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Stalking your fear is chapter one in my book, Fierce Medicine, because we need to deal with our fear, first and foremost. We are all affected by fear. Whether we push it away or deny it, the reaction to fear is usually toxic and unhelpful, numbing us out and making us our least resourceful selves.
We have this old technology for dealing with fear that helped us survive — freeze, fight and

Having a full calendar, in many ways, is a sign of success. At best, it’s an indication that we’ve acquired what we set out to attain in our younger years — possibly a career, a family, and a sprinkling of hobbies and involvements that hold meaning. Yet, often this fullness, even when it’s a good sort of fullness, keeps us from truly enjoying our lives. It leaves us thirsty for a particular quality of living that isn’t possible when our cup is

Yoga, meditation, massage, acupuncture, and herbal remedies; these are just some of Eastern medicine’s contributions to our decades-long search for ways to live well with fewer pills and less-invasive health care. Toward that end, I’m excited to report that there are promising new findings in the field of energy psychology, specifically about a practice called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), or tapping, that is taking our search for holistic solutions to an exciting new level.
What’s unique about EFT is how it combines Eastern wisdom about acupressure, or “meridian points,” in our bodies, with traditional Western psychotherapy. The practice consists of tapping with your fingertips on specific meridian points while talking through traumatic memories and a wide range of emotions. “Acupoint tapping sends signals directly to the stress centers of the mid-brain, not mediated by the frontal lobes (the thinking part, active in talk therapy),” explains

Have you been following “The Nextnik” web series on Huff/Post50? In Episode 6, the last in the series, Larry Zimmerman, a recently laid-off Post 50, has finally found a new direction — with a little help from a friend.
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Ghosts, angels, spirits–are they real or a figment of your imagination? Oprah interviews Jonas Elrod about his ability to see these spiritual visions and energies. Then, don’t miss the exclusive TV premiere of Jonas’ film, Wake Up.
The spiritual path can be a colossal pain. I find nothing in it to be romanticized though Hollywood has tried. It is work, real

American novelist Philip Roth complains that the “real world” has grown so berserk that fiction has no hope of keeping up and remaining credible at the same time. I was perhaps not the only person to recall his complaint upon reading that BBH Labs — the innovation unit of the international marketing agency BBH — hired homeless people to walk around this year’s South by Southwest technology conference carrying mobile Wi-Fi devices, offering Internet access in exchange for donations.
The “Homeless Hotspots” project paid its walking advertisements just $20 a day and encouraged them to beg for more. “We saw it as a means to raise awareness by giving homeless people a way to engage with mainstream society and talk to people,” said Saneel Radia, the director of innovation at BBH Labs who oversaw the project.
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Dear Evan,
Twenty one years ago today I was in labor in a Houston hospital. The sun was setting and things were finally progressing, when your father suggested (he was joking, he swears) that maybe I would want to wait a few hours so you wouldn’t spend your 21st birthday “surrounded by very drunk people drinking green beer.”
I believe my response might have been a more colorful version of “No thank you, I’d prefer to have this baby today.” And at 8:11 that night, my St. Patrick’s boy was born.
The 21st birthday that seemed impossibly distant back, then is now here — and with its arrival comes my realization that I’ve been planning for it since before you and I had even

A sense of urgency propels aging Pope Benedict in his upcoming trip to Mexico and Cuba. In both countries the pope will encounter increasingly diverse religious landscapes. This is especially the case in Cuba, where both Pentecostalism and the two main Afro-Cuban religions, Santeria and Palo Monte, have been flourishing since the last papal visit, John Paul’s in 1998. While the Catholic church in Cuba has played an important role in promoting humans rights and negotiating the release of political prisoners, it has been losing ground in the competition for the souls of

Travelzoo’s Senior Editor Gabe Saglie is currently in Ireland in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, which is actually a five-day celebration running March 16-20. Parades and festivities are scheduled all over Ireland, though the parade through Downtown Dublin on March 17 is regarded as the best and biggest with 4,000 performers and a crowd of 500,000 expected. Not bad for a country with a population of just about 4 million!
Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, which is a different destination than the Republic of Ireland, whose capital is

The Senate is considering the House-passed, typically-misnamed “JOBS Act.” This act dramatically cuts regulations and disclosure requirements for companies that want to sell stock. As written it opens the door to the usual scammers, fleecers and fraudsters that feast on deregulation. But I think with some core limits and protections this concept — not this bill, but this concept — could transform our economy in some very good ways.
The So-Called JOBS Act
The word “jobs” in the name of the bill does not mean the kind of jobs that millions of people are currently desperate for, it means “Jumpstart Our Business Startups.” The bill makes it easier for companies to “go public” — sell stock to the public for the first time. It lets businesses sidestep audits for up to five

