Good Clean Reads

Daniel Bergner talks what women want and how to tap into your real desires for a more fulfilling sex life.

One of the songs that stuck to me most closely as a child was 500 miles. I may have learned it at summer camp, but the gist of it is a journey song that takes the singer hundreds of miles from his home. Three times up and down 20,000 feet and I am hundreds of- thousands even, miles away from home. I have never been to Vermont and it as beautiful, even in the dark as I have heard.

It is compared...

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”  -M Scott Peck

We resist change. We prefer our known discomfort to the fear of what we don’t know. We stay...

Today is the first night of the Jewish New Year, and after 50 celebrations I have only just learned that this high holy day commemorates the union of Adam and Eve. I am celebrating with love and gratitude as I welcome in this new year in San Francisco. Sitting high among the lights of this beautiful metropolis with a view to the water and the bridges in every direction, I tried to open the party...

I landed in San Francisco late Saturday for the SOCAP pre conference Accelerator experience for Entrepreneurs. First day, we did speed dating, instagram video making, and visualization meditations at this cool permanent HUB of startups in downtown San Fran. I could have stayed free at a hostel, but am dreaming big now, so I went for a booking.com deal when I first learned I won the spot here. I...

Peace activist Paul K. Chappell explains why we have to look at violence as we would look at a disease, such as malaria or HIV.
Visit TheOpeningDoor.org Saturday at 9am PST to listen to the full interview.

Dr. Sondra Barrett author of “Secrets of Your Cells – Discovering Your Body’s Inner Intelligence,” explains how our stress response reflects an underlying cellular tension.

Visit TheOpeningDoor.org Saturday at 9am PST to listen to the full interview.

There is nothing more effective at keeping your body well over time than exercise.  Recent studies have demonstrated that exercise doesn’t only lift your mood and keep you strong but it also actually transforms you on the most primal cellular level.  Apparently our DNA is not static and the language of movement and exertion is what speaks to them most persuasively.

For me, the day never quite...

“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.” ― P.D. Ouspensky

Asleep at the wheel is an expression that can too easily become an accurate description of how we move through our days and show up in our relationships. Our senses become dulled and we don’t smell or taste what we consume, we hurry through the simple practices of hygiene never feeling our hands running...