Awakening
Friday, September 20th, 2013Often our finest moments arise from those that have challenged our deepest capacity to stay the course despite our impulse to avoid the uncomfortable & uncertain.
Archive for September, 2013
Awakening
Thursday, September 19th, 2013The truth of our own IMPERFECTION… it’s a shared quality of being human.
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Wednesday, September 18th, 2013‘Relaxed concentration’ in any discipline is not possible when there is too much cognition. Our thinking must ‘slow’ along with our effort. Self-awareness is our baseline for this skillfulness.
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Tuesday, September 17th, 2013It’s a process of ‘self-care’ where we gradually learn to be ‘AWARE’. Sometimes we forget, but practicing mindfulness helps us to REMEMBER.
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Monday, September 16th, 2013We rest (breathe) in ‘awareness’ to steady our attention and to relax our concentration so that we may ‘see’ and ‘know’ more of what we truly experience.
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Sunday, September 15th, 2013Beneath our strong (negative) emotions, there is fear, and beneath the fear there is some form of fixed belief. Mindfulness practice can help us to uncover our fixed beliefs, and to better understand how they motivate our negative thoughts & feelings.
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Saturday, September 14th, 2013Becoming more mindful helps us to simply observe (non-judgmentally) our arising thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations- witnessing how they ‘come to be’ and ‘come to pass’- here & now- noticing without indulging them.
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Friday, September 13th, 2013In our practice, we consciously BREATHE to ‘REMEMBER’…
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Thursday, September 12th, 2013Too much cognition and too little intuition often leaves our field of perception imbalanced and habitually reactive.
Awakening
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013With mental and spiritual health often the lowest priority in health care only strengthens the need for integrating contemplative practices into our lives.