by Sunada Takagi | Jun 4, 2010 | Personal change, Social change
This is a great 10-minute video that debunks the traditional notion that money incents us to work harder and better. When the task at hand calls for creativity and conceptual thinking, offers of money actually make us do WORSE! Fascinating stuff. And lots of...
by Sunada Takagi | Mar 23, 2010 | Personal change
Most of us probably think of the practice of compassion as synonymous with altruism. Giving. Helping. Being of service. Sunada flips that idea on its head — that it may be just as important to be vulnerable as it is to be strong, and to receive as it is to give. We...
by Sunada Takagi | Feb 22, 2010 | Personal change
It’s important to note that when the Buddha taught how to practice compassion, he always began with ourselves. This isn’t selfish. After all, if we can’t trust and open our hearts to ourselves – the one person on this earth that we know the best and are closest to –...
by Sunada Takagi | Jan 27, 2010 | Personal change, Social change
Climate change. The economic downturn. Terrorism. And now there’s Haiti. A client and I were conversing recently about the mess our world is in. She was feeling overwhelmed. How do we, as individuals, respond in the face of such huge problems? I won’t be so...
by Sunada Takagi | Nov 18, 2009 | Everyday mindfulness, Personal change
This is a fun and funny video of Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) sharing her ideas on creativity. She says that that instead of the rare person “being” a genuis, all of us “have” a genius. And she shares how we might be in...
by Sunada Takagi | Oct 26, 2009 | Everyday mindfulness, Personal change
Fearlessness isn’t the absence of fear, but the ability stay with one’s fear and use its energy wisely. Working with (as opposed to fighting against) our fears can point us toward our own place of freedom. We tend to think of fear as a bad thing. Something that gets...
