Awakening
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017Simply focus on a singular object of attention like the breath. This is the practice, and there is no right or wrong way to do it… SIMPLY DO IT.
Archive for January, 2017
Our ‘Mental Radar’… Mindfulness
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017Mindfulness is like a ‘mental radar’… sensitively detecting changes that require our undivided attention even before they may become apparent in the field of our conscious awareness. The more we work with our inner capacity for awareness in stillness & calm, the more refined, focused, and precise it can become at noticing even the subtlest […]
Mindfully Me, ‘Curiosity’
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017The world we live in is one big ADVENTURE! It is always available for us to explore and to examine… and where there is interest… there is inquiry. Curiosity is our natural inclination to keep awareness wide open & “fresh” for discovering and for learning new things. It moves & motivates us even in difficult […]
‘Happiness’
Monday, January 16th, 2017Happiness is a way of being. It means figuring out ways in which we can be happy despite what we might experience on occasion. Happiness has much to do with the big “A” word- ATTITUDE- even in the face of mildly to moderately negative events that may routinely occur in our day-to-day lives. How we […]
Awakening
Monday, January 16th, 2017This practice of mindfulness is not only something that happens in the here & now, it is also something that can transform our here & now.
A•HA… ‘Art of Noticing’
Friday, January 13th, 2017The ‘art of noticing’… as we intentionally continue to practice paying attention… remembering what’s directly happening in our moment by moment awareness, we begin to sense, feel & witness more detail, texture & freshness in our lives. With this open awareness & free attention, we tend to respond more and react less to ‘events’ as […]
Freely Observing What Is…
Thursday, January 12th, 2017Being aware of ourselves… how we are… and as we are… can be a truly liberating experience. Awareness can help us become free of our continuously thinking & habitual mind simply by how we pay attention to it. Here & now, as the conscious observer, we all have the inner capacity to bear witness within the […]