A coalition of activist organizations demonstrating at the Monsanto office in Davis CA. successfully caused a shutdown of the multinational chemical and biotech company offices there on on Saturday, March 16.
The shutdown took place on the first day of a planned weekend of activities in Davis, intended to spotlight and oppose the activities of Monsanto in this country and abroad. Upon announcement of the shutdown, Monsanto instructed employees to stay away from work.
Monsanto is known for developing controversial chemical products for farming, landscaping and pest-control such as DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, rBGH (Bovine Growth Hormone), and

The actor Alan Alda challenges you to explain to an 11-year-old what a flame is.
The winning entry will be announced at the World Science Festival in New York in June. According to researchers for the Big Bang United Kingdom Young Scientists & Engineers Fair, the top questions asked by children from 5 to 16 years old are:
To the first question on why the Moon is sometimes out in the day, the Big Bang Fair suggests this answer:
Life’s Little Mysteries suggests this answer:
The Moon is just as likely to be visible during the day as it is at night. It orbits Earth independently of the Sun. When its orbit brings it to your part of the sky during daylight hours, it is illuminated by the Sun, and we can see it.
I think that those are both poor

Day Six and somehow, everyone is still awake (and able to totally nail it on the SXSW Comedy stage); high fives all around!
The Stand Up! Records showcase started the day off at the ACC, with Brooke Van Poppelen alongside former Texans Ryan Stout and Brendon Walsh. The comedy label takes pride in presenting smart, sometimes political acts (having put out albums from Al Madrigal, Lewis Black, Greg Proops, Andy Richie, Jackie Kashian, and more — including noted badasses The Unbookables). Over at Esther’s, TuneIn radio curated a line-up that featured Jessi Klein, Louis Katz, Andres du Bouchet, and Mike Birbiglia, hosted by Chicago comic (Sweet!) Beth Stelling. Birbiglia’s film Sleepwalk With Me is screening all week, earning well-deserved, highly complimentary reviews, and the audience was psyched to see the stand-up take a break from the film fest to do what he does best on the Esther’s

When Duke entered the NCAA Tournament without a sign of a true lockdown defense, it became perhaps one of the most vulnerable Blue Devil teams in recent memory — certainly as a 2 seed at least. For 40 minutes of its surprising 75-70 victory today, Lehigh proved the more physical, more polished and far more mature team. More than anything though, Duke’s defensive deficiencies — prevalent all season — were evident both on the perimeter and in the paint.
The Devils have struggled to contain driving lanes for much of the season, failing to thwart pick-and-roll with quality hedges and just as importantly, lacking the perimeter quickness to contain elite guards including Lehigh’s C.J. McCollum, who lit them up for 30 points and 6

The combination of hot air from politicians’ breath meeting the cold air of economic declines produces fog in much the same way marine salt air fog is created — and with much the same effect: hard and risky to find one’s way around. Now, the global fog seems to be beginning to lift a bit and the way ahead in terms of national security and economic health seems clearer, at least to this observer.
Let’s take a little tour to see where we stand today, ending with what may very well be a big piece of news in the United States.
Europe: Europe has been struggling with fallout from its somewhat incomplete union. European nations took first steps about 15 years ago with a political and monetary union, but postponed deciding on budget and tax fiscal issues, essential to a real union, because they could not achieve agreement at that time.
Now that the Greek solution has been essentially completed — not to everyone’s liking or forever — it is likely to last long enough for Europe to get on with next essential steps.
While it is true that Greece and all of Europe are risking more economic slowdown because austerity has, for the moment, trumped stimulus, the overall outcome is that Europe should now be able to begin to get back on track.
One big bank of fog beginning to clear!
The Middle East: Here, I reserve a caveat on any views expressed based on the story about the elephant, who was carrying a scorpion on his back across the Red Sea. Despite a promise by the scorpion that he would not bite the elephant en route, the scorpion did bite, dooming them

I was surprised to see a recent report in The Economist suggesting that
the Millennium Villages Project has failed in its efforts to scale up.
As the advisor who served three presidents in Nigeria over the last six
years in order to scale up the Millennium Villages to tens of millions
of people across the country, I’m surprised to have not received a call
from the magazine to check the facts on what is actually a widely
discussed and readily available case of nation-wide scale up.
Some background: for the six years that I humbly served as the special
assistant to the president on the Millennium Development Goals, I worked
hand in hand with local government leaders to develop a project known as
the Conditional Grant Scheme for Local Government Areas (CGS-LGA). After
2005, when Professor Jeffrey Sachs first alerted me to the important project
he was launching in order to help Africa meet the Millennium Development
Goals, our nation was delighted to take the concept into practice and
launch two Millennium Village sites, then reaching about 45,000 people.
The government of Nigeria was inspired to go beyond just those sites and
to scale up the MVP model to tens of millions more, by working through a
local government context. In partnership with Jeff and his team, we not
only achieved the robust design of an ambitious program in 113 local
governments covering 20 million Nigerian poor but have also inspired our
parliament to invest more resources to reach all 774 local governments
in our country by 2015. The project is Nigeria’s, and, of course, builds
on Nigeria’s own organization, needs and strategies; the concepts and
approaches of the Millennium Village project are key inspirations and
techniques.
The funding for this scale up is our

