Michael J. Formica

The Discovery Health Channel recently contacted me to participate in a documentary on holistic and non-traditional approaches to anger management. The body of this post is devoted to an open letter from the contact person for the project, who seeks participants...

Within the Hindu pantheon, Ganesh (pr., ga-NESH) is the deity of obstacles...

Considerable attention has been paid to bullying of late, especially regards kids. One of the things that we tend to overlook, however, is that those playground bullies grow up and, as people are nothing if not consistent, they tend not to change a whole lot...

When we want to achieve mastery at something, we practice. We practice the piano, a sport, a skill, or a language. Practice, practice, practice. What if we were to practice everything...

Yoga, as an overall discipline, is incredibly rich and diverse. This complexity tends to get a bit lost on Western practitioners, with the focus mostly on Hatha Yoga as a physical practice of body and breath...

One way that we can get drawn off our center is by confusing who we are with what we do...

Who are you? No...really...have you ever really considered that question? In the small of the night, when you are sitting naked in the dark, what is it that defines you...

A very wise and beautiful friend of mine said to me the other day, "When are you going to stop listening to the voice of your father and start listening to the voice of God?" In context, she intended, "When are you going to stop following the script written for you years ago by someone else based...

We live in perilous times. Things that we have taken for granted and may have once regarded as constants in our lives have become uncertain, feeding, in turn, the frenzy of our own personal sense of uncertainty...

One of my teachers, Grandmaster Lee, is often heard saying, "There is no "try" - only do!" While at first blush this may appear to be one of many almost stereotypical aphorisms of a wizened old Taoist priest, it is, in fact, a rather complex social commentary on how not to build negativity into...

Last evening a patient attempted to jump out of my office window. No surprises there - this is a deeply disturbed young woman with a long history of suicidality who is a frequent flier at the local hospitals...

Mahatma Gandhi taught that we should endeavor to be the change that we wish to see in the world...

In a recent post, Nathan Heflick writes on the topic of "Why and How Afterlife Belief Occurs".  Regrettably, the premise of his research is predicated upon the demonstrably false premise that has become the container for modern psychology -- the division of science from soul.Psychology, in fact, ...