SHIFT ETHOS
Elevating Human Consciousness To Promote Inner Well-Being and the Well-Being of our Beautiful Planet
(Excerpt from my forthcoming book) One of the most beautiful explanations I have ever read in describing reality, was in a book called THE SECRET OF SECRETS by OSHO, which is...
In the previous installment in this series on “How To Mindfully Approach Romantic Relationships” – “Love As a Bandage” – we talked about how our concept of LOVE is developed at a very young age through...
Images like the one above provide us with a somewhat erotic and yet sentimental depiction of love and romance that represents a fairly ubiquitous concept of what most of us have...
“In Love” – Artwork by Steve K All knowledge begins with self-knowledge. As a teacher of mindful living and self-awareness, there isn’t a day that passes that I don’t come across...
Body This area deals with your physical health. Since your body is the means through which you experience everything in the physical plane, it is important to keep our body healthy....
Mind Of the 5 areas we’ll be discussing, we will spend most of our time here because “mindfulness” is the centerpiece of our experience of life. The degree of “mindfulness” we...
To live our life to the fullest, assuming that is one’s goal, and that our most basic needs of physical and financial security have been met, I believe there are five areas...
Life is really about “managing” two aspects of our lives: our “outer-environment” and considerably more important, our “inner-environment.” Keeping all the plates spinning can be a daunting task, to say the...
So why is it important to really understand who, or more importantly, what we are? How we see ourselves is ultimately how we see the world we navigate through day after...
In the last ten years, research into states of consciousness has had a bit of a resurgence or what could be described as a new renaissance, as scientific inquiry in the...
So what exactly is this body of ours? Let’s see if we can deconstruct the misguided perception that we are our body and what most of us think of as being...
It’s unfortunate, but life comes at us pretty quick. Pushed out of the security of the nest (home and the boundaries that define our sense of security), we’re taught from a very...
I AM. I AM… These two words, the mere fragment of a statement, and yet an all-encompassing declaration in and of itself, are the most provocative and powerful utterance in our...
Provided herein are countless ways to make better, well-informed decisions as a consumer and learn how to repurpose, upcycle, recycle purchased items and to conscientiously refuse to purchase things that only...
“SHOULD WE REALLY BE CONCERNED WITH GLOBAL WARMING?” Last night while eating dinner at a Carrabba’s near my house I ended up sitting at the bar next to a very charming...
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