Library
Filter
601-700 of 909 results
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger
Kyle Cease explains why you should never lose your inner child.
4 min
Depression is the unavoidable by-product of not being who you really are
Nanice Ellis
Recently, we were doing some work with a couple who were struggling in their relationship. They had been together for twelve years and had two children. It seemed that they fought about everything – about raising their children, about sex, about finances, and about where and...
Krishnananda and Amana
Could you feel empathy for someone who has committed an act of terrorism?
Chris Agnos
How many of you can recall situations in which you felt unjustly treated or taken advantage of and you did not stand up for yourself? Or remember finding yourself in a situation where you felt small and insignificant? Or recall generally feeling overwhelmed? For me, it has...
Krishnananda
We get an energy high in our initial time with someone but the going can get rough when we settle into life together. Most of us are deeply wounded with shame, insecurities and fears, full of mistrust but at the same time desperately needy for love. We bring this woundedness...
Krishnanada Trobe
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need – at points – to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation.
5 min
The Flint water crisis exposes like nothing else the toxic cynicism of America's ruling class, writes Jesse Jackson. In their privileged view, the victims of the lead poisoning are disposable 'unpersons' that matter less than General Motors' auto parts. But now they, and...
Jesse Jackson
We began with rhythm. From the beating of our mother’s heart to the first kick in our mother’s womb. We were born to move. ‘We Came To Dance’ combines this rhythm that we all share, with the rhythm of music, dance and an epic piece of spoken word that unravels over the...
3 min
You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. It’s just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in less than ten minutes if you don’t come up with something quick.
Gilbert Ross
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.” ...
Rae Swersey
Loving-kindness meditation is also known as metta meditation.
Elyane Youssef
I understand it hurts, and it hurts really badly. No one deserves to be treated the way you were. No one deserves to feel emotional pain tearing through their body or bringing them to their knees. You did nothing to deserve this and it is not your fault.
Kristen Brown
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and collaboration.
It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that the globalized capitalist economy is...
3 min
“Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot
Evelyn Rennich
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
After hundreds of years of isolation, here’s how the indigenous heroes are fighting to reclaim their cultural identity — and their health.
9 min
'Women all over the country can write about the damage done to their lives by the rigged economy and the special place in hell they work to escape daily when trying to fight back.'
Donna Smith
Poet, teacher, activist and more-pay tribute to Dr. Maya Angelou and listen to her read her unforgettable poem "Phenomenal Woman."
2 min
The crack in your being that pain inflicts is a sacred gift where openness, love, compassion, vulnerability and new inner wisdom can emerge and connect with the world.
William Timothy Walker
Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can...
4 min
The story of one of the most complex organisations in the world, told through the voices of those on the frontline.
3 min
News of the poisoned water crisis in Flint has reached a wide audience around the world. The basics are now known: the Republican governor, Rick Snyder, nullified the free elections in Flint, deposed the mayor and city council, then appointed his own man to run the city. To...
Michael Moore
Racism isn't just about police brutality or the criminal justice system. It's in the air and water. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a textbook case of environmental racism. We explain how it's playing out across the country.
3 min
Many of you have contacted me wanting to know how you can help the people of Flint with the two-year long tragedy of drinking water contaminated by the radical decisions made by the Governor of Michigan. The offer is much appreciated by those who are suffering through this...
Michael Moore
An emergency physician’s beautifully written and agonizingly empathic account of “how we used to die” starkly contrasted with how most people die now in our death-defying, death-dealing military industrial medicopharmaceuticalized culture.
Louis Profeta, M.D.
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally
Appreciate others for what they have done. Don't apologize for simply existing.
Yao Xiao
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in...
2 min
France passes a new law that bans the use of "excessively skinny" models and puts regulations on airbrushed photos to promote better self-image in women and girls. Some critics in the fashion industry have criticized the law's ambiguous language.
1 min
You don’t have to tackle it all at once.
Maritsa Patrinos
The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in a seemingly endless loop of negative thinking, or wondered why you fixate on a stray rude comment but easily forget compliments, you may have a culprit to blame: evolution.
