Hi Reader, Have you ever noticed that telling yourself to "think positive" rarely changes how you actually feel? If you're struggling with thoughts like, "I'm not good enough," or "Nothing is going to work out," you've probably noticed how trying to replace them with clichéd affirmations usually doesn't help. Why? Because your mind knows you don't believe it. Most approaches to positive thinking ask us to deny what we're experiencing. Yoga wisdom takes a different approach. The Yoga Sutras...

Greetings Reader, Morbid curiosity got the better of me last Thursday night: I watched Trump’s speech. Oy vey. I thought about trying to count the number of lies he told but the man is a Top Fuel dragster of disinformation; he covered 1,000 feet of falsehoods every 3.6 seconds. I couldn’t keep up. The thing that really makes me meshugana is that Trump’s conception of reality is based entirely on feelings rather than facts. Feelings aren’t facts, but they feel like facts. And the idea that...

Greetings Reader, The Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley is a place where you can interact with amazing large-scale modern art that plays with your sense of distance, depth, balance, and perspective as you move around it. I've been there a few times over the years. One of the artists whose work I discovered during my first visit, Charles Ginnever, described his sculptures as “monuments of the motions of the mind” that invited the viewer to meditate on the nature of perception....