The Better Life Awareness Blog
Tips, practices, and teachings for living a happier, more awakened life.
Learn to handle painful emotions and destructive beliefs in a mindful, healthy way.
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe)
Hey there Better Lifers!
In 1938, Napoleon Hill wrote down an eye-opening interview he had with...
The devil!
Really?
The Devil?
Well, I agree with what Napoleon Hill wrote about it:
“... the Devil I interviewed may have been real, just as he claimed...
By Eldad Ben-Moshe (Reading Time: 2 minutes)
Hi there Better Lifers!
There's a story about an elder of the Cherokee tribe who was sitting with his grandson.
The grandson was troubled and came to his grandfather for advice.
So the elder told his grandson about a terrible battle...
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Hey there Better Lifers!
Pain and suffering are a serious issue.
But sometimes the best way to learn - and to remember - how to deal with it all,
is through a joke.
As the Course in Miracles says -
part of the problem is that we are...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 5 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
A Bedouin was walking with his son in the hot, unforgiving desert.
Their camel was all they had.
It was their hope for survival, too.
One day, after a long journey, they arrived in a small town.
All they...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 3 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
In a mother’s womb were two twin babies.
The first baby asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other baby replied, “Of course.
There has to be...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 5 minutes)
Loved ones
Ram Dass, one of my favorite teachers, shared this story once:
There was a monk who lived in the monastery up on the hill.
The local girl down in the village got pregnant by the fisherman.
She didn’t want to...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 3 minutes)
Loved ones
Emotional pain is tough to handle sometimes, isn’t it?
Life contains suffering and sadness alongside joy and pleasure.
In a world of duality, it's an inevitable part of the music of life.
How do you deal with...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 2 minutes)
Loved ones
The ups and downs of life are as inevitable as the changing of the seasons.
Ok, I know what you think...
“Great Eldad, you became a poet? how does that help me?”
Well obviously my ‘poetry’ can't...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 7 minutes)
That really wasn’t what I planned for my birthday.
But that wasn’t the reason why I was suffering.
Nor was the physical pain.
For my 43rd birthday (August 21st. Yes, I’m a Leo!) I wanted to go camping.
I love...