Kathleen Toohill
“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” -Carl Jung
Return Yoga
“We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
It began in high school—actually before that—but my my first organizing effort was done senior year of high school. Speaking out against things that seemed unjust has always felt natural to me. I had this deep understanding of what I thought was fair or not fair, even when I...
Bulaong Ramiz
While Western media coverage of the Ebola crisis faded sometime in November, daily case counts in Sierra Leone continued to grow exponentially through the top of the new year. Okayafrica, teaming up with single-subject news site Ebola Deeply, arrived in Freetown on New Year's...
33 min
At a vigil to honor the victims of Sandy Hook, I read aloud the piece that Rabbi Lerner wrote on December 14th, 2012, entitled: “Banning All Guns is Necessary but Not Sufficient”, that we also need a fundamental transformation of consciousness both inner and societal. An...
Cheryl Hashman Sheinman
Hot boredom is like being locked in a padded cell. You are bored, miserable, and irritated. Cool boredom is quite spacious.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men never think about patriarchy—what it means, how it is created and sustained. Many men in...
bell hooks
John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn't.
12 min
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
3 min
The following is excerpted from The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path by Jay Michaelson, published by Ben Yahuda Press.
In the 1990s, a prominent teacher of what’s called “New Thought”—a/k/a The Secret, the Law of Attraction, the Teachings of Abraham—told a group...
Jay Michaelson
Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships.
Dieter Duhm
From the anthology Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love
I hesitate to start an essay with definitions as if I could compel you with force of logic to accept conclusions that follow irrefutably from premises. Nor would that be very sexy: an imposition rather...
Charles Eisenstein
“I am a woman. I am thankful for that, for I like being a woman.” Already this statement, if spoken in full truth, requires a fundamental shift in the worldview of women, reconnecting them with their true and most beautiful sources.
Sabine Lichtenfels
"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."
5 min
My new home of West Asheville is in the news. A local coffee shop, Waking Life Espresso, closed its doors after its owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens were outed for hosting a misogynistic blog. In addition to repulsive and degrading comments about women and details of...
Charles Eisenstein
A timely and emotional debut documentary that celebrates Hawaii's most cherished social values, Ola challenges us to rethink what it means to be healthy. Ola (Hawaiian for "life" or "well being") explores the widespread social factors that affect our ability to create...
69 min
The Healing Power of Listening in Stillness
Jonathan Davis
1. When the people you love hurt you
Yasmine Amin
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries.
5 min
“How much of the ugly does it take to substitute for a lack of the beautiful? How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expression of one’s greatness? How much...
Chris Agnos
This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
3 min
A former hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical businessman has purchased the rights to a 62-year-old drug used for treating life-threatening parasitic infections and raised the price overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750.
According t
Tom Boggioni
“Despite it all, I loved him – and that love was not enough.” How can you tell if your partner is healthy for you? Here's some guidance that can help.
Melissa A. Fabello
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy
Patricia Tashiro
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
John Ahni Schertow
When Arizona Sen. John McCain met with the Navajo Nation’s tribal government earlier this month at their capital in Window Rock, Arizona, after arriving in a big black SUV, he believed he would be spending the day observing the commemoration of Code Talkers Day. This was not...
William Rivers Pitt
Rule 1: There is no man box.
Derrick Jensen
Transgender healthcare access is crucial for trans people to live and be themselves, but trans people are frequently marginalized in so many ways, including equal access to healthcare. This film covers the current issues faced by trans people in the US. Please watch, like...
6 min
There’s a misconception that abusive partners always use physical violence, which can make it hard to tell if your partner’s abusive.
Emma Rust
Set in the world of a spoofed prescription drug commercial, Nature Rx offers a hearty dose of laughs and the outdoors - two timeless prescriptions for whatever ails you. Side effects may include confidence, authenticity, remembering you have a body, and being in a good mood...
2 min
While we live in a highly sexualized society, the messaging around female sexuality is distorted and rife with shame. What women should look like, who women should want, what women should desire...in fact, who women should be, is dictated to us from screens and pages and people.
3 min
This summer, St. Luke’s Hospital started sending all new moms home from the hospital with a basket of fresh produce, recipes and literature about the importance of a healthy diet.
All of the produce in the basket was grown on an organic farm on the hospital’s Anderson campus...
