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Archive for July, 2015
Awakening
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015‘Minding the gap’.. is this quiet & open ‘space’ giving rise to intuition- to insight nestled in between our thoughts, feelings, and sensations. This is the ‘shift’ between our experiences- our ‘events’ of mind & body.
‘First Thought.’
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015How do we engage this ‘1st thought’? How do we relate to it? From here, what follows… the cycle of additional thoughts… the feelings about these thoughts… and the bodily sensations experienced from the preconditioned imprints of our emotions? Aware of this ‘1st thought’ begins a whole new process of what may come to be […]
‘Mind Clutter.’
Monday, July 13th, 2015We are habitually preoccupied and often entertained with our ‘mind clutter’- streaming discursive thought patterns about our perceived world. Caught up in our perpetually unfolding ‘storylines’, we are often reflexively confused and impulsively reactive- hardly reflective and responsive. The simple mindfulness practice of paying careful attention to our breath and the present moment takes us […]
Awakening
Monday, July 13th, 2015Sitting here with yourself in your own time & space, there’s just an experience. Can you simply appreciate the experience for what it is… as it is… while it is?
Wise Action
Saturday, July 11th, 2015Not knowing, we PAUSE without any action. We open ourselves freeing attention, listen and notice. We allow the situation to reveal itself without any preconceptions or knee-jerk reactions. Clarity arises in an atmosphere that is quiet and calm. Here, there is ‘space’ for glimpses of insight to stream their revealing ‘light’. If we are patient […]
Awakening
Saturday, July 11th, 2015What’s actually happening in the present moment? What should I now do?
Awakening
Friday, July 10th, 2015The mind needs reference points to make associations to things it thinks it may know. These reference points lodged in our “memory banks” are reassurances to interpretative certainties.