Sometimes I’m just astonished at the inability of political campaigns to do a simple web search. Case in point: the story about Mitt Romney’s dog Seamus.
That’s a good Irish name (pronounced: “shay-muss”), but I already wrote my St. Patrick’s Day column yesterday, so I’m going to just skip right over that aspect of the situation.
Instead, what flabbergasts me is that in the whole Seamus-as-political-football fracas, nobody has yet bothered to dig out the Pink Floyd song of the same name.
This is an incredible oversight, due to the song itself. It’s experimental, as are many Pink Floyd songs, but not in the way that you’d

This week, we as civil rights and labor leaders are headed to the Hyundai shareholders meeting in Seoul, South Korea. We aren’t going because we hold investments in Hyundai; we’re going because Hyundai has a lot invested in the state of Alabama, and vice versa, and those investments are souring fast.
Alabama has placed itself at the forefront of a new civil and human rights struggle. It’s a familiar role for this state — ground zero for the most virulent forms of racial segregation on the route from slavery to freedom. The state is now home to

It’s strange sometimes to see yourself through other people’s eyes. Others see things — both good and bad — that you don’t see in yourself.
“I see you as outdoorsy,” a new friend told me the other day, which caught me off guard. I’ve never thought of myself that way.
Or a few months ago, a friend told me, “Every time I see you, you’re doing something amazing.” Me? I love my life, but much of it seems so mundane, so boring. But I only see this friend a few times a year, and through her eyes I’m always doing something new and different, like training for a marathon or traveling to South America or writing a

With plans for both its options for orderly disengagement from Afghanistan upended this week by a staff sergeant’s massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, the Obama administration urgently needs to alter the equation. The expiration next week of the current U.N. mandate for Afghanistan can provide the occasion.
The president has wisely stood fast against a “rush for the exits” — no Mogadishu moment here — and he took full advantage of British prime minister David Cameron’s visit to Washington to demonstrate allied commitment to keep to NATO’s timetable for a gradual drawdown of Western forces.
A carefully managed phase-out is

By: Noah J. Nelson
As social media comes of age, a host of platforms for social engagement and online organizing are making their presence known, from sites like Ruck.us to Avaaz. While the spectre of slackatavism still lingers over the entire realm of online political action, the last year has shown just how potent the marriage of social media and boots on the ground organizing can be.
This past week saw one of the clearest signs yet just how seriously the Silicon Valley business community is taking this trend, with the announcement that $6.25 million has been secured for the Community Organizing System (COS) platform NationBuilder in a funding round led by the powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Causes co-founder Joe Green has stepped out from behind the scenes to take the role of President of NationBuilder; he had kept his role as a co-founder of the platform secret during the start-up’s first

Have you ever gotten to a point in your life where you feel like the old paradigms just aren’t cutting it? Have you entertained the thought that maybe “all is vanity and striving after wind”? It might comfort you to know that inanimate objects wrestle with the same concerns. The great debate about the meaning of life continues.
James Napoli is an author and humorist.
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Although there are more than one million apps available to download for Apple, Google, and Microsoft-powered smartphones and tablets, only a very sweet few ever become household names.
Like Angry Birds and Instagram, Draw Something by OMGPOP will make the crossover from hot mobile app to pop cultural phenomenon. And whereas those first two iconic brands took a few months to become mainstream, Draw Something — more or less an updated version of Pictionary played on mobile devices — almost literally is an overnight sensation, with more than 20 million downloads in first five weeks
While it took several months for Angry Birds and Instagram to attract one million users, Draw Something generated more than one million downloads in its first 10 days. Of course, Draw Something had at least two primary advantages over the older titles at launch that helped its

Young people were innocent bystanders in the global financial crisis, but they may well end up paying the heaviest price for the policy mistakes that have led us to where we are today. Young people will have to pay the taxes to service the debts accumulated in recent years.
Moreover, the global economy is threatened by continued strains in the euro area, and unemployment is still climbing in several countries, in particular in Europe. Young people (those aged 15 to 24) are the most affected, and youth unemployment has reached record levels in a number of countries.
If the right policies are not put into place, there is a risk not only of a lost decade in terms of growth but also of a lost generation.
Consider this. In Spain and Greece, nearly half of all young people cannot find