Bad manners go viral …

I hesitate to even complain about this because, to be honest, I’d be a hypocrite if I claimed I am always prompt and civil myself. Still, I think something should be said, even if I am a poor choice for spokesperson.

Carrier Slocomb

What’s my rant? That double standard we all seem to embrace when it comes to our devices!

I know every generation mourns this, so I’m not claiming we boomers own this position, but is it me or have common courtesy and basic manners gone to the pigs in our lifetime? I’m talking about current email, voice, and texting etiquette.
Pardon my html, but bad manners have really gone viral!

If I didn’t know better, I’d say we still live in the old phone-on-the-wall era, but we don’t. Phones exist in pockets, purses, or hanging off ears. We never miss a call — we’re just being selective. Define bad manners with, “I sent you a text hours ago; you didn’t get it?” Or, “My email went through, but she hasn’t replied in three days?”

How can you ignore, “Heading to ER now?”

How can anyone ignore these texts or voices, but we do. Why?

Sorry, but we used that lame excuse last time.

Look around. Smell the air. Listen to the breezes. Manners and common courtesy can’t compete in a world humming with 24/7 electronic efficiency. Maybe that’s why our disorganized traits, careless ways, and jealousies become more emphasized with every jump in technology. Consider this headline: “Efficient systems expose emotional humans.”

What was it like before? Businessmen on their mobile phones nonstop in Rome.

So what are we left with? What should we attach our names to? Especially those of us who send and receive ten texts in two minutes, or instantaneously complete business transactions, correct difficult applications, and say “I love you” on our devices all the while totally ignoring human life around us? The sad reality is, nothing can make us be nice, efficient or loving when we don’t want to be, so we put off sending a reply.

It’s strange to think this, but here’s a hint about where bad manners may have led us. We call for an auto insurance quote, and no matter our dissed mood, the company rep is perky and helpful. It’s 3 AM, and we’ve got an online order complaint. Our sour approach notwithstanding, this new rep is attentive, efficient, and reliable. Isn’t it clear? Devoid elsewhere, prompt and courteous manners now rule most 24/7 online businesses.

Once free for the taking, we now pay distant strangers to treat us courteously. We pay them not to ignore us, to spare us any lame excuses. As you can guess, there’s an indirect pricetag attached, in the form of a short questionnaire concluding every transaction.

Ask yourself this: “Isn’t this service rating system actually incentivized courtesy, like we’ve stooped so low we’re buying good manners from some company rep?” Yes? Oh well, who says you can’t buy your friends?! Helluva system, what?

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The marketplace for technology for baby boomers is expected to grow sharply from $2 billion today to more than $20 billion by 2020. I’m often asked about 50+ technology, so I thought I would share a few of the most frequently asked questions.

1. What products are available for baby boomers who forget to take their medications?

A ton of new products and services have recently been introduced to the market to not only prompt patients to take their medications on time but also in the correct dosages.

Walgreens Rx App – This pill reminder aims to help pharmacy customers track their medication schedules and receive alerts. The alerts can be scheduled nine different ways, including daily, hourly, weekly.

Vitality’s AT&T connected GlowCaps – These caps fit on standard prescription bottles and use light and sound reminders, which can be followed by a phone call or text message. Each time the pill bottle is opened adherence data is recorded and used to compile periodic progress.

The Philips Medication Dispenser.

The Philips Medication Dispenser – This is an electronic voice output medication reminder and dispenser. Medications are placed in a one-ounce plastic cup, loaded in the dispenser and administered as scheduled.

2. Is there any innovative technology available for folks who might need to reach help in the case of an emergency?

Here is one of my favorite examples of advanced technology in the lifestyle, communications and emergency monitoring space:

BeClose – The device tracks one’s daily routine via discreet wireless sensors that are placed around the home (as well as a wearable alert button).

3. What are some examples of a few additional products boomers should look to purchase that may make their lives easier?

The Jawbone UP

Health, leisure and socialization are all areas that boomer technology companies are focused on – here are some more great tech gadgets for baby boomers!

Jawbone UP – UP is the app-powered wristband that inspires you to feel better and live healthier. The wristband measures activity, sleep and nutrition and downloads all the data collected to an app on your smartphone.

