How can you decrease stress, sleep more and create more memories?
One of the best ways to feel more centered and calm is to try mindfulness meditation. During COVID, through the UCLA Senior Scholars Program, I took Professor Marvin Belzer’s amazing class on mindfulness meditation at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). MARC has an app called “UCLA Mindful,” which is free and has meditations by Diana Winston, the incredible director of MARC, which I highly recommend. MARC also offers reasonable evening and weekend retreats with renown teachers like Giselle Jones and Matthew Brensilver from SpiritRock.
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We need not know where every decision will lead before taking the first step. Sometimes acting upon our deepest convictions is itself the beginning of wisdom.
New opportunities and challenges have always come and gone. But pulpit clergy with their years of training, education and perspective on life, generated from atop the pulpit, are especially well suited for whatever lies ahead.
The Tower of Babel reminds us how easily language can divide us. Our shared history reminds us of what becomes possible when we find ways to understand one another.
What is especially troubling to me is that at many of these protests in France you will find signs reading “Intifada Revolution” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Arab,” along with ubiquitous Palestinian flags, and Hamas flags too.
As an Iranian-born Jewish American, I cherish the right to participate in choosing our leaders. That means researching candidates, understanding the powers of each office and expecting promises to be matched by follow-through.
Zionism, to me, begins with a decision: to stay and refuse to give up – even when election results disappoint us, even when the government pursues a course we fiercely oppose.
When TV was free, somehow there was always something to watch. It was a very Norman Rockwell experience. The whole family would gather in the living room. The dog was asleep on the woven rug.
The fact that he thinks such a once-radical message will be accepted by the American people speaks volumes as to the challenges that the winner of next week’s Israeli elections will face in the court of American public opinion.
Northern Ireland learned at a terrible price that political agreements alone cannot secure lasting peace while armed terrorist groups remain committed to violence.
Nominated as Book Critic! March 2021: Niver’s News
Lisa Ellen Niver
March News 2021 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
Thank you to the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism awards! I am honored to be a finalist for the NAEJ awards in the category of Book Critic!
Thank you to Girls on The Air for including me in their International Women’s Day show. You can read the transcript and listen to the radio show here.
Thank you to Thrive Global for publishing my article, “Surviving COVID Like a Superhero.”
How can you decrease stress, sleep more and create more memories?
One of the best ways to feel more centered and calm is to try mindfulness meditation. During COVID, through the UCLA Senior Scholars Program, I took Professor Marvin Belzer’s amazing class on mindfulness meditation at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). MARC has an app called “UCLA Mindful,” which is free and has meditations by Diana Winston, the incredible director of MARC, which I highly recommend. MARC also offers reasonable evening and weekend retreats with renown teachers like Giselle Jones and Matthew Brensilver from SpiritRock.
I wanted to share my video, Hula Hooping Gangnam Style with Iwahig Dancing Inmates. YES I DID hula-hoop at a jail in the Philippines.
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over 1.3 million views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,319,065 views) Thank you for your support! Are you one of my 3,050 subscribers? I hope you will join me and subscribe!
For more We Said Go Travel articles, TV segments, videos and social media: CLICK HERE
Find me on social media with over 150,000 followers. Please follow on Twitter at @LisaNiver, Instagram @LisaNiver and on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and at LisaNiver.com.
My fortune cookies said:
“If given a penny for every kind act, you would be a millionaire.”
“You create enthusiasm around you.”
Stay safe and healthy! We will travel again! Lisa
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