In this MOMENT… • take pause • take a breath • take notice • take care • take control It all may start with the purposeful intention to take back our lives by understanding the nature of our own minds- in the patterns for how we think, feel, and sense what we experience… moment by […]

Running just reinforces living out our highly conditioned tendency for “automaticity”… for busyness… for distraction… and for a fragmented way of life. How often do we use the word “run” in our daily language? Run to the store… Gotta run… Run to a meeting… Run to class… Run to the doctor… Run errands… Run out […]

In silence and stillness we dial in our capacity to pay attention- to focus- and to concentrate. With practice, the space of silence allows distraction to fall away as we simply and quietly observe with some ‘distance’ our impulse to indulge. With forbearance and curiosity we become more thoughtful, reflective, and insightful. As the ‘chatter’ […]

Can we look deeply at ourselves and into ourselves? Can we look deeply at each other? Can we begin to see the whole of what is ‘me’ and what is ‘you’? To look deeply at each other, we can begin to see more clearly what is different and and yet what is the same. It […]

The past is what is now. The future may become what is now. What can only be experienced is what is now. All other ‘timely’ matters are merely conceptions of mind.

Coming home to ourselves, we discover the friend who has always been there for us. It’s difficult to befriend a mind & body we often take for granted… diverting our attention elsewhere as what happens within us tends to run “automatically” unless there’s a problem, or unless we make the conscious effort to be still […]

“You can observe a lot by just watching” ~ Yogi Berra Through our regular mindfulness practice, we continually cultivate those qualities of mind and attention that nurture clarity and peace, selflessness and kindness- and at the same time, we come to recognize the impulses in ourselves toward self-righteousness, arrogance, aggression, cruelty, dominance, and indifference. This […]

These emotions we feel in this body are programmed deeply in our subconsciousness arising mainly from an evolutionary design in our primal brain. Like an internal guidance system, they serve mainly to protect and sustain us. The emotions we experience and feel in the body also often direct much of what we say and do- […]

The Way of ‘mindful intelligence’ is first & foremost, ordinary and accessible. There is nothing extraordinary or mystical about aspiring to live mindfully. Despite the numerous challenges we face in our lives, we can only transform our world by how we experience it. A mindfully intelligent person is one who has the resources- the insight- […]

We initially sense pain as a physical manifestation in the body. We feel the sensation of pain as we respond emotionally or affectively to it. Depending upon how we cognitively perceive and attribute meaning to it, we may subsequently magnify a painful experience. Filtered by our expectations, projections, and fears only compound the stress of […]