As the year is ending soon, many people have started talking about their New Year’s resolutions and the goals/plans they have for the upcoming year. Personally, I’ve never done New Year’s resolutions and it’s not really a concept that works for me. I would rather set resolutions and goals that don’t have a time limit than pressure myself to achieve or do something within a time frame.

I love the idea of setting goals because they allow you to improve yourself and evolve into a better person than you were yesterday but mostly importantly, they give you the opportunity to challenge yourself. Those goals can be habits as well! Incorporating certain habits into your everyday life will not only bring positivity & happiness but they might also help you overcome any obstacles.

Alors que l’année se termine bientôt, de nombreuses personnes ont commencé à parler de leurs résolutions du Nouvel…

The Jerusalem municipality offers a service to selected children at preschools to help them improve their social skills, as I just found out today.

Upon my dropping off our daughter at preschool this morning, the head teacher asked to speak with me and told me that she had selected her as one of seven children to meet twice weekly with a specialist to develop her social skills. She handed me a permission slip, which I will be returning signed to the preschool this afternoon.

We can tell, and the teacher confirmed to me this morning, that our child’s social skills are stronger this year than they were the year before. Still, for all of her innate intelligence, she is often awkward around other children, and there are some likely reasons for this.

First of all, as an only child, our daughter spends a disproportionate amount of time with me and…

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself…

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When we are mindful, we pay deliberate attention , in the present moment, to things as they are rather than to how we wish them to be .We broaden our focus beyond our thoughts , to all of of our senses (hearing, seeing, testing, touching , smelling our emotions and our bodily sensations. Instead of ruminating on the past-which we can’t change, or worrying about the future-things that may or may not ever happen, mindfulness can help keep us grounded in the full experience of the here and now.

This is invaluable . It is only in the present moment that we have an immediate choice about how we are going to respond to whatever situation we are in, or to how we are thinking or feeling.

Mindfulness enables us to pause, instead of falling victim to the endlessly looping tape of our thoughts and feelings. When we…