Feeling compassion may go a long way to improving well-being, reducing stress and achieving better academic results, according to a study recently released
by University of Redlands researchers. With over a decade of research, the study was released by Religious Studies Professor Fran Grace, Psychology
Professor Celine Ko and Biology Professor Lisa Olson. Read More...
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Raise Your Resiliency through Compassion

MAYSHAD MAG interview With Eileen McDargh
Mayshad Magazine is an advocacy platform for empowerment which mainly focuses on empowering women, raising awareness and exploring a contemporary lifestyle.
Their tagline is "Be Who You Want To Be" and their content is both educating and uplifting. I was delighted when I was approached for an
interview and I'm excited to share it with you.
The questions I was asked included “As a motivational speaker, how do you keep yourself daily motivated to transmit your positivity to other individuals?
Where does your passion come from?”, “In what ways does the relationship between a speaker and an audience sustain you, and in what ways does it
not?”, “If you had to choose one empowering speech you could share with our Mayshad readers right now, what would it be?” and more. You can read
the entire interview at https://bit.ly/2UHmHKW.
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Walk Too Fast. You’ll Miss What’s at Your Feet
Cajas National Park is a high-altitude area west of Cuenca, Ecuador. It’s known for trails through evergreen cloud forests and hundreds of lakes. It’s
also home to a rich variety of wildlife including Andean condors, giant hummingbirds and raccoon-like coatis—none of which we saw in our last
hike before returning to California. Read More...

Ecotourism and Our Planet: The Secret to a Resilient Tomorrow
Ten years ago, my husband and I joined Dr. Jeff Salz, a cultural anthropologist, to explore the northwest quadrant of the Indian Himalayas.Our venerable guide and instructor was Ankit Sood.Ankit, founder of Sunshine Himalaya Expeditions, is a man whose business is to bring environmental and cultural awareness of the people and the ecology of that region.It was eye-opening, invigorating, and full of serendipity—including finding the Dalai Lama in a remote monastery. Read More...

When The Heart Knows, The Talent Grows
Dateline: Octovalo, Ecuador Read More...

Quito Does Not Mean QUIT!!
Years ago, cultural anthropologist, Dr. Jeff Salz, led us through an amazing adventure as we hiked the northwest quadrant of the Indian Himalayas. From
traveling the highest “navigable” road in the world (you’ve got to be kidding), to encountering the Dalai Lama in the remote monastery of Naiko, to
making it across three white water rivers on foot, to discovering an India that few see, we loved it all. Hence, we never hesitated when Jeff proposed
a new adventure/inventure: “Come experience the cultures of Ecuador. Read More...

Resilient Racers Only Need HEART!
Drizzling, cold rain kept my drive along Pacific Coast Highway a soggy mess. “Poor cyclists”, I thought as I passed what looked like a race.
Ugh - What a DREARY day for a race! The longer I drove, the more I realized something was DIFFERENT about these cyclists. Sure, some had the lean,
hard Lance Armstrong bodies one comes to expect in a bicycle race. Read More...

Draw Resiliency Lessons from Your Past
My previous post began with the destruction of La Casa de Maria and the Center for Spiritual Renewal. For twenty years, I have made a self-pilgrimage to
the top of El Cielo. It's a 4.3 mile hike from the Center to the ridge line (8.6 mile round trip) above Montecito. Now, it’ a fine of $5,000 for anyone
who even enters the trail after the destruction. Read More...

Recovery Resiliency Requires a Long View
Read More...This past January would have marked
the 21st year to go La Casa de Maria and The Center for Spiritual Renewal, a blessed retreat house that for decades has offered silence and reflection—plus
meals from their garden. Each year I go away to be quiet and in the quiet. I think, pray, write, and hike. The center crouches at the base of a mountain
range towering over Montecito, CA and offers views of the distant Channel Islands.

Resilient Organizations Increase Trust & Reduce Gossip
A recent study published in the journal, Science shows that it does. Authors Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral studied 126,000 twitter chains involving
three million people. What they found was that falsehoods were 70% more likely to be retweeted than factual information. Read More...
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