The IDEAL LIFE Body-Manager™ – This scale is designed for both weight-conscious individuals and patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). The IDEAL LIFE Body-Manager is a body weight scale that measures weight and automatically stores and sends the information to a user’s healthcare team.

Dr. Alexia Abramson

Bionic™ Relief Grip Golf Gloves – These are the only gloves designed by a leading orthopedic hand specialist for enhanced comfort, fit, and performance. The anatomical pad system provides a more secure grip with less effort, to reduce pain and hand fatigue for those with arthritis.

Follow Dr. Alexis online.

Disclaimer: Content and suggestions provided within should not be construed as a formal recommendation. BoomerCafé.com and AJA Associates, LLC make no representations, endorsements or warranties relating to the accuracy, use or completeness of the information.

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I usually write about my father on St. Patrick’s Day, odd since his name was Sam, and we have no Irish ancestors. But he took his first step onto American soil on St. Patrick’s Day, 1915, age four, greeted by a parade after having been quarantined on Ellis Island until doctors determined that the missing digit on my grandmother’s finger resulted from injury not leprosy. Told by his mother that the celebration was in their honor, he continued all his life to mark St. Patrick’s Day as his own, wearing a Shamrock and eating (kosher) corned beef and cabbage.

Sam Paznik

We didn’t spend time together, but one day stands out in memory — the day he took me to register to vote. He stayed home from work but appeared in the kitchen in a suit and tie. We drove to an office building in a part of Queens I’d never been to and waited on plastic chairs. He was uncharacteristically quiet in room full of strangers. When I was called to the counter, he rose with me as I surrendered my birth certificate for inspection. As I filled out the required paperwork, he leaned down and said into my ear, “This is the most important day of your life.”

Jane Paznik-Bondarin, writer and professor.

Really, Pop? It was 1964, I was eighteen, a sophomore in college. Although enmeshed in the campus civil rights movement, I was also besotted by a handsome classmate named Chuck. “Today you assume the responsibility of being an American,” my father continued, and the man on the other side of the counter nodded his approval. “Voting is not a privilege, it’s a duty you are required to fulfill every year. Remember that.” The man on the other side of the counter nodded again.

I do, and I have. So far. Voted, that is, every year, and when I do, my dad is beside me. He loved this country with the loyalty of the immigrant boy seeing his first parade. He listened to my lefty political ranting from the 60s until he died in 1991 and then reminded me there “is no place better.”

In a few months the spirit of my father will impel me into a voting booth, despite deep misgivings about the culture’s drift. This Father’s Day I miss my dad more than ever and need him to help me recapture the faith in the country he so loved.

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Harriet Shenkman

He waltzed me to bed singing,
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Rode the subway from the tip of Brooklyn
to a shoe factory in Long Island City,
It’s a long way to Tipperary.

Why do the waves go back in the ocean?
Why does Hitler want a final solution?
Y is a crooked letter.

Anti-war protests, government
scandal, the missile crisis,
America will never go under.

He stopped little children on the street,
lifting them to guess their weight.
I see said the blind man.

A cone-shaped party hat, elastic
band under his chin, he and
the boys blowing out candles,
I’m tickled pink.

A ripe cantaloupe,
a corned beef sandwich, me
in my satin-lined college hood,
The best there is.

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As baby boomers approach retirement age, they are expected to completely change the face of the U.S. healthcare system, mainly due to their additional medical needs, compared to previous generations.

According to a recent infographic put together by Concordia University with data from government sources, it turns out that the average American over 65 has multiple chronic conditions, including hypertension (72 percent), arthritis (51 percent), heart disease (31 percent), cancer (24 percent) and diabetes (20 percent), accounting for one third of all healthcare spending in America. Furthermore, they spend an extra $1,456 out-of-pocket for insurance, medical services, medications and supplies.

In the meantime, healthcare providers are busy growing their senior care infrastructure in preparation for the next wave of baby boomers expected to resort to medical services in the near future. By 2020, an estimated 5.6 million healthcare jobs will be created to accommodate seniors’ increasing needs, in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, nursing care facilities, community care facilities for the elderly, and home healthcare services.

