Passion!

Relationships

The Great Underrated Truth of Love: It’s Scary

Gregg Levoy on November 1, 2024

Intimacy requires that you lower your drawbridge and welcome vulnerability into the castle. This explains why intimacy is scary, and hard work, and demands self-compassion.

Intimacy requires that you lower your drawbridge and welcome vulnerability into the castle. This explains why intimacy is scary, and hard work, and demands self-compassion.

Anxiety

The Big Picture: Aid for Anyone Suffering Election Anxiety

Gregg Levoy on October 3, 2024

Unhooking yourself from the dramas and details of the election—if not the stresses of daily life—is a powerful coping mechanism.

Unhooking yourself from the dramas and details of the election—if not the stresses of daily life—is a powerful coping mechanism.

Grief

The Truth About Getting Closure

Gregg Levoy on August 31, 2024

Finding emotional resolution around a bereavement, breakup, or trauma—finishing unfinished business and moving on with your life—is a process, not an event.

Finding emotional resolution around a bereavement, breakup, or trauma—finishing unfinished business and moving on with your life—is a process, not an event.

Mindfulness

How to Resolve the Tug-of-War Between Doing and Being

Gregg Levoy on July 31, 2024

Personal Perspective: The dialectic between being and doing can be summed up by a question: Are you a human being or a human doing?

Personal Perspective: The dialectic between being and doing can be summed up by a question: Are you a human being or a human doing?

Spirituality

How to Sustain a (Spiritual) High

Gregg Levoy on July 2, 2024

Anyone can get high. But bringing the wisdom of your highs, epiphanies, and revelations into ordinary life is where the real pick-and-shovel work of growing and evolving happens.

Anyone can get high. But bringing the wisdom of your highs, epiphanies, and revelations into ordinary life is where the real pick-and-shovel work of growing and evolving happens.

Attention

What Animal Tracking Can Teach You About Self-Awareness

Gregg Levoy on June 1, 2024

Animal tracks are like signs of any kind—they point to something, lead to something. Here’s how the art of tracking can help you become a more mindful tracker of your own life.

Animal tracks are like signs of any kind—they point to something, lead to something. Here’s how the art of tracking can help you become a more mindful tracker of your own life.

Motivation

When the Search for a Sense of Purpose Turns on You

Gregg Levoy on May 2, 2024

There are benefits and drawbacks to a sense of life-purpose. It can become a form of striving and stress. How do you navigate a call to relinquish the driving force of purpose?

There are benefits and drawbacks to a sense of life-purpose. It can become a form of striving and stress. How do you navigate a call to relinquish the driving force of purpose?

Creativity

How Limits Aid Growth

Gregg Levoy on April 3, 2024

Limitations can clearly impede growth and there are real limitations in the world—poverty, discrimination, and disability—but limitations can also induce growth.

Limitations can clearly impede growth and there are real limitations in the world—poverty, discrimination, and disability—but limitations can also induce growth.

Boundaries

The Key to Handling Over-Talkers: Speak Up Rather Than Avoid

Gregg Levoy on March 1, 2024

Personal Perspective: Most of us know how it feels to be on the receiving end of someone over-talking. Here are some tactics for taking care of yourself in these situations.

Personal Perspective: Most of us know how it feels to be on the receiving end of someone over-talking. Here are some tactics for taking care of yourself in these situations.

Loneliness

The Cure for Loneliness Is Solitude

Gregg Levoy on January 31, 2024

Personal Perspective: Sitting with loneliness can change it from loneliness to aloneness to solitude, from negative to neutral to positive.

Personal Perspective: Sitting with loneliness can change it from loneliness to aloneness to solitude, from negative to neutral to positive.

Flow

Winging It: The Importance of Spontaneity

Gregg Levoy on January 1, 2024

Personal Perspective: We don’t just crave familiarity and predictability but also their opposites—spontaneity, novelty, discovery, surprise, and passion.

Personal Perspective: We don’t just crave familiarity and predictability but also their opposites—spontaneity, novelty, discovery, surprise, and passion.

Attention

Listening to Your Symptoms Is Listening to Your Soul

Gregg Levoy on December 2, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Symptoms—physical or behavioral—are one of the languages the soul uses to get through to you, to convey something about itself. Listen to the messages.

A Personal Perspective: Symptoms—physical or behavioral—are one of the languages the soul uses to get through to you, to convey something about itself. Listen to the messages.

Spirituality

The Value of Looking at Long-Distance Views

Gregg Levoy on October 30, 2023

Personal Perspective: Here are the health-giving benefits of taking in long views, panoramic vistas, and wide open spaces.

Personal Perspective: Here are the health-giving benefits of taking in long views, panoramic vistas, and wide open spaces.

Aging

In Retirement, Don’t Rush to Redesign Your Life—Listen to It

Gregg Levoy on October 1, 2023

Retirement can pack quite a punch in terms of your sense of identity, purpose and meaning. But don't rush to redesign your life. Take time to listen to it.

Retirement can pack quite a punch in terms of your sense of identity, purpose and meaning. But don't rush to redesign your life. Take time to listen to it.

Growth Mindset

The Upside and the Downside of the Comfort Zone

Gregg Levoy on September 1, 2023

Safety and security are vital, but only up to a point. Here's how to know when you've reached that point.

Safety and security are vital, but only up to a point. Here's how to know when you've reached that point.

Fear

Why It's So Hard to Ask for Help

Gregg Levoy on August 1, 2023

The key to a successful request for help is telling others exactly what you need. If you don’t specify, they're likely to try to diagnose what sort of help you seem to need.

The key to a successful request for help is telling others exactly what you need. If you don’t specify, they're likely to try to diagnose what sort of help you seem to need.

Relationships

Beyond Words: The Power of Eye-Gazing

Gregg Levoy on June 30, 2023

The mutual gaze is a powerful way to connect with others, and get to know yourself, and it takes courage. Here are the ups and downs of it.

The mutual gaze is a powerful way to connect with others, and get to know yourself, and it takes courage. Here are the ups and downs of it.

Stress

Intermittent News Fasting Is Good for Your Health

Gregg Levoy on June 1, 2023

The greater your news consumption, the greater your exposure to mental and physical stress. Here’s how to reduce your intake.

The greater your news consumption, the greater your exposure to mental and physical stress. Here’s how to reduce your intake.

Forgiveness

The Truth About “I Statements”

Gregg Levoy on May 2, 2023

The popular formula of making I-statements rather than you-statements can lessen defensive reactions, but they can still backfire. Here's how to minimize that possibility.

The popular formula of making I-statements rather than you-statements can lessen defensive reactions, but they can still backfire. Here's how to minimize that possibility.

Authenticity

The Power of Stepping Into the Unknown

Gregg Levoy on April 4, 2023

A Personal Perspective: In hanging on to the familiar, we have what’s familiar. In letting go, we surrender ourselves to whatever comes next.

A Personal Perspective: In hanging on to the familiar, we have what’s familiar. In letting go, we surrender ourselves to whatever comes next.