by WillBowen | May 30, 2019 | JumpStarts
SYNOPSIS Like most students drawn to psychology in college, I took Psych classes as a way to try and figure out my own insane family and the craziness I picked up just being a part of it. I still remember one of my first university psych classes when the professor...
by WillBowen | May 29, 2019 | JumpStarts
SYNOPSIS No, I’m not talking about small dishes of Spanish food. As the third of the Hindu Niyamas (thou SHALT do this), Tapas refers to self-discipline — to improving one’s self through deliberate mental, physical, and spiritual practice. Could you imagine what...
by WillBowen | May 28, 2019 | JumpStarts
SYNOPSIS As I’ve said many times before my favorite book of all time is Illusions by Richard Bach. The foreword for the book tells the story of a Messiah preaching to a crowd and the audience becoming so inspired that they swear, en masse, to do anything —...
by WillBowen | May 27, 2019 | JumpStarts
SYNOPSIS As I mentioned in previous JumpStarts, unlike the 10 commandments, which are a list of “Thou Shalt Nots,” the Hindu Yamas tell one what NOT to do and the Niyamas tells us what we SHOULD do. The first Niyama is SAUCHA – be pure. Purity in body, mind,...
by WillBowen | May 24, 2019 | JumpStarts
SYNOPSIS “She’s got that Midas touch” someone says when a coworker scratches off her second winning lottery game card of the week. “Everything she touches turns to gold.” People use King Midas as an example of someone who was very lucky because literally everything he...
by WillBowen | May 23, 2019 | JumpStarts
SYNOPSIS The fourth of the Hindu Yamas is BRAHMACAHRYA — appropriate sexuality. You might be wondering why so many religions put constraints on sexuality. For some, the primary main reason was so that priests could have no legitimate progeny. (I’ll explain why in the...