Here are all the findings Concordia University’s infographic reveals:

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Whether you have kids or grandkids, nieces or nephews, or cute little neighbors next door, you’ve probably sat kids down and told them a story. Alex Bugaeff has gone one step further: he wrote a book about telling kids a story (which just won an award in this year’s New York Book Festival). Here’s an excerpt from Pilgrims to Patriots: A Grandfather Tells The Story.

My name is “Gomps” and I’m a Boomer and a grandfather. Every Wednesday night for the past four months I had been telling my grandchildren, Hannah, 11, and Carter, 9, the story of our nation’s Founding. By this time, I was into the French and Indian War. It was Wednesday night again and we had finished dinner.

Alex Bugaeff

“Last week, I promised to tell you the story of the Indian Prophecy,” I began.

“What’s a prophecy?” Carter asked.

“Carter, you know,” said Hannah. “It’s when someone predicts the future.”

“Oh, yeah,” said Carter.

“So,” I said, “during a battle with the French in western Pennsylvania, an Indian chief on the French side had seen George Washington rallying his troops from horseback with bullets whizzing all around him. Miraculously, Washington was not hit.

“Then, about 15 years later, the chief met with Washington and a group of colonists who were trying to settle an argument over the ownership of land in that area. The chief had a council fire one night to talk with the colonists about his tribe’s views on the matter. Suddenly, he stood up and gave a speech.

“The chief said that he had been the one in charge of the Indians who had fought the English in that battle. He had gotten all his sharpshooters to aim at Washington, but none could hit him. He said, ‘A power mightier than we shielded him from harm. He cannot die in battle.’

“Then, the chief said that he himself was going to die soon, but he wanted to say something ‘. . . in the voice of prophecy.’ ‘The Great Spirit protects that man [pointing to Washington]’ he said, ‘and guides his destinies-– he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire!’”

“No way!” exclaimed Hannah. “How do you know he said that?”

“Well, Washington made no mention of it himself,” I said. “That shouldn’t surprise us because of his humility. But others who were there wrote it down in letters and reports and told the story frequently after that.

“So that’s the Indian Prophecy. What do you think?”

“Sounds iffy to me,” said Hannah.

“It coulda happened,” Carter said.

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There are two things Americans approaching retirement age should be thinking about: how long they’re likely to live and how much they’ll have to live on.

A recent study by Bankers Life Center for a Secure Retirement (CSR) found that while declining health is the No. 1 longevity concern for middle-income Americans, statistics suggest they ought to be taking more steps to avoid outliving their money.

Long Life Expectancy

Consider these facts from the Social Security Administration: The average 65-year-old has a life expectancy of 19 more years. One out of every four will live past age 90 and one in 10, past 95.

The CSR study, Longevity Risk and Reward for Middle-Income Americans, asked people ages 55 to 75 how they plan to deal with shortfalls in retirement income. Their replies:

• Reduce spending (63 percent)
• Get a part-time job in retirement (41 percent)
• Sell my house (25 percent)
• Give less money to children/ grandchildren (24 percent)
• Don’t plan to do anything (15 percent).

Will The Money Last?

Four in 10 admit their retirement savings may not last until the end of their life. More than half have saved less than $100,000 for retirement. Most are relying heavily on Social Security, yet many don’t understand it. One in three don’t know that delaying when they start to collect Social Security benefits can increase their future benefit amount. Furthermore, nearly half incorrectly believe that an annual cost-of-living increase to their Social Security benefits is guaranteed and 36 percent falsely believe that full Social Security benefits start with their 65th birthday.

Expert Advice

To increase your chances of a good quality of life in your golden years, consider these five steps:

1. Know your full retirement age. Anyone born between 1943 and 1954, your full retirement age is 66. For those born after 1960, it’s 67.
2. Work as long as you are able.
3. Delay Social Security benefits as long as you can. Waiting until you’re 70 to collect Social Security could increase your payments by as much as a third.
4. Practice healthy living. Eat right, stay fit and see your doctor regularly.
5. Consider speaking to a professional retirement adviser. Social Security was never meant to be your sole source of retirement income.

Learn More

The full report is at CenterForASecureRetirement.com. For more about Social Security benefits, visit SocialSecurity.gov.

