Time For a New Computer?
Computers, like cars, don’t last forever. Nor would you really want them to. Eventually, the time will come to purchase another computer. And with the options available today, you’ll wonder why you didn’t trade the old one in a long time ago.
Footsteps of the Past Obstruct The Here and Now
As a Life Coach, BPD Coach and Mental Health Coach, A.J. Mahari talks with clients every day who are in the on-going experience of having their footsteps from the past obstruct their here-and-now in ways that mean unidentified and unreached goals and dreams. Footsteps from the past do not have to continue to obstruct your here-and-now. Mahari knows first-hand that the first step in creating a here-and-now unfolding authenticity in your life journey – to reach your promise and potential and unleash your passion – is to awaken to the awareness that you are looking back more than you are living now and more than you can look ahead with any confidence.
Grief – A Process of Gaining Perspective and Coping
Grief is what it is. Grief is a part of life. Grief is a process that unfolds whenever we suffer, experience, or feel loss. Some reasons for grief are obvious – the death of a loved one, loss of a job or relationship, for example. Reasons for grief can be subtle – unfinished emotional baggage from childhood interfering with goal identification and achievement in the here and now, for example. Life Coach, A.J. Mahari outlines 7 keys that help the grief process and 7 keys that hinder the process of grieving.
Pets and Vaccinations – Helpful or Harmful?
I have had pets most of my adult life. We have laws that require us to vaccinate our pets. Our veterinarians remind us yearly that our pets are coming due again for these vaccinations. I have now had two very bad experiences with pets and vaccinations. One was years ago and it cost my cat his life. One is on-going right now with my puppy, Buffy, currently, and suddenly after having her second set of vaccinations at just 12 weeks of age became lame, had a fever, with all four paws swollen – diagnosis – Hypertrophic Osteodystrophy (HOD). In Buffy’s case it is highly suspected, even by my Vet, that Buffy’s HOD is a reaction to her last set of vaccinations. Are vaccinations, as recommended by most vets helpful or harmful?
Having Faith in Your Writing is Like Having Faith in God
If you write a book, you are going to be monk-like sequestered, but the comparison goes deeper than just the physicality the two endeavours share. Faith means not worrying. That is what can be called a fearless, focussed writer. If you write, at some point, you give yourself over to the process. You let the book write you.
Privacy When Posting Photos On Facebook
All of my family members are on Facebook. It was just a matter of time before I registered too. It’s nice to keep up with what everyone is doing and much easier to post photos once for all to see. However, this is the one thing that I also don’t like about Facebook. The fact that when someone on my friends list posts photos, it’s possible for people that I don’t even know to see them too. Privacy when it comes to the internet and sites like Facebook is something that needs to paid attention to.
The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice
Coulehan and Block’s book, The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice, is a wonderfully crafted instructional guide on the art and science of how to conduct a medical interview. It is primarily written for medical students who are just beginning their professional interaction with patients. However, it is also designed to serve as a resource for those who are further along in their education. This book is a complete and concise guide to teach the medical student how to perform the most important source of diagnostic information. The authors believe that seventy to eighty percent of all relevant data are derived from the medical interview. The hidden medical curriculum says that real medicine is based solely on objective data (such as numbers, graphs, and images) while subjective information (such as the patient’s story) lacks value because it lacks quantification. In other words, what patients feel, the suffering they experience, and the disability that haunts them are secondary in importance to physiologic quantities that can be directly observed. Thus, most of the clinician’s energy is devoted to tracking down and treating organ-based disease with little energy left over for the personal, social, cultural or spiritual dimensions of illness. The authors are hoping to convince medical professionals of the importance of nonquantifiable material to diagnose and treat a patient.
Can Meditation Transform the World?
Meditation is now the IN thing. Cross-legged yogis and Buddhist monks can be seen in advertisements for everything from computers and credit cards to herbal teas, major newspapers and magazines carry stories on the benefits of meditation with tips from famous film stars, and no self-respecting bookshop is without a how-to-meditate section.
Links Between Brothers: Ernest and Leicester Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway and his brother Leicester Hemingway have a lot in common. Each died by his own hand. Both were writers. Is it a curse of writers to have some incredible talent and then die by their own hands? An examination of both men reveals that they might have a history of suicide and depression in their family. Their father, who committed suicide in 1928, was a doctor, but it was their mother who had a profound influence on the family. Both men would later become writers.
