My parents, both busy professional people, have trouble finding time for home maintenance. On weekends they each make a list of things to be done. Father's list is never completely crossed off, but Mother's always is. Puzzled, I asked her how she managed that.

"Simple," she answered with a satisfied grin. "I do the chore first, and then I put it on the list and cross it off!"

Brenda M. Witt
Reader's Digest
November 1985, pp. 84

Learn how to be comfortable in the present. . .to be awake and aware in the here and now, without worrying about what you should be doing or what comes next.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 3

No one can uplift someone else without himself being made better. It is a natural law that the teacher always learns more than the student. Just "Tow your brother's boat across, and lo, your own has reached the shore."

Sterling W. Sill
The Best of Sterling W. Sill
pp. 52-53

With immersion in the present comes a sense of the rhythm and flow inherent in each moment. What's needed now is a concious effort to time shift--to slow down or speed up your own rhythm to be in harmony with it.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 4

Learn how to be comfortable in the present. . .to be awake and aware in the here and now, without worrying about what you should be doing or what comes next.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 3

Happy Valentines Day!

The key to substituting calm satisfaction for stress is the ability to recognize the rhythm of each moment and synchronize yourself with that rhythm.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 3