Blog Archive

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/536564490382354/ Audio Synopsis Where’s your mind? Ancient Greeks believed that the mind—the center of consciousness, is located NOT in your head but, rather, throughout your entire body. Therefore, to relax the mind we need to relax ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/642741979635999/ Synopsis Have you noticed that when a group of people sits around a campfire they tend to stare glaze-eyed into the flames? There’s something so captivating about fire and it’s the key to a simple ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/673785506719268/ Synopsis What is meditation? It’s mental exercise. Meditation makes your mind stronger and puts your thoughts under your control so you can direct the infinite resources of your brain to create the life you desire ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/210826500017620/ Synopsis None of us knows how long the pandemic is going to endure but we all know that it will come to an end. How will you emerge? Will you be more fit and happier? ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/503713706964983/ Synopsis One of the great benefits I’m seeing during this time of isolation is that there seems to be an epidemic of forgiveness going on. People (typically family members) who have held grudges for decades ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/260232255001888/ Synopsis During the Black Death pandemic of the 14th century, Venetian officials refused to allow newly-arriving sailors to disembark for a period of 40 days (“quaranta giorni” in Latin) to make sure no one on ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/562315311061355/ Synopsis People who are self-obsessed tend to complain more because their focus is on how the world’s events affect them rather than on how others are being affected. It seems contradictory but putting our focus ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/807509506413701/ Synopsis We, as human beings, have social NEEDS. They’re not “wants” they’re NEEDS and when we socially distance it brings up an existential threat to our basic human nature. Social distancing saves lives, but it ...

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/554855405386418/ Synopsis What I discovered from talking to people – – while standing 6 feet apart, is that living through this pandemic bears a lot of similarities to living through a hurricane. Today I’m going to ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS OK, sometimes I have perhaps too much time on my hands to ponder things. But, I think you’ll find today’s JumpStart quite revealing (and possibly life-changing). Today, let’s explore how our body seems to ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS It’s every parent’s nightmare—and I lived it. You round the corner pulling onto the highway and there flipped on its side and smoldering is your child’s car. This happened to me one snowy Kansas ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS Which is better, to be smart or to be kind? For decades I THOUGHT I knew the answer to this question — but, I was wrong. I actually found the correct answer by re-watching ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS If I called you on your cellphone right now, what would you hear? Some generic little ringtone created by someone who works for the company who built your phone? Or, is your ringtone a ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS The other day someone pointed out something I do unconsciously that helps me and others put a positive spin on things. We all experience pain, suffering, disappointment, and even minor irritation on a daily ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS The more I study the life of Fred Rogers the more I appreciate and admire this man who taught many of us that we’re special “Just the way we are.” You might  be surprised ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS You’ve heard about the gunfight at the OK Coral, right? The Earps and Clantons squared off in this historic gunfight leaving many of them dead of dying. But, there’s a lot more to this ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS “If angry, count to 10.  If very angry, count to 100.” – Thomas Jefferson Have you noticed that once you become angry about something that it’s very easy to remain angry? In other words, ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS My mom was the queen of cliche’s. “Look before you leap” was one of her favorites and although it bugged me as an impetuous kid, I see great wisdom in her words now. How ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS Ok, I’m still on my Mr. Rogers kick and I’m glad so many of you are commenting on these JumpStarts about this amazing man who came into so many of our lives and taught ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS Many of you know that I’m going through a divorce right now. Yup. It’s very painful and truly a grieving process (I bounce back and forth through Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s steps in the grieving process ...

AUDIO SYNOPSIS Sometimes, developing habits that support the life we want to live can be difficult. Especially if you’re a highly functioning person. You want to exercise, meditate, work,  be with family and friends and then…well, ...