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Archive for January, 2016
‘Pain.’
Sunday, January 17th, 2016We initially sense pain as a physical manifestation in the body. We feel the sensation of pain as we respond emotionally or affectively to it. Depending upon how we cognitively perceive and attribute meaning to it, we may subsequently magnify a painful experience. Filtered by our expectations, projections, and fears only compound the stress of […]
Awakening
Sunday, January 17th, 2016We are emotional thinkers. We are emotional decision makers… often feeling and sensing our way towards what we ultimately say and do.
Awakening
Saturday, January 16th, 2016On the cushion and in life, we’re always starting over and starting over and starting over again.
‘Just like me.’
Saturday, January 16th, 2016United by our humanity- our strengths & vulnerabilities- our compassionate & destructive ways- our gains & losses- our pleasures & pains- our health & sickness- our impermanence & suffering. We may seem so different yet we share so much in the same. Imperfectly perfect we are all challenged to accept the perpetual paradoxes we experience […]
Understanding Our Emotional Mind
Friday, January 15th, 2016Emotions seem to have their own reasons- their own logic. The emotional- the primal mind is far quicker than the rational/cognitive mind springing into action without pausing even a moment to consider what it is doing. Actions that spring from the emotional mind carry a particularly strong sense of certainty- a streamlined, simplified way of […]
Awakening
Friday, January 15th, 2016‘Yes’ may indicate our acceptance of what is happening, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s okay.
Awakening
Wednesday, January 13th, 2016Strong emotions don’t have to entangle and consume us. We are not what we think or feel. We can learn to be present with what we feel strongly simply for self-discovery.