Awakening
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015There’s the ‘lived experience’ and then there’s the ‘cognitive experience’. Nearly 1/2 or our waking moments are spent distracted from our lived experiences caught up in the events of mind.
There’s the ‘lived experience’ and then there’s the ‘cognitive experience’. Nearly 1/2 or our waking moments are spent distracted from our lived experiences caught up in the events of mind.
We live in a culture devoted to distraction, and many of us appear driven by a daily mantra of…. “go, go, go!” Today’s world has brought us 24/7, real-time connectivity, with more data and stimuli than we can possibly process and assimilate. The streaming flows of information appear endless- and advancing technology is only further exasperating […]
What happens when we bring an unconditional openness into the stillness- into the silence of our practice?
Insight and creativity needs SPACE to manifest. We need to let go of some of the tasks in our daily lives to allow our GIFTS the room to grow & flourish…
Throughout many of these postings, I have made numerous references to our inherent capacity of “mindsight”. In descriptive terms, we might regard it as the light of our awareness, and the lens by which we direct our inner attention. It emanates from a quality of (open) awareness and (free) attention. It is highly sensitive, illuminated, […]
Gentle spaces in time- ‘quiet time’- with deliberate intention to be still for reflective & contemplative moments. This is our opportunity to show reverence & ease for ourselves- for practice and self-care.
What are we ‘running’ from? What are we ‘hiding’ from? Are we really that afraid of facing what may be only a ‘monster’ in our own mind?