Mindfulness practice can help us turn up the resolution on things we openly, quietly, and objectively observe. It is this resolution that brings a greater clarity, sharpness, and precision of things as they are witnessed in our field of awareness.

How does it feel to extend kindness to others… and to show genuine kindness to yourself? ‘Feeling felt’ is an embodied experience for me and for you. Kindness naturally softens the heart & calms the mind. It opens us up and conditions our mind to be more flexible and malleable. A kinder, gentler way is […]

Awareness… awareness… awareness. It’s all in how we CHOOSE to see, perceive and relate to our own lives. Through self-awareness, we come to notice how we are… how we think… how we feel… our patterns of mind… and the habitual responses that follow. We live and breathe CHANGE. Like the world around us, our perspective- […]

It’s not what we would like or don’t have, but all that we do have… It’s taking pause in our day… every day… to be still and simply reflect on what’s GOOD and what’s RIGHT about our own lives. We are enough and we have enough in our lives to be genuinely happy & content. […]

Here are some simple lifestyle changes that can help both to reduce stress and to increase your ability to cope with stress. Lifestyle changes to consider include: • Take ‘pause’ for self-awareness at regular intervals throughout your day. Notice what’s happening in your mind and in your body. Self-regulation arises from our ability to be […]

Perspective, Perspective, Perspective… It may be all in how we look- how we sense- how we perceive- and how we relate to what’s here & now. Unlike other animals, we have awareness of our mind that gives us the capacity to show- to know and to discern our way. Sensing, feeling, thinking, and ‘awarenessing’, we […]

There is this awakening- this realization that real ‘freedom’ requires us to learn to accept… and to let go. It is with this realization that we come to observe ourselves and our minds lightly, with compassion and understanding that what we may come to think or to feel is impermanent- rather ’empty’ without the energy […]

Gratitude… the thankfulness for what we have in our lives… and a healthy & fulfilling antidote for our continual desires. By regularly practicing gratitude, we can raise our level of happiness. By focusing on what is good & right about our lives, we can diffuse the energy behind what may be remotely lacking or inadequate. […]

Can our mindset affect our state of being? What happens to those thoughts and feelings we continuously reify? Are we what we seem to habitually think and feel? Can we compassionately separate ourselves from what we think and/or feel? Who is really thinking and feeling? Are these simply ‘events’ of mind and body manifesting as […]

Historically, the basic graphic elements (i.e. ‘dot’ & ‘spiral’) for this image has appeared as far back as 24,000 years. From the Neolithic to the early Celtic tribal people, it may have represented a sign of the ‘cosmos’- associated with bright stars of the constellations, or even the sun. Symbolically, it has always been a source […]