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Archive for December, 2015

Thursday, December 31st, 2015

suffering is optional…

‘Be Yourself.’

Thursday, December 31st, 2015

Perhaps one of our greatest challenges in life is being who we truly are while distancing ourselves from the impulses to be someone else. We live our life inventing and creating who we are. So much energy, effort, and time goes into crafting & cultivating the person we aspire or hope to become all the […]

Awakening

Thursday, December 31st, 2015

Our familiarity with chronic stress, busyness, and distraction, even chaos and frenzy, make it difficult if not impossible for many of us to simply relax. We have adapted to living “stressed out”.

Awakening

Wednesday, December 30th, 2015

By cultivating this attitude of acceptance and curiosity about even our painful experiences, we tend to diminish the emotional distress about them and can often even reduce our suffering.

Wednesday, December 30th, 2015

more curiosity, less suffering…

‘Mental States.’

Wednesday, December 30th, 2015

Through awareness training, we can simply observe our mental states as they arise, peak, and pass away. Experience with mindfulness practice can teach us that they are impermanent and ‘empty’, with only the energy of attention that we feed them. As we become more aware of our everyday mental states- simply witnessing & noticing them- letting […]

Awakening

Tuesday, December 29th, 2015

Sinking deeper into our object of attention with ‘open awareness’, we ‘settle in’- in this space, our concentration becomes more stable and subtle details once obscure appear clear.

Monday, December 28th, 2015

It is what it is…

Awakening

Monday, December 28th, 2015

As we drop our resistance and become more accepting, things begin to open up and our life tends to be ‘easier’.

‘Self-Compassion’

Monday, December 28th, 2015

Can you step into who you already are… not who you think you are? The releasing of what we already have is the meditation work. Receiving and accepting who we really are is fundamental to meditation practice.Without compassion for one’s self, there can be no real awakening to the ‘work’ that needs to be done. […]