Overheard on a Mountaintop
Overheard on a Mountaintop
Overheard on a Mountaintop
Welcome to my spot on the mountainside…
Join me on my rock. We’ve got a warm spot right here in the sun. If you’re quiet you can hear the wind stream through the treetops below. At times it can sound like a symphony orchestra warming-up. And sometimes you’ll overhear something else remarkable. Some of the secrets of existence are murmured here, if you strain to listen.
My views are my own. I have no medical or mental health training. I write about my experiences in the hopes someone else may gain some insight from them. The answers and insights I’ve found won’t speak to everyone, but perhaps my journey will inspire you to pop the hood on your own brain and see what powers your experiences.
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Overheard views…
Distressed Garmets and the Earned Wear of Life
When our distressed garments earn some real wear-and-tear from life experiences.
Surviving Encounters with Deep Sea Creatures and Difficult People
Difficult people are a lot like the strange creatures that inhabit the deep ocean. There are reasons they develop thick armor and poisonous barbs. Examining why can help us deal with unpleasant people.
A Walt Disney World Day While Working from Home
If working from home has your brain starting to glitch, it’s time to get creative. Declare a Disney Day once a week to help you shake up your schedule.
Drowning Aquaman: How Trauma In Your Life Can Reveal Superpowers
Understanding the Transformative Nature of Trauma. How Aquaman had to learn about his fishy nature and how we can avoid having to go to such depths.
Creekside Meditations
How does the creek bed support such a torrent of water and not get washed away. It’s something to ponder as you meditate alongside a gurgling creek.
The Lesson of the Cancelled Flight: When Life Makes You Pause
What do you do when life forces you to pause? Do you struggle even more? How long will it take you to accept that your flight is grounded?
Refusing Errant Data from Your Brain on Gloomy Days
Shutting down the feed of negative thoughts from your brain on days predestined to be gloomy.
Strengthening Your Memories With Herbal Alchemy
What if there were a way to store memories more vividly in your brain. This method uses the strongest of our five senses for recollection. It works for the loves of your life and your special moments with family and friends.
Parts Per Million…Parts Per Billion
Diluting our stress into “parts per billion.” Imagining your anxious moments as droplets instead of reservoirs. The scientific mantra I’ve been using lately.
Bird Feeder Meditations
Staring at your bird feeder can prove entertaining. It can also be meditative. Here are some tips for seeing your backyard through the eyes of your feathered friends.
Giving The People In Your Life A Win
People in your life won’t always meet your expectations. But before you eject them, consider their intentions. If they truly strive to please you, there’s value in that. It may be worth giving them a preemptive win and another chance.
When the Path Curves Out of Sight
So many of us ignore a trailhead or an arrow pointing the way in our lives. We want to know what lies miles down the trail, but life will rarely give us that type of clarity.
The Truth About Gingerbread Houses
What if we told gingerbread families the truth about the beautiful homes we build for them. How to avoid “the cookie crumble” this holiday season.
Ghostly Estates In Our Parks and Forests
When we take a weekend trek across local parks and forestland, we can miss the remnants of former homesteads and the stories of lost generations.
Meditate Under The Night Sky
What would you think stars were if you didn’t already know? A creative thought prompt to help you achieve a meditative state while stargazing.
Don’t Assume You Are The Only Good In Your World
If you lie awake agonizing about all the tragedy you imagine is going on around you, change your perspective. Try to imagine what would happen if weren’t the only good person in the universe.
Life: The Escape Room
Our lives might be an Escape Room. You leave the womb to find yourself trapped in a brightly lit hospital room. You only have a limited time to gather clues and solve the riddle. But where do we escape to?
The Power of Place for Your Thoughts
Finding undiscovered spots around your home to retreat to physically and mentally. And how to use a book as a passport to an even more distant world once you’re there.
All Fish Go To Heaven
We can all get hooked and pulled from our reality for a moment. We might have to face a new reality, just like a fish on a line.
Black Holes: The Rabbit in the Magic Hat
My attempt to place black holes in the supernatural realm. The hope a photo of a black hole should give all of us seeking the spiritual and the paranormal.
Meditation Techniques After a Mild Apocalypse (or bad day at work)
Meditating in nature after a tough day.
The Two Things Superman and Lex Luthor Taught Me
There are times we want to put on a cape and save people whether they want us to or not. There are times we want to pack our capes away and forget Earthlings. What’s the right move? Superman had the same question.
The Depth of Space: Living in the Universe as a Microbe
Taking comfort in living a finite life in an unending universe.
The Power of the Sad Song: Recovering In Difficult Times
Clinging to a sad song and letting it guide you through tough times and out the other side to become whole again.
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Overheard on a Mountaintop 