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Archive for December, 2015
‘Be Yourself.’
Thursday, December 31st, 2015Perhaps 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, 2015Our 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, 2015By 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.
‘Mental States.’
Wednesday, December 30th, 2015Through 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, 2015Sinking 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.
Awakening
Monday, December 28th, 2015As 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, 2015Can 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. […]