This is a relatively challenging puzzle for children (sometimes their parents too) that helps them to think outside of the box- expanding the boundaries of thought & perception. While engaged in this exercise children’s thought patterns and conventional perception often limit their ability to creatively work through the puzzle outside of its 4-sided (square) boundaries. […]

The practice of mindfulness meditation can open our inner capacity of awareness, and the wisdom of our own true nature to remain focused, peaceful, and abiding with the stress and distress we experience in our lives. Our routine discipline of attending- taming, stabilizing, and recalibrating the habitually reactive nature of our minds has prepared us […]

Simply being, we step out of conventional time into the spaciousness & timelessness of our own awareness. With patience and spaciousness of mind, we may create the necessary room for greater clarity, tolerance, and understanding. Instead of pushing back our experiences we may now allow them to arise and reveal their true nature…fundamentally trusting our […]

Sitting without attachment- without aversion… simply noticing, acknowledging, letting be & letting go, the mind begins to soften. It becomes more flexible and amenable to things as they are. Sitting with this ease of mind, we become more calm, relaxed, and stable. Things seem to become naturally clearer as we are less bound by the […]

Naturally curious & caring our children are primed & ready for mindfulness. Children have a natural tendency to be more readily in the here & now. They are less preoccupied by the activities of mind- ruminating about the past or anticipating the future, and more likely to be engaged by the prospect of direct and […]

Turning inward not away brings freedom to the courageously inspired. If we are willing to see the ‘whole’ of our lives as practice, our awareness of the moments when we are not present, coupled with our intention to awaken, brings us into the present. From here we stand on the solid ground of our own […]

We may expand our ‘window of tolerance’ through awareness & compassion. Resilience is our ability to ‘roll’ with life’s ups and downs. It’s our built-in capacity for ‘flexibility’- being able to shift attitude & perspective, discern options & possibilities, as well as make wiser choices. It’s balance and centeredness enabling us to ‘stay the course’ […]

To repeatedly take PAUSE with intentional & purposeful (mindful) awareness, we can ready ourselves to interrupt the reactionary chain of our ‘habit energy’– a highly conditioned & incessant tendency to keep moving, running, thinking, talking and filling up space- a ‘churning’, ‘chattering’, and ‘impulsive’ mind that entrenches us to be everywhere else but fully present. […]

The power of our words can have a lasting impact on another person’s state of mind… and state of being. We must ask ourselves before speaking how we would like the other to feel upon hearing our words. Our words can and do make a difference in the lives of others, and it is important […]

Are you ‘charged’ to live the life that is your own? This precious life is our own. With this gift, there is personal responsibility, authority, sovereignty, and power to journey in our own authentic Way. Taking control of what is our own potential to become, we step out of the ‘shadows’ of others and into […]