Flower Mandalas Project

(Faking it till you make it and the cure for hypochondria) If you’re old enough, you might remember the iconic Memorex television commercials from the 1970s in which jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/11/is-it-live-or-is-it-memorex.html

A few months ago, I took a business bootcamp course from Mirasee, an organization that helps build and scale businesses using a combination of audience-building strategies and online courses. The...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/11/stuck-find-bottleneck.html

Last week, I happened upon a Facebook video that gave me pause. Until a few years ago, I'd always eaten meat. I love a good hamburger, a steak, turkey breast, salmon, grilled chicken. And I'd alw...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-reluctant-carnivore.html

Creative activities—and the creative approach to life that often accompanies them—can help us better withstand the huffing and puffing of life's Big Bad Wolf. Creative activities are rewardin...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/10/dive-deep-to-live-creatively.html

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay is desperate ground. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War Stress is one of the most insidious challenges to building resilienc...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/09/clean-up-your-cat-hairs.html

A Story Within a Story or The Story of a Story Eugene K. Garber's Eroica Trilogy is a sustained exploration of the powerful impulse to tell stories and the impediments all storytellers face—an...

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I recently flew from Boston to the West Coast to see my oldest and closest friend. I don't fly often, but when I do, I try to get a a window seat. Yes, there's less legroom, and yes, I have to st...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-view-from-30k.html

Something Different This Way Comes   Transformations Press (i.e., David) is extraordinarily pleased to announce the resurrection of two iconoclastic novels by Eugene K. Garber, as well as the i...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-change-of-pace-eroica-trilogy.html

NOTE: This post is adapted from my new book The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World. I’m posting it here because it’s the key to staying balanced when the road gets rocky.   To...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/08/stay-sane-with-personal-craziness-index.html

In the film The Wizard of Oz, after a tornado has lifted her house into the air and set it down again, Dorothy steps outside to survey the damage. As she observes the rolling hills, the fantastic...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/07/follow-your-yellow-brick-road.html

NOTE: If you live in the Boston area, please join me on Friday, July 6th, at Cabot Street Books & Cards in Beverly for a reception for an exhibition of my Flower Mandalas. Time: 6pm – 8pm. Plac...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/06/artists-for-artists-part-i.html

I returned from a trip to Hong Kong a week or so ago, and naturally people asked me how it was. My answer: Intense! I went to Hong Kong to do workshops on The Art of Balance and Cultivating Creat...

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Many people think meditation is complicated or difficult, but it it’s not. It’s literally as simple as breathing, and a good place to begin meditating is with a one-minute meditation repeated...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-easiest-way-to-meditate.html

This post is a reprise of one of the most popular posts from last year. It’s about how to take care of yourself when you’re too pressed for time for normal self-care. It’s one of many self-...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-mini-lesson-on-mini-self-care.html

As many of you know, I’ve been making Flower Mandala images for a very long time. What you may not know – because I’ve never really promoted them – is that I’ve also created a wide vari...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/05/merch.html

Waiting to Die – Part II Kenneth Ring I might have been a tad too glib when in the first installment of what clearly will be a terminal series having to do with my personal terminus, I observed...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/04/ken-ring-is-still-waiting-to-die.html

In the late ’50s, psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg observed that as we mature, we progress through three basic levels of moral development. At the pre-conventional levels, our sense of what’s f...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/04/justice-attorneys-samurai-and-old.html

Recently, I was in touch with a woman who is transitioning from being an engineer to becoming a therapist, and we’ve been exchanging emails on our respective paths. I thought I’d share a bit ...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-and-why-i-became-therapist.html

My Flower Mandala images – which I created as a form of meditation to help me through a difficult time – have had the unexpected result of carrying me, metaphorically, to widely dispersed par...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/03/hong-kong-or-bust.html

NOTE: Today is the 25th year anniversary of my near-death experience, an event that ended one phase of my life and began another, like the period at the end of this sentence ends it. And then a n...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/02/25th-anniversary-celebration.html

To more widely distribute the ideas and practices in The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World, I’ve started to create supplements to the book. As I create them, I’m making them ava...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-art-of-balance-cheat-sheet.html

A LEGION OF UNBALANCERS HAS BEEN UNLEASHED UPON THE EARTH – ALONG WITH THE MEANS TO SEND THEM SCURRYING! Or, to put it another way, my new self-help book – The Art of Balance: Staying...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/02/launched-and-099-sale.html

I’m doing the final tweaks on the book, ebook, and website for The Art of Balance. Here’s what some early reviewers are already saying about it: “I found it empowering and self-motivating...

https://flowermandalas.blogspot.com/2018/01/coming-attractions-art-of-balance.html

DON’T LET YOUR HEART BE COLONIZED BY FEAR. – JACK KORNFIELD WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT PRACTICING WHAT I PREACH The BATTLE FOR BALANCE is a life and death struggle. Stay balanced, and we enjoy l...

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NOTE: This is a guest post by Kenneth Ring , PhD. Dr. Ring is an internationally recognized authority on near-death experiences. His writings on this phenomenon include five books and nearly ...

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