Although it marks a transition to shorter days and colder weather, there is no more beautiful time of the year in the northeastern United States than the fall. Whether you take time off, as my wife and I did, to take a trip to do “leaf peeping” with some good friends, or whether you enjoy…
If you are at all into popular or academic psychology, you may be well aware of the fact that the concept of “mindfulness” is one of the hottest topics in the entire field today. Dr. Jan Chozen Bays, who is both a physician and Zen master, has defined mindfulness as “deliberately paying attention to what…
During my graduate school training in psychology, religion was a topic that was almost never discussed. Some students were more religious than others, and some were not religious at all. As budding psychologists, we tended to be respectful of each others’ practices or lack thereof, but the subject of religion was almost never discussed professionally.…