My tea bag this morning simply said, "Keep up." This short remark is a blessing in disguise. When we can ‘keep up’ with our responsibilities, our health, our time for ourselves to relax and have fun, our income needs, then indeed we have been blessed. So I pass the blessing on to you. May you […]
A Play-date with Enchantment Using the Past to Your Pleasurable Advantage
A Play-date With Enchantment Using the Past to Your Pleasurable Advantage Here is an exercise that can help you to retrieve positive images and sensations focusing on one or more of your senses. Begin by closing your eyes and listening to the sounds around you. Listen for a few minutes. When you feel drawn to […]
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein shares another recipe for Enchantment
In a little book, A Kindness A Day, I found the following quote: Don’t honk your horn unnecessarily while driving. Now at first you might not think this is a Recipe for Enchantment. But it really is. Can you imagine a world with less loud harsh, unexpected noises? Your own emotions and thoughts would not […]
A Contest Looking for Your Memories of The Truth when You Were a Kid
I’m so excited to talk to you today about new Enchanted Self developments. For instance, do you know I have a new book? Lots of you know, but many do not know. The title, THE TRUTH, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything! I hope wets your appetite. I have a wonderful contest going […]
Treasures in One’s Home-Look to the Elderly
"A old woman in a house Is a treasure in a house." from the Talmud What a simple Recipe for Happiness, that so many of us no longer know how to cook up in our culture! In order to achieve Happiness and what I call the Enchanted Self capacity, one must not throw away the […]
A New Entry From ‘The Girl’ who wrote THE TRUTH, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything
I’m already working on more stories about ‘The Girl’. In fact, I’m hoping for a book about her to be published in China. That book will contain lots of entries that have been hidden up to now. Here is one: " We got our report cards yesterday. I got 2 C’s, 5 B’s and […]
Sing unto Him a new song. Play Skillfully with a loud noise. Psalms 33:3
A few years ago I was walking through Penn Station in New York City. There was a man sitting playing a Musical Saw. At first I thought I was seeing things. But I wasn’t. He really made lovely music with a saw. And he was such a personable, elegant man. We chatted and he told […]
Share Your Heroine
The TRUTH, I’m 10, I’m Smart and I Know Everything! by Dr Barbara Holstein "Tell us about your heroine — the female lead in your book. The heroine in THE TRUTH, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything! is a ten-year old girl. She is funny, wise, honest and she really does know the […]