Nina Amir's Thoughts on Human Potential, Personal Growth and Practical Spirituality
Not long ago I wrote a post in which I asked what people do to make themselves happy. I also publish many of my posts at VibrantNation.com, and there I received a comment from someone struggling with HOW to be happy. The woman’s daughter was struggling with a difficult situation. With Thanksgiving and the holiday [...]
Recently I’ve been trying to help my daughter through a particularly low patch in her life. A freshman at college, she’s felt depressed and lonely. We’ve had many conversations during which I had to listen to her muffled words as she cried and blew her nose. As my heart broke and I tried to hold [...]
Part of the midlife experience for many mothers involves releasing children when they go off to college. Sometimes this means just moving them into a dorm across town. Other times it means taking them off to college across state or several states away. And still other times it involves leaving them at universities all the [...]
Over the last two weeks I’ve spent a lot of time with my daughter preparing her for college and helping her deal with leaving behind a boyfriend she cares about deeply. These two teens maturely choose to end the relationship to allow each other freedom while they live on opposite coasts and experience life in [...]
I know the uselessness of anger. I know the damage it causes both emotionally and physically. Yet, sometimes anger proves the most difficult emotion to change. Once it comes over me, it feels like it attaches itself to me like a vice with no removal mechanism. I’m left to watch the negative results set forth [...]
As my daughter prepares to leave for college, she wavers between excitement about the new life she is starting and the old one she is ending—in particular the romantic relationship coming to a close. Smart enough to know better than to pursue a four month-old relationship bi-coastally as they both enter their freshman years in [...]
While it is all well and good to want “things” in the physical world, and it is part of our nature as physical beings to want and to need material stuff, the Kabbalists teach that such desires — and even the fulfillment of those desires — will never make us happy. Additionally, they will never [...]
This video pretty much says it all…Human’s have a huge ability to survive even the worst situations–even concentration camps. Yet, many of us feel we can’t survive much less difficult situations in our lives. We need only look at the huge suicide rates in teens to know that this is true. Here we have a [...]
Like the founders of our nation promised, we all have the right to pursue happiness and we do this via the choices we make. Today, Independence Day, I’d like to remind you that you are, indeed independent. You are free. We have the freedom to pursue the things that make you happy and bring you [...]
I visited my 86-year-old mother this past weekend. She was depressed and upset because her dog has contracted Lyme disease and possibly also hurt its back. The dog isn’t eating and can’t walk well; it has lost control of one of it’s hind legs. My mother, also, seems to have lost her appetite. That dog [...]
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