Dr. Sara O'Neill

03/10/2026

This week is part 4 of the six-part series of blogs I've been sharing about life's first principles, and it focuses on the third principle.

The third principle is called Thought.

This is different from our personal thinking, individual thoughts, habitual thoughts, inspiration, positive thinking, ideas, opinions, psychology, personalities—all habits of thought.

The principle of Thought is the creative force or energy resident in the Universe that is without form until we bring it into being as personal thought in all its various forms. We use this creative potential to shape our world.

The power at the tip of our minds is boggling. It's limitless. We are nexuses of pure life energy, taking unformed raw creative potential and constantly creating and forming powerful forces into being—unconsciously—with every breath, every heartbeat.

This might seem obvious. Yes, human beings think. Duh!

But stop a minute to think about it (ha!). The fact that we think and the fact that we can think are actually incredible.

Nothing exists until we give it thought. We create our entire world out of Thought. The creative energy of existence.

Our feelings and emotions come entirely from this creative power. Sometimes it's pretty one-to-one: I think something is sad → I feel sadness. I think something is wrong → anger. Scary thoughts → fear.

At other times, we think and think, going around in circles fast. We feel tired, fuzzy, confused. We double down, trying to think our way out—and become anxious. Anxiety, worry, tension aren't really emotions. They're the body's alarm system: “Slow down, stop the fast thinking—it's harming the system,” like pain telling us to change behaviour. Pull your hand off the hot stove! ...

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Untriggered: Discovering the Three Principles That Dissolve Triggers, Anxiety, and Stress A six-part blog series for regaining the power to live your life how you want. Part 4: Thought – The Creative Power That Shapes Your Entire Experience  The third principle is called Thought. Thi

03/09/2026

Quote of the week: "Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone." - Lord Byron

03/04/2026

Check out Office News for March! Now available on my website.

Dr Sara’s Office News - March 2026 Edition Featured Article: Spring Clean Your Life There are two approaches to dealing with anything in life:  restore or reorganize. In healthcare, we mostly look at the restoration option. When we are sick, we want to go back to not being sick. Wh

03/02/2026

Quote of the week: "Our feelings are the barometer of the soul. They are the measure of our thinking." - Syd Banks

02/25/2026

This week's blog is called The Energy Behind Every Moment - Discovering Mind

In part one of this blog series, we looked at the idea that there is a set of foundational principles that determine our human experience of life and how navigating life gets really easy once you see these principles at work.

The first principle we will explore is called Mind.

Mind is the intelligence of the Universe. No less.

It's the energy that runs the show. It's what beats your heart every moment of your life. It grows acorns into oak trees and orange seeds into orange trees. It's the innate intelligence in each of our cells, orchestrating the beautiful dance of our DNA at every breath. It's the energy that directs the exact right protein to be built in our cells at the exact right time to craft a salivary enzyme to digest our food on demand.

It's how bats know where to go and how birds navigate across continents. It's the pulse of the planet and the soul of our being. Some call it nature. Others call it God. It's the actual energy of the Universe.

And we can feel it.

The fact that we can feel the energy of life itself is mind-boggling. We're built to feel it.

It's that feeling of vitality or aliveness that runs in your veins or along your skin. It's the flow state that takes you over and spits you out six hours later, exhausted, with chapters of new writing on your computer. It's the shine in your baby's eyes. It's the love that won't go away or be ignored, even when you think you don't want it.

It's the idea that wakes you up at 3 a.m., and you need to work out on paper before you can go back to sleep. It's the energy that infuses your bones and muscles during the performance of your life. It's also in the quiet moments when you're so calm and at peace for no reason other than it's dusk and you love the quality of the light as it fades into night once again.

By focusing on the feeling of the energy of aliveness, the feeling builds and builds until we're living in a different world where everything is energizing.

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02/23/2026

Quote of the week: "Keep some room in your heart for the Unimaginable." - Mary Oliver

02/18/2026

This week's blog is the first in a six-part series. Here's an excerpt:

Part One: Why Understanding Life’s First Principles Changes Everything

I'd always been trained to look to first principles if you wanted to truly understand something.

It's a way of thinking about the world around us that begins with the foundation of something. If you have a problem, look to the first principles or rules about the subject to see where the cause of the problem originates.

First principles thinking can be applied to anything and everything. If you want to use a new appliance effectively and calmly, learning how it works gives you confidence and ease like no other.

Take Bluetooth, for example. When it first appeared, I didn't understand what it was. I could never get it to work. Well-meaning people would say to me, “Just connect your phone and play your music at the gym,” or “You can stream a podcast wirelessly to this speaker.” But no matter how hard I tried, it wouldn't connect—or it would for a bit and then stop. Most often, it just said it couldn't find anything to pair with.

It was frustrating.

My “bluetoothing” results were limited and variable because I didn't understand the principles behind how it worked.

I was doing random actions and attributing cause to them.

I started believing things I'd made up, like: Bluetooth just isn't for me, my phone isn't powerful enough, I'm not the kind of person who can do tech things, life just doesn't work out for me… All of which looks hilarious now.

I'm using Bluetooth seamlessly all the time, whenever I want. 100% of the time.

The difference came when my husband heard me complain. Something I said prompted him to go, “Wait a minute!” He explained it's not internet-based—it's a radio signal. OMG! Everything changed. It all made sense. It was so easy. I knew exactly what to do to connect it.

I'd been operating on a misunderstood premise and acting in ways that made no sense and were ineffective for what I wanted.
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Untriggered: Discovering the Three Principles That Dissolve Triggers, Anxiety, and Stress A six-part blog series for regaining the power to live your life how you want.   Part One: Why Understanding Life’s First Principles Changes Everything I'd always been trained to look to first p

02/17/2026

Quote of the week: "We carry within us the wonders we see without us." - Rumi

02/12/2026

"The Hulk vs. Captain Marvel" Who is the most powerful superhero of them all? Read this week's blog to find out! You may be surprised.

You can find it here: https://www.liveyouralivelife.com/blog/the-hulk-vs-captain-marvel

02/09/2026

Quote of the week: "By listening, just listening, we become secret weapons of love." - Sara Joy O'Neill

02/04/2026

This week's blog is entitled "Do we 'Store' Thought?" In it, I ask the question, "What is 'stored thought', anyway?"

You can find the blog on my Live Your Alive Life website: www.liveyouralivelife.com/blog/do-we-store-thought

02/02/2026

Quote of the week: "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." - Alan Watts