by Dr. Paul Ward | Dec 12, 2024 | Blog, Conversation Circles
Helping Humanity is the title of one of the chapters in our book, Midlife, New Life: Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond. In the chapter, we explore environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and leadership in governments and business, and consider how...
by Dr. Paul Ward | Jan 1, 2024 | Blog, Living
Living is my word for the new year. Living is one of those words that is typically followed or preceded by other words or phrases. Although inspired by the subtitle of our upcoming book, Midlife, New Life: Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond, many positive words...
by Dr. Paul Ward | Dec 17, 2022 | Blog, Conversation Circles
Finding Your Voice was one of many themes we explored in our conversation circles this year. In these conversation circles, we discussed our physical voice, the outer voice we use for speaking, singing, and perhaps chanting; our inner voice, the internal monologue in...
by Dr. Paul Ward | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog, Consciousness
Our conscious mind is small in comparison to our vast unconscious mind. This unconscious mind is part of what Thich Nhat Hanh referred to as store consciousness. Describing consciousness as like a house, Thich Nhat Hanh suggested that store consciousness is the...
by Dr. Paul Ward | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog, Mindfulness
Surrender is my word for the year 2021. Rather than new year’s resolutions which frequently get diluted within the first few days of January, I advocate setting clear intentions. Not so much specific goals or outcomes, but intentions for how we wish to show up in the...