Samuel has spent 20 years as a body/mind therapist and a meditation teacher, speaker and author. Trained in body-centered psychotherapy, and in the Zen tradition and the Vipassana style of meditation, as well as in MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - by Jon Kabat Zinn), Samuel is in private practice in Manhattan. http://www.livinginthepresent.com He has been teaching Living in the Present / Dynamic Mindfulness Meditation through individual & couple sessions, classes, workshops, organizational wellness training and retreats. He currently teaches Mindfulness Meditation, Stress and Pain Management to cancer patients at Gilda's Club and people with HIV at Friends In Deed, at a major bank in NYC, The 92nd St.-Y, and the NY Open Center. He co-facilitates workshops, and retreats with his partner Stan Grier - worldwide. http://www.calmingyourworld.com
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Are you Accommodating a bruised ego? Yours or some one else's? Do you realize how much time, energy, mental health and money we spend on feeding and accommodating our bruised egos, and those of our friends, co-workers, family and loved ones? Is it really satisfying? Is it fulfilling? Does it make us any happier, more at ease, except for moments of immediate gratification, a feeling of being right that wares off as quick as it comes on - because the ego is insatiable.

