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Archive for January, 2016

Awakening

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

Switching from one task to the next- multi-tasking- has its cognitive cost as our attention becomes more fragmented in the process of trying to juggle multiple acts of doing.

Taking Your Seat – “Counting Breaths”

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

  We have highly developed thinking minds that are easily distracted from objects of attention- and for those who are new to meditation this persistent “thinking” has a way of making it quite difficult if not impossible to relax and remain focused on anything let alone our own breath. An effective technique to help keep […]

Awakening

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

Too little concentration and there may be boredom. Too much concentration and there may be frustration and anxiety. With the right effort and concentration, there may be effortlessness… a state of flow.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

the effort is relaxed…

Awakening

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

Space to see. Space to sense. Space to feel. Space to know. Space to respond. Sitting in the ‘zone’ there is this clarity to reflect before we act.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

space, reflection, action…

Emotions & Decision Making

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

These emotions we feel in this body are programmed deeply in our subconsciousness arising mainly from an evolutionary design in our primal brain. Like an internal guidance system, they serve mainly to protect and sustain us. The emotions we experience and feel in the body also often direct much of what we say and do- […]

Awakening

Monday, January 18th, 2016

When the ‘auto-pilot’ is engaged, and we experience a familiar stimulus, the response evoked is typically the ‘same’… over and over again. It’s only when ‘awareness’ takes over, and there becomes ‘space’ between stimulus and response do we alter the course of a programmed reaction.

Ordinary & Accessible Enlightenment

Monday, January 18th, 2016

The Way of ‘mindful intelligence’ is first & foremost, ordinary and accessible. There is nothing extraordinary or mystical about aspiring to live mindfully. Despite the numerous challenges we face in our lives, we can only transform our world by how we experience it. A mindfully intelligent person is one who has the resources- the insight- […]

Monday, January 18th, 2016

space to respond…