Focused & relaxed breathing helps to create more space in awareness between incoming information (stimulus) and our outgoing response… more space between our thoughts & our urges to act reflexively. In this breathing space, we may realize more appropriate choices for situations as we become better able to regulate the seemingly habitual and automatic tendencies […]

What holds us back? What keeps us ‘stuck’ from moving forward into a healthier, more peaceful place in our lives? What do we resist in our lives… and why? Is our resistance a function of our inability to simply accept life as it is… here & now? Can we not skillfully let go of our […]

Equanimity is a mindset that’s evenly balanced- when we are fully engaged yet not indulged. Our awareness is grounded without judgment, opinion, or assumption. We are calm, composed, with relaxed alertness… simply experiencing & accepting the actuality of what is happening in the present moment with willful intent & abiding attention. It is this ‘middle […]

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 […]