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Archive for May, 2012

Awakening

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Awareness can short-circuit our emotional reactionary patterns- we can catch them on the rise before they have carried our attention away from what is directly being experienced.

Awakening

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

In our mindfulness practice, there is an openness that allows for a shift in “self-identity” to the space of awareness itself.

Awakening

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

How we attend is both an embodied and relational process…

Awakening

Monday, May 28th, 2012

The regulatory process of mind can be refined by how we pay attention- by how we observe the activities of mind.

Awakening

Sunday, May 27th, 2012

Mindfulness can help us to restore our inner measure- and to re-balance our doing with our being.

Awakening

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

It may be simple to be mindful, but remembering to be mindful can be quite difficult.

Awakening

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Why do so many of our days’ events seem to slip by us? Have we lost our sense of value in the ordinary? Are we even aware of how much we are missing?

Awakening

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

The transformative power of mindfulness lies in our direct experience of it- openly, curiously, and non-reactively.

Awakening

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

To meet our suffering- its nature and it cause- we simply need to stay in the present moment and observe with the light of mindfulness.

Awakening

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

It is in stillness that we learn to let go of our mental discourse- mind chatter– that prevents us from looking deeply into the nature of our own being.