Good Afternoon and Happy Tuesday, !We've been busy writing essays and filming yoga videos - creating content to help you lead a vibrant, happy life. If you like our essays and videos, please share this email and encourage your friends and collea...
:We're super excited to announce our new "community of practice" for people interested in learning, sharing, and discussing well-being practices. Our new website, www.wellbeingelixir.org, is a "membership" site where we'll not only be posting our blo...
:Hello friend! We want to thank you for participating in the Wellbeing and Resilience: Building a Better You program. We sincerely hope that you discovered something of value that's contributing to your sense of wellbeing in an ongoing way.We recei...
:As I get older, I periodically think about whether I'm living up to my full potential - becoming my best self. Is it something to be achieved? Is there some "endpoint" when you know you've arrived? In Buddhism, this transcendent state is called Nirv...
:As I get older, I periodically think about whether I'm living up to my full potential - becoming my best self. Is it something to be achieved? Is there some "endpoint" when you know you've arrived? In Buddhism, this transcendent state is called Nirv...
:We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. -BuddhaThe average person has an estimated 70,000 thoughts a day. Unfortunately, the majority of our thoughts are negative. And most are automatic...
:Seena and I recently began leading a program, a 6-week seminar series, on well-being and resilience. It's prompted me to think more deeply about what it means to be resilient. We all face adversity in our lives. Setbacks. Losses. If we're fortunate,...
:The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! - Henry David ThoreauDo yo...
:At the beginning of a new year, many people turn their thoughts to new things they'd like to do to increase their sense of wellbeing and happiness. We set intentions toward developing new habits and achieving new goals. This past year (2020) has bee...
:[Occasionally we'll post messages from other contributors to the Wellbeing Elixir Newsletter. This message if from Jeff Cain - a colleague and friend who teaches at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. We've had the pleasure of working wi...