What that would mean is that you don’t get to die. You’re forced to remain in your body as [...]
