Anxiety can easily run away with us if we merely react to it. The best way to halt the runaway fear before it begins, is to sink down, breathe, and take the reins.

There is a mantra I love that can help enormously with this process we call Life, a mantra that really should be a Core Principle for Living. Here it is.

Chinese medicine calls viruses “Pernicious Evil Influences.” But while viruses are nasty, the anxiety they generate is worse.

When you are anxious, scared, or confused, it is a sign that you need to shift out of your ego and into your soul. That’s where the power of Now comes in.

It is far too easy to become wrapped up in what is “wrong” in our lives, far too easy to slip into self-pity and to forget that this moment is but a point on an infinite trajectory.

The opportunity to come into our fullness is the sacred gift contained in midlife. Who are you? Why are you here? What needs to be done? And what will remain when your castle returns to the sea?

One of the more interesting phenomena of middle age is the recognition of just how very stupid and arrogant you have been up to wherever you find yourself near the halfway point.

Our ego wants to stay comfortable, it wants to take care of number one. But the soul has higher aspirations. Which do we choose?