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‘Just like me’…

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

Just like me… you have a mind & body. You experience thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations; joy & happiness; pain & sorrow; love & anger; fear & courage; success & failure, etc. Together we aspire to love & be loved; to learn & grow; to be happy & fulfilled; to be free from suffering, etc. […]

‘Effort & Relaxation’

Wednesday, May 20th, 2020

To experience genuine clarity of mind, we need to cultivate relaxed self-awareness- an abiding form of attention that’s balanced with neither too much nor too little effort. We sustain our focused attention with an open, nonjudgmental attitude… receptive and non-reactive… curious and inquisitive to know the nature of how our mind works in creating our […]

‘An Experiential Shift’

Monday, May 11th, 2020

Practice… practice… practice. Cultivating self-awareness can help ‘shift’ the way we experience and relate to the activities of our mind/heart and body. With the energy & light of mindfulness, we can awaken to realize that our thoughts & emotions are not existential in nature. They need not define us. We can simply experience them as […]

‘Failure & Recovery’

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

How do we view our failures? Can we honestly and confidently accept our failings as simply part of our recovery process? Through refined self-awareness of our cognitive & emotional patterns toward our unsuccessful efforts, we can begin to notice the conditions that feed into our inner response system. By paying close attention, we can recognize […]

‘Awareness’ to know better…

Monday, April 27th, 2020

This penetrating ‘light’ of awareness has the inherent ability to illuminate our patterns of mind when we can be still, relaxed, open, and focused with regular practice. In its refined state, it can generate a higher form of energy capable of penetrating and short-circuiting even the deeply ingrained patterns of thoughts, feelings, judgments, and convictions […]

‘Nonjudgmental Observation’

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Gentle, nonjudgmental observation is a practice that helps us to recognize and better understand the nature of our innate tendencies to ‘hold on’- and to attach to certain thought & feeling patterns that arise from our internal responses (or reactions) to situations. It is this relaxed, balanced and abiding attention that also helps us to […]

STOP

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020

Step back Take a breath Observe Proceed with… It is taking this time to simply reflect on one’s situation before moving forward with either one’s words or actions. It is in this momentary space of simply being that we may discover a new pattern for responding rather than reacting to each new situation.

Pain vs. Change

Monday, April 20th, 2020

Part of our ‘human condition’ is our innate tendency to avoid pain. It is often desire for ‘avoidance’ that prevents us from starting or sustaining new habits in life. The energy behind our desire to avoid pain tends to be stronger than the motivational force underlying our intention to make positive changes in our lives. […]

‘Stepping Out’…

Saturday, April 18th, 2020

A curious mind helps us to search “outside of the box”… to explore outside of our ‘comfort zone’… to stretch ourselves… and to be flexible with thinking & doing in new ways…

‘Seeds of Mind’

Thursday, April 16th, 2020

The mind is like a garden… and ‘home’ to many different kinds of seeds. It knows no discretion as to what is seeded, rooted, and to what may ultimately flourish in its ‘soil’. The mind is receptive to whatever we ‘plant’ in it- ‘flowers’ & ‘weeds’- whether we are aware of it or not. Left […]