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Archive for October, 2015
Awakening
Monday, October 12th, 2015With old age and maturity, we have two primary objectives- stay healthy and sane in a wise and loving manner.
‘Know Your Mind’
Monday, October 12th, 2015To know who we are is know our own mind- to know our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions… to know our beliefs, opinions, desires, and attachments. To know our perception of the world is to know our mind… our attitudes & dispositions for how we are and for how we relate. Often what changes how we […]
Awakening
Sunday, October 11th, 2015We cannot create what is already here. Awareness is what we come back to. When it is clear, we have remembered to come back undistracted.
The Brain’s ‘Search Engine’
Saturday, October 10th, 2015The hippocampus is like the brain’s ‘search engine’. It is primarily responsible for long-term memory, but it also helps us to link & integrate together images, emotions, and sensations of ‘implicit’ (unconscious recall) & ‘explicit’ memories (conscious recall). This mental process is like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle assembled in the light of awareness and […]
Awakening
Saturday, October 10th, 2015It is those qualities that we’re most reactive to in others that are often the ones we have least accepted in ourselves.
‘Relationality.’
Friday, October 9th, 2015This ‘relationality’ is about how we ‘see’ ourselves in relationship to what is arising- either within us or outside us. When observing our experiences through awareness- through a lens of mindfulness- of wholeness and connectedness- we tend to ‘see’ and respond with greater objectivity, clarity, balance, and stability. To ‘see’ with mindfulness helps us to […]