Encouraging Words by Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones

In short, don’t wait until you have the time to be mindful. Every moment IS the time. 

It all begins with the remembrance that love is not seasonal – it’s always a good day to love!

If everything, including you and me, has an expiration date, how can we savor the blessings and gifts of today before they slip through our fingers?

Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones, DD, explores the differences of the “Spirit of Generosity” and the “Generosity of Spirit” in an exclusive message for Paradise News.

By Dennis Merritt Jones, DD On the highway of life, sometimes it pays to get out of our lane.  Have you ever been presented with an opportunity that, while not within your wheelhouse, had you not embraced it, you may have missed the experience of a lifetime? That happened for me in 1974, after graduating from college with a BA degree in music. I had long dreamed of writing, performing, and recording my own…

: What have we been putting off until “tomorrow”? And why are we waiting any longer? Life’s too short for “business as usual.”

Dennis Merritt Jones highlights how our priorities affect our mental health and how to better manage what we prioritize.

While it might not provide a direct solution to every issue, music has the remarkable ability to help us “remember to remember” our interconnectedness.

Be a Call for Mindfulness Ever thought a blaring siren could be your ticket to mindfulness? Yeah, it does sound a bit out there, but let’s dive in together. My first lesson in using a siren from a passing emergency vehicle as a mindfulness tool came from one of my great mentors, Dr. Fletcher Harding, over forty-years ago. As he was presenting his lesson to our class, an ambulance passed by the building with…

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