Naomi Katz

I can’t help but feel that this endless war in all of its manifestations in all of the corners of the world  that are touched by violence missiles flying overhead oppression and occupation economic stress loneliness and isolation can simply be summed up  as  a war on our consciousness.   The more we are afraid the easier it is to manipulate us to distance ourselves from one another to separate and judge when what we actually need is to be TOGETHER.  Now as ever, the call that reverberates in...

Do you feel the  pressure to BE something? We live in a distinctly individualistic culture. Think about it for a minute.  Do you define yourself more based on your profession, your accomplishments, or is it your network of family and friends that makes you who you are? In 2020, Joseph Henrich, Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, published  The Weirdest People in the World: How the West became Psychologically Particular and Peculiarly Prosperous .  WEIRD is an acronym ...

In a recent mentoring session, a woman who has been working with me for a while expressed that she feels she has a problem with her will, that it is really hard for her to commit to a practice and do it on a regular basis.  When we began to unpack this, she said, “I think I have a problem with my will.”  I immediately responded by telling her that it’s not her who has a problem, but rather that we all struggle in this way, to commit to something and focus our attention on it.   We live in a...