Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
choosing the right thoughts…
Archive for November, 2014
Awakening
Saturday, November 22nd, 2014“Attentional blink” may be that subtle shift from focused awareness to something other than the object of our attention.
‘Emotional Outlook’
Saturday, November 22nd, 2014How do we perceive and relate to our emotions- our feeling or affective states of consciousness? How do they move us in one direction or another- positive or negative? How do they impact our outlook, our thinking style, our capacity to be happy and to ‘bounce back’ from adverse situations? Fundamentally, our emotions are messengers that […]
‘Remember’…
Friday, November 21st, 2014We all need to learn to take some time and to slow it down throughout our day… to REMEMBER to be present with what we are doing and why we are doing it. Remember what is. Let go of what has been and what may or not be sometime other than what is here in […]
Awakening
Friday, November 21st, 2014Emotional reactivity tends to narrow our attention unto what’s upsetting us while everything else around us seems to fade into the background as we remain fixated on our emotional being.
Awakening
Thursday, November 20th, 2014Where are we? Nearly 50% of our waking moments is spent wandering from “this” and “that”… from “what may be” or “what may have been”…
Awakening
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014We often have to ask the hard questions like… “what are we awakening to?”… and “awake, what will we do next to support a greater good than our own?”… etc.
‘Mental Afflictions’
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014‘Mental afflictions’ or ‘defilements’ such as anger, blame, jealousy, greed, etc., are often deeply rooted in the human condition. Their presence in our thoughts and actions tend to cause us a great deal of pain and suffering when we fail to openly and compassionately work through their nature of cause and effect. Unattended, their karmic […]