Fellow blogger Gretchen Rubin is always getting me to think about what I could be doing differently or slightly better to arrive at that happiness thing people are always talking about. She offers her readers a great happiness quiz on her post for The Huffington Post. Here’s an excerpt: My friend Michael Melcher wrote an outstanding…

Thanks to Beyond Blue reader Barbara Bowman who is always turning me on to new spiritual authors and thinkers. She and many other regular readers know that I am on a forever quest to meditate. But this article she lead me to, by Phil Fox Rose, may be simple enough to get me started. Phil…

I was delighted by this response to my post, “My Holistic Approach to Depression” by Beyond Blue reader Rick S.: I am a Buddhist and have meditated for 35 plus years. I teach meditation and teach Buddhist philosophy in the advice that I give to people in daily life. No one who knows me would…

I just found this wonderful article on mindfulness posted on zenhabits.net by Leo Babauta. He gives us 11 ways we can be mindful. 1. Do one thing at a time. Single-task, don’t multi-task. When you’re pouring water, just pour water. When you’re eating, just eat. When you’re bathing, just bathe. Don’t try to knock off…

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