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Hi, my name is Mary Jaksch. Welcome to Goodlife Zen! I hope you enjoy this warm, supportive, and respectful community.
Articles at Goodlife Zen inhabit the space where personal growth meets spirituality.
As an authorized Zen master (Diamond Sangha lineage), psychotherapist, and author, I have a burning interest in questions that touch spirituality and personal growth. When writing for Goodlife Zen, I also bring to bear my life experience. I have two nationalities, English and German, and live in New Zealand. I’m the mother of a lovely son and live happily ever after with my partner David.
I’ve been awarded an MA in Religious Studies, hold a 4th Dan Blackbelt in karate, started my professional life as a flautist, and love dancing Argentine tango wearing skimpy dresses.
Most of all, I am a human being. Like you, I’m continually learning and growing. And I’m happy to share what I’m learning with you.
If you have concerns or suggestions, or would like to write a guest post, please don’t hesitate to contact me here.
You might also like to visit my other blog Write to Done that I share with Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. It’s a blog for writers and I’m the Chief Editor.
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Photo from accent on ecelectic A guest post by Kent Thune of The Financial Philosopher “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I’m not a fan of lists, primarily because they only satisfy the brains desire for instant grati...
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A guest post by Arvind Devalia of Make It Happen Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to have so much drama in their lives? Whereas some people breeze through life, others seem to live from one crisis to another. Some people just seem to crave drama, create drama and look for drama. The word that is used to describe such a person is a “drama queen” – this is generally slang for someone ...
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A guest post by Steven Aitchison of Change Your Thoughts How did you find yourself reading this article, did you see it on twitter, was it part of a regular pattern i.e. you have signed up to Marys newsletter or RSS feed or did you happily find it by chance? This is what we will be talking about in the article today, Serendipity. Serendipity is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: The occu...
11-11
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A guest post by Patrick Stoeckmann from Unwrap Your Mind Breathingit is our most basic function. And it is the most essential for survival.Yet most of the time we don’t think of it consciously, we just do it. And we have no choice, since our subconscious tightly controls the automatic rhythm of inhaling and exhaling to ensure our survival. While there are many techniques to control breathing espec...
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Image by .craigA guest post by Anastasiya Goers from Balance in MeA lot of times, I hear the phrases “Be your best,” “Live your best life,” “Be the best in everything.” You can buy books and read tons of articles that will “teach” you to be your best (you can check out Optimal Thinking: How to be Your Best Self if you want to employ “the best” attitude).I think that these mottos create a generatio...
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