Category Archives: Mind

Secrets of personal transformation: What’s missing from the mind-as-onion metaphor?

By: Rich Liotta ©2010 The onion metaphor has often been used to describe the process of delving into a person’s psyche. Layers are removed to reveal what is beneath, toward the core. The metaphor reflects the many layers that we … Continue reading

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Discovering Nature’s Energy

This post and video are intended to express one way in which nature is part of the broader “community” in which we all live.  All pictures except one were taken in my home territory, the Adirondack Park in northern New York.   … Continue reading

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New Year’s Resolutions vs. Re-solutioning for 2010

As we enter a New Year it is customary and valuable to reflect on where you have been and on where you are going. It is time consider what you want improved in your life, what you want to be … Continue reading

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Marmot Reflections: An Enrichment Meditation

The following video is the first in a planned series of Enrichment Meditations.  Marmot Reflections is a meditation to help you relax and reflect by taking your senses and your imagination somewhere new.  The star is a marmot in its … Continue reading

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Abundance: Appreciating the Wealth of Our Senses

By: Rich Liotta Our senses are our connection to the world. They are the sum and substance of all individual and shared experience. They are necessary to our survival and effectiveness. They are also tools to be utilized to enhance … Continue reading

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Passionate living is adeptly riding the wave of who you are!

By: Rich Liotta Each of us is a wave, a changing, evolving, person maneuvering through life. Who you are includes an array of possibilities, and therefore choice, of what you could pursue or become. Designing your journey, consistent with your … Continue reading

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Delicate Moments, Notice Them!

By: Rich Liotta Delicate moments are wonderful fleeting instances that occur every day of our lives, if we notice them. The linguistic roots of the word “moment” come from the Latin “momentum,” which roughly means moving with power. This says … Continue reading

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Sometimes we run…Part 1

Everything we do is goal directed…our relationship to our goals is important…sometimes we run away from or toward our goals in a variety of ways. Continue reading

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Latent Wisdom: Discovering What You Know

By: Rich Liotta, Ph.D. I believe that most people know more than they acknowledge or utilize effectively in living their lives. This latent wisdom has been alluded to, partially, by various notions including “trust your gut” and “pay attention to … Continue reading

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Hope, Despair, and Doubt

By: Rich Liotta; Musings #2 Hope is the staircase upward to better and brighter times.  It exists somewhere up there in the possibilities you can envision, with clarity perhaps or perhaps simply as an ill-defined beacon calling to you from out … Continue reading

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