by Stuart Haines | Mar 14, 2021 | Happiness, Philosophy, Self-actualization
As I get older, I periodically think about whether I’m living up to my full potential – becoming my best self. Is it something to be achieved? Is there some “endpoint” when you know you’ve arrived? In Buddhism, this transcendent state is...
by Stuart Haines | Feb 14, 2021 | Resilience, Wellbeing
The Steel Mill by Thomas Hart Benton, Oil on Canvas, 1930. Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas Seena and I recently began leading a program, a 6-week seminar series, on well-being and resilience. It’s prompted me to think more deeply about what it...
by Stuart Haines | Jan 17, 2021 | Achieving Goals, Wellbeing
At the beginning of a new year, many people turn their thoughts to new things they’d like to do to increase their sense of wellbeing and happiness. We set intentions toward developing new habits and achieving new goals. This past year (2020) has been...
by Stuart Haines | Nov 14, 2020 | Mindfulness, Wellbeing
In the early 1990’s, I read the now classic book Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn after watching Bill Moyer’s PBS special entitled Healing and the Mind: Healing From Within. Some years earlier, Dr. Kabat-Zinn founded the Mindfulness-Based...
by Stuart Haines | Oct 12, 2020 | Philosophy, Stoicism
The ruins in the ancient city of Ephesus. The Stoics understood that nothing is permanent.Possessions, indeed all “things”, are indifferents that can’t determine your happiness. Over the past few years, I’ve read a number of books about...