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It was in a film class in the mid-seventies at the University of Colorado Denver, that I met this hulking, bearded guy, Gary Reilly. It was not a course in the study of cinema; this was class on the making of movies. When the instructor asked us in turn to state our interests, I said, “Animation!” Gary’s head snapped around and his blue eyes zeroed in on me.

Gary Reilly

That was the first area of common interest we found. Our backgrounds were similar. We both came from Irish-Catholic families of less-than-modest means. He and I were both Vietnam-era vets: Gary an Army MP in Saigon, me a Marine Corps MP in Bremerton, Washington, during the anti-war demonstrations. We were both milking the GI bill for all it was worth.

Armed with Super-8 cameras, Gary and I collaborated on several animated films. Our first was a labor-intensive, cut-out piece called Transylvania Toothache about a vampire with dental problems. The Denver International Film Festival featured our low-budget second effort called, simply, “A.M.”

We became friends.

We both shared an interest in literature. I learned that his first love was fiction. Writing. He’d penned a number of novels by the time he was in his late twenties. I read several of the manuscripts and thought: this man has talent.

Mark Keefe

He also had a sense of humor and I thought he was an ideal contributor to a site I was developing on AOL in the mid-nineties with my wife, Anita. We created an online advice column. Gary, in the persona of a Denver taxi driver, was the dispenser of wisdom. He called himself Murph. In the real world, he’d had years of experience behind the wheel of a Yellow Cab, so the banter came naturally. The feature was incredibly popular. In the two years that the site ran on AOL, Gary generated a million words of give-and-take with his followers.

When that gig ended, Gary relocated Murph to comic fiction. He wrote stories starring his bohemian, minimalist cabbie trying his best not to get involved in the muddled lives of his passengers. And failing. That simple formula generated eleven hilarious novels.

All the while he was writing serious pieces of fiction. Some based on his Vietnam experience, others more experimental. Noir. Science Fiction. In one novel, Jeremy Bannister, the sentence count in every chapter is exactly the same.

I introduced Gary to my friend, Mark Stevens, who was a former reporter at The Denver Post and a fiction writer himself. The two of them met regularly, calling their meetings at a downtown coffee shop the Europa State University sessions. Gary helped Mark shape and fine-tune his writing. The result: Mark Stevens has published two critically-acclaimed and popular thrillers set on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies. The second is dedicated to Gary.

Mark Stevens, writer.

Mark was quick to understand the treasure that was Gary’s fiction. He and I both tried to persuade him to pursue publication. But Gary was resistant. He wanted to continue fine-tuning before he made the big push.

Then, in 2010, Gary was diagnosed with cancer. Too late, he began to send out queries, but without enough time for success … because he died in 2011.

For such a prolific writer, Gary’s will was remarkably terse. Three short sentences. One line allowed Mark and me to do anything we desired to see the publication of his writing.

This, we have done. We formed Running Meter Press with the sole purpose of publishing the writings of our talented friend, Gary Reilly. Along the way, not so surprising, a mainstream outfit out of Boulder, Colorado — Big Earth Publishing — has partnered with us to distribute Gary’s work.

So far, the first three in the Murph series have landed on bookshelves across the country. All have become local bestsellers and the second of the three, Ticket to Hollywood, is a finalist for a 2013 Colorado Book Award in genre fiction.

Wish Gary were here to see it.

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Memo to young families: When you’re involved in activities with your kids, also pay attention to other parents as the years pass. You’ll see them again. My kids are in their twenties now, but for one pre-school birthday party we invited kids and moms from the class.

David Gillaspie

I was too busy on the ‘entertainment’ side and didn’t notice the adults. Working the fishing hole with a clothespin hook, the wheelbarrow rides, and the rest of what it took to keep the crowd of four-year-olds moving wasn’t easy.

 
Ten years later my kids joined the high school wrestling team and one of the moms mentioned that long-ago pre-school birthday party. They turned into family friends.

Since then my kids have graduated from high school and college, and the youngest of these friends finishes high school next month. Like boomers everywhere, we talk about the next move when we get together, except, this couple does more than talk.

When they started planning their next move, it seemed impossible. Who moves from a 4,200-square-foot house they’d planned and built with an unobstructed view of Oregon’s Mt. Hood, a three-stall garage with one floor done in racetrack-style black and white checkerboard tile, and an outdoor hot water faucet?

A boomer house.

