“Why is ‘being’ harder than ‘doing’?”
Submitted by Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.
While doing some long stretches of meditation last week, my mind had ample time to roam and resist the simple instruction to focus on the breath.  At one point, feeling particularly ragged, I noticed this particular question had arisen.  Though tempting, I resisted my inclination to [...]

By Irene Javors, LMHC
New Yorkers have had a very scary and stressful week. On a prematurely summer-like, Saturday night in May, Faisal Shahzad deposited a car bomb in the middle of Times Square. The cliched “Crossroads of the World” became the unwanted arena of another spectacle of attempted urban terrorism. Fortunately, no one was hurt [...]