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Why Bother To Notice Ourselves? As a yoga teacher, I am always striving toward becoming a better teacher. There are various ways of learning how to improve my skill, but the best way I’ve found to become a better teacher is to attend as many different classes as there are available to me.  Even in…

Why Bother Making Friends With Yourself? Making friends with ourselves is much like making friends with others. Being hospitable with ourselves or others includes speaking kindly, mutual respect and an awareness of needs. We might find that being congenial with ourselves to be more difficult than being affable to others, but it is just as…

Why Bother With an Ounce of Prevention? It was Benjamin Franklin who penned the proverb, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  His pithy saying originated after visiting the city of Boston and observing the preparedness they had in place to put out fires.  In Boston, as opposed to Philadelphia where Franklin…

Why Bother To Do What is Right? Today is the 4th of July, Independence Day. Americans celebrate this day because it marks the approved resolution which declared U.S. independence from Great Britain with a document entitled the Declaration of Independence. This document was drafted and presented by a committee of five men and approved by…