Greetings Reader, I read the news today, oh boy. Lately, the news has been . . . not great. Well, actually . . . more like pretty bad. But that’s just what I’m seeing on dedicated news feeds. My social feeds have been a whole other story. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been seeing videos that have documented extraordinary displays of courage and determination. You might have seen them, too: A young woman single-handedly blocking a police prison van that was carrying students who were...

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...