Patience: A Quality to Love

Patience is a quality that we must cultivate. Impatience brings out the emotion of aggression, and the consequence is usually guilt that results from verbally lashing out and hurting others as well as ourselves.

Here are a few tools that can help you on your road to mastering patience. Read More…


Respect: Find Out What It Means

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Yes, Aretha Franklin said it best: R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me. Since it sometimes feels like we have forgotten all about this very important concept in today’s society, I’m gonna tell you a little bit about it and how it relates to our well-being.

Respect is the basis for healthy relationships. Because of this, it is the fundamental value upon which a peaceful and productive society depends.

It is often said that, to be respectful, we should treat others the way we’d like to be treated.  But what people often forget to do is to first find out how they would really like to be treated – it starts with the self, with how we treat ourselves. Many times, we treat others with the same consideration we have for ourselves – which is ZERO. So, the first question here is: If you really think about it, how well do you treat yourself? Do your actions and your lifestyle (the series of actions that define your approach to life) show that you are treating yourself with the utmost respect?  What does that mean?  What is respect?

Respect involves the thoughts, words and actions that demonstrate: Read More…