From their southwest suburban dream house, they planned and built the ultimate city house. They traded the cars they’d used to go everywhere for a walking inner-southeast Portland neighborhood with a bicycle option. How did they make the right decision look so easy? How can you?

First, look at the trends in your city. Districts on the way up attract new businesses and new people and new fun. Areas on the way down lose residents and businesses looking for a better life. Get used to a downer attitude on those streets. Move to areas that don’t change? You’ll always be the new people and you won’t meet your neighbors.

Once you find the right fit for your active boomer lifestyle, check the longterm public transportation plans. How far away is the city bus stop? Is light rail in the new neighborhood’s future? Trolley cars? If you notice a new pedestrian/bike bridge, and a new light rail bridge spanning the river to serve the neighborhood, you’ve made the right pick.

Finally, what sort of house will you live in? My boomer friend’s place is the result of hard-won experience. Their new house fits the neighborhood visually, but the technology is 21st Century. For the rainy Oregon weather, they chose fiber cement siding with an air gap to allow drying instead of mildew. They installed hot water on demand instead of a hot water heater along with a futuristic heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system system. To top it off, the house has an outdoor hot water faucet outside the garage.

The beloved rock ‘n roll drum set.

For everything new in their lives, the new house still feels familiar. On moving day, while unpacking and assembling the household, a complete rock-and-roll drum kit took shape in the music room. If that seems odd, remember that boomers marched to a different beat from the beginning. That never changes.

David is a Baby Boomer blogger at boomerpdx.com and a contributing sports columnist with oregonsportsnews.com.
 

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By Edward Lapham for Automotive News

In this era of Millennial Madness, when many people you meet in the workplace think of Star Wars as an old movie, it is gratifying that General Motors recruited about 160 retirees on a contract basis to help with a number of projects, including launching the redesigned Chevrolet and GMC full-sized pickups.

Those of us who took our kids to a 2-D movie theater to watch the exploits of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo remember that this is not the first time an automaker has been that clever.

For example, in the late 1970s, when wolves and scavengers were circling the old Chrysler Corp.’s ancestral corporate headquarters in Highland Park, Mich., that company caused thousands of white-collar employees to be laid off or take early retirement. Once the workers were off the books and no longer part of Chrysler’s overhead cost structure, many of the recently departed were tapped to come back and do their old jobs as per-diem consultants.

A year or two after that, John DeLorean used retired Ford manufacturing engineers as consultants to get his stainless steel sports car into production in Belfast, Northern Ireland — when Lotus and DeLorean engineers couldn’t get the job done by themselves.

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Desperate times demand desperate measures, as Shakespeare well knew: “Once more unto the breech, dear friends, once more.”

Still, GM‘s recent coup in mustering retirees is a little different.

Rather than going back to the same old jobs they were doing before the downturn disrupted the industry, many of the retirees are serving as coaches and mentors to current GM employees, working with suppliers to ensure a smooth flow of parts for startup projects or running an internship program for Detroit-area teens.

They’re needed. And they’re using their knowledge, skills and wisdom to help their former employer — and themselves. That’s a symbiotic relationship.

It is easy to understand how not every retiree would want to go back to work.

But it’s also easy to see how it could be fulfilling to assist a company that was like extended family or stay part of an industry you love or just share a lifetime’s experience instead of letting it wither.

Almost certainly, many of the retirees heeded GM’s call to have an adventure, not because they needed the money or didn’t have anything else to do.

But for some, it may have been as simple as just wanting to be wanted again.

That’s OK, too.

You may e-mail Edward Lapham at elapham@crain.com

Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20130603/OEM02/306039962#ixzz2VNRv60ON
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Standing at the south rim of the mighty Grand Canyon in Arizona, I reflected on my reasons for being here. Perhaps it sounds a bit spiritual but I felt a purpose in being drawn back to view the immensity of one of the most remarkable places on earth.

It isn’t my first time. I have come to the Canyon several times over four decades, and the place seemingly has not changed. While we live in an ever-increasingly intense and chaotic world, the Canyon’s time clock is measured in millions of years … almost as if the Canyon tells us unequivocally that it was here long before us and will exist long after we are all gone.

David Henderson

My internal urge to return to the Canyon started as I worked in my office in Arlington, Virginia, and listened to the near-constant wail of police, ambulance, and fire sirens … day and night.

