A Mindful Life

If you’re interested in Myers-Briggs personality type systems, you might check out An INTP Profile (if you’re an INTP, that is). I’m not sure if there are other sites for the rest of the types.

Nature is intricately and infinitely connected. The minute I name something and begin to regard it as a separate entity, I break this unbreakable entity. So that which makes it possible for us to seek truths about the universe and about ourselves has within itself the guarantee that we will never be able [...]

I just heard on NPR, and have confirmed via Computerworld, that the telemarketing calls won’t be stopping as anticipated on October 1. I’m dismayed, to say the least.

U.S. court blocks do-not-call list
Story by Andy Sullivan
SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 (REUTERS)
A federal court in Oklahoma has blocked a national do-not-call list, which would allow consumers [...]

I don’t often write from a personal point of view on this blog, although it is my hope that my personality seeps through my words.
However, tonight I was reminiscing about my youth, so I pulled out old journals and paged through them. There were two in high school (1978 & 1980) and [...]

This is a reprint for educational purposes.
Ten Steps To Positive Body Image
Compiled by Margo Maine, Ph. D.
One list can not automatically tell you how to turn negative body thoughts into positive body image, but it can help you think about new ways of looking more [...]

SchoolBlues.com was recently launched by founder Bill Keefe to provide mental health information tailored to high school students. This arose from the overwhelming success of CampusBlues.com, which provides mental/physical health education and outreach to college students at more than more than 300 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.
SchoolBlues is a [...]

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.
–Enid Bagnold

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart?
–Diane Ackerman

From an article, The Afternoon Apathy Syndrome, by Simran Bhargava:

Yawn. Your body is feeling leaden, your thoughts are sluggish. Strange glazed circles are forming before your eyes. You literally have to pry your eyelids open to keep awake. All around the office, colleagues are in a similar state of passing away.
Guess what time [...]

An excerpt from an excellent resource, the Association for Humanistic Psychology:

Humanistic psychology is a value orientation that holds a hopeful, constructive view of human beings and of their substantial capacity to be self-determining. It is guided by a conviction that intentionality and ethical values are strong psychological forces, among the basic determinants of human [...]