Pomodoro Time Management
Pomodoro is a simple time management technique. When you are working on something, at work, at home or wherever, set a timer for 25 minutes. When the timer rings, take a break for 5 minutes. After four 25-minute sessions, take a 20-minute break. Pretty simple. Pomodoro means tomato in Italian.Continue Reading
Trauma and Intense Emotions – The EFT Peace Program
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) are ways of eliminating intense emotions that serve no purpose, and just make the situation and life worse. I see EFT and EMDR as a way of normalizing emotions surrounding issues or situations that could have been caused byContinue Reading
Mendi, Muse 2, Biofeedback and Mindfulness Meditation
(updated January 2022) Biofeedback is a type of therapy where you use information about your body, as registered by biofeedback devices, in order to improve your thinking and emotions. The theory is that by getting feedback about your internal state of calmness or agitation, you can teach yourself how toContinue Reading
Names of God recordings
I created some recordings of the names of God from premium artificial intelligence computer voices. I added “qualifiers” which I think are crucial for my own recovery. I am posting these recordings here, in the hope that someone else might find them as useful as I have. Listening to theseContinue Reading
Human Nature – Jekyl and Hyde
“In man there are two natures; his spiritual or higher nature and his material or lower nature. In one he approaches God, in the other he lives for the world alone. Signs of both these natures are to be found in men. In his material aspect he expresses untruth, crueltyContinue Reading
A Book on Living with Chronic Illness
I am taking a Zoom workshop on how to live with a chronic health problem, and Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, the 5th edition, is the manual they are using. From what both the book authors and the Zoom workshop facilitators say, the strategies for dealing with chronicContinue Reading
A Sick World
Regard the world as the human body which, though at its creation whole and perfect, hath been afflicted, through various causes, with grave disorders and maladies. Not for one day did it gain ease, nay, its sickness waxed more severe, as it fell under the treatment of ignorant physicians, whoContinue Reading
Evil
“Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.” (Baha’u’llah) “The best of men are those who serve the people; the worst of men are those who harm the people.” (Abdu’l-Baha) “If you can’t help others, at least don’t harm them.” (Dalai Lama)Continue Reading
Know Yourself – Checklists
(Updated with new videos on October 4, 2021) My definition of checklists is based on rating oneself from a scale of 0 – 10 on a particular quality, characteristic, attribute, virtue or fault. So for example, today when rating myself whether I was honest today, I can give myself a rating ofContinue Reading
Know Yourself – Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman is the founder of Positive Psychology. In 1998, he was selected to be the president of the American Psychological Association. He became disenchanted with how psychology emphasized what is wrong with people, and mostly ignored what is right with people. This wasn’t always the case, but became theContinue Reading