The DC area has turned into an environment of abrupt and dishonest behavior, irrational and dangerous recklessness on highways, hostility that plays out in random shootings, and attitudes of selfish entitlement.

My desire to visit the Grand Canyon was not unlike the premise of the motion picture “Grand Canyon” from 20 years ago, when a diverse group of friends in Los Angeles escaped to the solitude of the Canyon. I will always remember a line that Kevin Kline spoke to Danny Glover in that film because it rings as true today as 20 years ago:

“The point is there’s a gulf in this country. An ever-widening abyss between the people who have stuff and the people who don’t have shit. It’s like this big hole in the ground, as big as the f**king Grand Canyon. And what’s come pouring out is an eruption of rage, and the rage creates violence, and the violence is real. Nothing’s gonna make it go away until someone changes something, which is not going to happen.”

But the Grand Canyon can make it go away, at least for a while. Even though visited annually by millions of people from around the world, it’s possible to simply tune-out and watch a large California Condor glide past the cliffs or catch a glint of the Colorado River as it snakes through the Canyon a mile below.

I think as we get older … to this point in our lives … many of us want to isolate ourselves from the rage because nobody’s going to change it. What we seek is more individual solitude and sanity. Certainly I do. Even though I live in the nation’s capital, I want the … well, call it, renewal of spirit and the centeredness that comes from such natural grandeur as the Grand Canyon. Here, I found it.

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All photos ©2013 David Henderson.

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After decades of being a good girl or good boy — getting your education, workingyour job, raising your family, paying your taxes, and pleasing social standards — it is time to get introduced to the real you. The real you was, is, and will always be behind any mask, role, or impression you take on. Your authentic self has a deep soul, rich experiences, and much to express. Take time to get to know the real you and to distinguish yourself from the image you created.

Suna Senman

Once you learn about your authentic self, you might find things that you do, and don’t, like. Fortunately, you are the one person whom you can create and recreate — unlike the children,spouse, or work partners you may have tried to mold!

As you move through your busy life, which is full of distractions and outside influences, you easily can lose sight of who you are. Your sense of self is most likely a combination of your true self and the masks, roles, and impressions you have layered on top. Your authentic self is nestled within your creations, relationships, and surrounding environment. You can find and reclaim this self, no matter how long you have felt disconnected from him or her.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Your core being yearns to manifest your heart’s calling. Your true self is harmonious with natural life. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed the opposite of the true self this way: “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” Your true self has purpose and passion. Allowing your true self to come forward is stepping into genuine living.

The first step to becoming the person you really like is seeing clearly where and who you are now. Initially, distinguishing between the genuine self and “other self” can seem puzzling. Yet to create the most meaningful life with the time you have left, knowing who you actually are now is your starting point for reaching the fulfillment of a good life. Like a scientist, start with observing yourself in solitude, with others, and instressful situations.

Following is a guideline for this observation:

1. Get quiet. The best thing is to get into nature. If not, find a quiet spot.
2. Bring your focus to the space behind your eyes. Experience “seeing” from behind your eyes.
3. Listen to your breath; experience “hearing” behind your throat.
4. Observe all that you can see, hear, feel, etc., like a newborn baby.
5. Remain in the experience of newness for at least five minutes, or even longer if you can.

For decades, you might have molded yourself to other people’s expectations, so that this behavior has become your default approach to life. By observing your genuine thoughts and feelings, however, you can become aware of and, over time, break your habit of conformity – ultimately inviting your authentic self to step into the driver’s seat of your life.

Suna Senman LMSW, CSW, CTIM, CED is a life transformation facilitator who specializes in wellness counseling, childhood development, peace education, and diversity training. She blogs on topic for The Huffington Post; she has published articles on topic in periodicals such as Metro; and she is the author of Being: A Process. Through her work, Suna helps people expand their sense of self, release their illusion of separation, develop nurturing partnerships, and consciously design a harmonious life path. Her writing has included interviews with supermodel Tyra Banks, celebrity violinist Miri Ben Ari, and relationship expert Paul Brunson. Suna has a new book coming out in August, called , Peace: Discovering Life’s Harmony through Relationships. http://www.sunasenman.com/

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