From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, We’ve got a serious problem in the West. We treat life as something to get through. We act as though we just want to get it over with already! Nearly everything we do is seen as an inconvenience getting in the way of our peace and happiness. But when does the peace and happiness come? When we’re sleeping? When…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, For many people, especially parents, it’s a lot easier to give up personal cravings and desires than it is to give up our cravings and desires for the people we love. We can be very selfless for ourselves, but when it comes to our family and friends, our selfishness knows no bounds. We strongly crave for our loved ones…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, We are all like Frodo on a quest to destroy the ring of power. It’s often a perilous journey shrouded in darkness. At any point, we can turn back, run away, and go home to our comforts — ale, good food, and pipe-weed. But if we do that, eventually the darkness will spread and all that is good and green in…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, How silly is it that we love people by worrying about them? Is putting our worries onto our loved ones truly love? And is it possible to love without worrying? To truly love someone is to care for them, not get agitated and pass our stress onto them. Don’t worry, just love. That’s the greatest act we can do…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, Does every little inconvenience, unexpected expense, obstacle, delay, and detour cause a freakout? Do you anticipate disasters before you’re sure if they’re even going to happen? It’s a funny thing when we start to notice the correlation between stress and reaction time. If we’re always on edge, we react immediately. If our reaction time is in milliseconds, we’re always…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, Ever noticed what happens when we manage our stress? It keeps coming back. The cycle never breaks. We get stressed, we blow off steam (with entertainment, pleasurable experiences, social gatherings, exercise, work, or food and substances), and repeat. This is because we never get to the core of stress. We only manage the symptoms. What we really want is…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, This world is full of madness. Anger, cruelty, mindlessness, immaturity, jealousy, and hatred are in no short supply. This kind of insanity seems to be the most highly renewable resource there is. So, why are we going around reacting to other people’s insanity — defending ourselves, fighting back, and letting them drive us crazy? To fight with a crazy person…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, Nearly all of us are living on a hamster wheel. As if by compulsion, when we feel stress/anxiety/fear/anger, we run away. And yet, those painful thoughts and emotions are never far behind. So we run and run and run. Most of us will spend our whole lives running. The first impulse is to escape, avoid, deny, and distract. We…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter Newsletter Hello my friend, If every problem we have stems from the same cause, then by rooting out that cause we can solve all our problems. But is it really that simple? Could it really be that easy? Actually, it is. Problems do not exist in the world. They exist in our minds. We have desires, and when the undesirable happens, we label…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter NewsletterHello my friend,As the holiday season approaches, I’m reminded of my friends and family who long for the celebrations.They build the holidays up in their mind. They look so forward to them and make them into such a big deal. But then when they finally arrive, they’re already living in the future and sad it’s going to be over soon.Many of us slog…
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