Thirty Thousand Days represents the average amount of days a person in North America will live. It reminds us that life is finite and we must use our time wisely. The purpose of our online ezine is to complement our printed journal by offering you guidance, inspiration and practical advice for moving forward in your life. Published by the ToDo Institute, our work is grounded in Japanese Psychology and represents values such as living on purpose, mindfulness, gratitude, compassion and striving to live a meaningful life even as we are constantly subject to distraction.
"Life is a matter of attention. Your experience of life is not based on your life, but on what you attend to."
- Gregg Krech
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 The first two months of the new year are over. How are you doing? Have you moved forward in the areas that are important to you? Are you getting bogged down or stuck in attending to mundane activities and not devoting time to what is truly important. In Emerging from the Sand: How to Stay on Track with What Really Matters, Gregg Krech presents his family's personal system for setting priorities and making sure those priorities get attention.
ToDo Institute Internet Library of Japanese Psychology
(access for ToDo Institute members)
http://www.todoinstitute.com/library/
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Living with Passion (video)
Several years ago Thirty Thousand Days published a wonderful essay by author Isabelle Allende. Recently we found a video of her making a presentation on the theme Living with Passion. Allende is a writer who tells the stories of women and men who live with passionate commitment -- to love, to their world, to an ideal. In this presentation, Allende share some of those stories is a way that is both humorous and inspiring. (18 min).
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/204
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Overcoming By Going Around
This is the strategy Morita therapy offers for dealing with the challenging feeling-states we all face from time to time - depression, fear, anxiety, despair, frustration and even anger. We are generally taught that we must face our problems and confront them directly. But this doesn't work very well when the "problem" is our feeling-state. For this problem, we are better off learning how to "overcome by going around."
http://www.todoinstitute.com/30KDays/ |
The Medicated Child (video)
KIn recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age," child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. "It's a gamble. And I tell parents there's no way to know what's going to work."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/etc/synopsis.html
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