Jodi Helmer
A pop-up shop selling placebo pills for “first-world problems” just opened its doors in Amsterdam on June 7th. A Netherlands-based fund created the campaign to raise money for very real problems facing millions who cannot access AIDS medications.
1 min
"Red Path premiered at the Unmentionables Film Festival in New York, a festival dedicated to breaking taboos and this first year the taboo was menstruation.
I truly believe t
7 min
The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it.
As a budding cultural ecologist...
Sarah Levine
How industrial-scale farming is actually becoming anti-science.
Vandana Shiva
1. They aren’t going to just throw down.
Instead, they’re committed to helping one another overcome problems and conflicts. Simply being mad at the person won’t resolve anything.
2. They focus on the problem, not its embodiment.
They keep in mind that a relationship is...
Higher Perspective
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can make everything from Deodorant to Sunscreen using Coconut Oil as the main ingredient. We have compiled ten different recipes in this Infographic as a guide for homemade personal care products.
Health Perch
This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Perhaps you recall Republican state Senator Todd Gardenhire (R-Tenn.), apparently unfamiliar with camera phones, getting caught on film calling an uninsured activist in Tennessee an “a-hole.” Gardenhire had
2 min
Nature Therapy is a video project to bring the serenity of the natural world into the home or healing environment to provide a more tranquil experience.
30 min
Most of us will experience a mental health difficulty like depression, anxiety or addiction during our lives. And at some point, most of us will have a friend or family member who is mentally unwell.
Meg John Barker
Is there a belief about the Universe or about ourselves that causes all of the conflict in the world?
Chris Agnos
You don't have infinite money. Spend it on stuff that research says makes you happy.
Jay Cassano
If you’re suffering from ‘affluenza’ it’s time to recognize that you’re sick.
Darrin Drda
“The three most destructive words that every man receives when he’s a boy is when he’s told to 'be a man,'” —Joe Ehrmann, coach and former NFL player
If we are honest with ourselves, we have long known that masculinity kills men, in ways both myriad and measurable. While...
Kali Holloway
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures
Justin Elliott and Laura Sullivan
Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other modern countries, are prisons. Human...
Peter Gray, Ph.D.
GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system...
84 min
Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours. While these societies have had far fewer consumer goods and less of what modernity calls “efficiency,” they also have had far less mental illness. This reality has been buried, not surprisingly, by...
Bruce E. Levine
A controversial film by celebrity journalist Chai Jing investigating China's air pollution problems. Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumor in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air...
104 min
There's a resource curse on the Navajo Nation. The 27,000-square-mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an extremely high abundance of many energy resources — particularly coal. That coal is what's burned to provide much of the Southwest with...
13 min
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
Saddhamala
Put an end to shaming by doing one beautifully simple thing.
Mark Greene
Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.
Mark Greene
We've heard for years about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there have never been recommended limits for sugar on Canadian food labels, despite emerging research that suggests the sweet stuff may be making more of us fat and sick.
42 min
Ground-breaking discoveries about early childhood and the human brain have offered vital clues about the roots of human violence and social disharmony. Our brains’ empathy centres grow – or fail to grow – according to how we are nurtured.
Robin Grille cites several examples...
19 min
THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining...
102 min
‘Think of a world without war, a world of social justice,
a world of ecological sustainability.’
This is how Robin Grille starts his talk at TEDX Pittwater. Robin is a psychologist, author, educator and advocate for children who is not alone in his dream for a better world...
Jacob Devaney
Thanks to tobacco industry regulations and marketing restrictions in the US, smoking rates have dropped dramatically. John Oliver explains how tobacco companies are keeping their business strong overseas.
18 min
Perhaps you should; because they certainly are. But will the changes mean generations plagued with attention disorders and poor social skills or will it boost creativity?
2 min
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues with that.
17 min
Depression, anxiety, and fatigue are an essential part of a process of metamorphosis that is unfolding on the planet today, and highly significant for the light they shed on the transition from an old world to a new.
Charles Eisenstein
Dr. Gabor Maté explains why it is that our culture makes so many of us unhappy, unkind to one another, miserable, alienated from ourselves, etc. Watch the full interview in Part 2.
3 min