When thinking about self care commitments, what leads you to the well-being you are hoping for? Before one takes up a practice of self support or self healing it is essential to investigate if we are engaging in self care with a “little s, self” or “big S, Self.” In...
I left the big city about 20 years past and the smaller city nearly 6 years ago. Now I live in a sleepy town that affords me many luxuries, one of which is not having to lock my car. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t; I always return to it undisturbed. This was not...
Mindfulness practice can invite us to allow our experience to be as it is, opening to, accepting it. Mindfulness can also help us to take wise action, and to incline the mind away from unhelpful thoughts. Find out more about these practices with this pithy teaching....
One of my mindfulness teachers James Baraz sometimes says, “You think you’re making progress in your mindfulness practice until you go home.” Ahhh, the blessings of family and the years of history we have with them, and the years of memory aka, neural habits,...
Years ago while preparing for a retreat I was to teach, I noticed that as I was thinking over the topics and themes for the retreat I kept gripping. As mindfulness invites us to do, I checked into myself to see what the tension was. I became aware that I was...
Remember vinyl records? The way the turn table revolves? The sound of the needle as you place it down on the record? Picture yourself setting the needle in the first groove, it needle winds itself along the well-worn track, singing the whole song from start to...
Feel more centered, less "Go go go", and more like yourself in just 5 minutes. Really! Quick - Simple - Ahhhhh... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQFmFslCVCU
“Mama, I hate you,” said my little girl, looking up at me with sadness and anger in her eyes. This from a girl who really loves her mama. She’s my daughter who often says she does not want to go to school or even playdates because she would rather “be with mama.” On...
Mindfulness Meditation - the light of awareness- click here Last month I wrote about the light of kind awareness in my blog post. This month you can use this guided meditation to practice finding your own light of kind awareness. Spend a few minutes practicing...
“Mindfulness doesn’t care.” That is what my teaching partner said to the group of teenagers who eagerly listened, hungry to learn from us. I get (and love) where she was coming from, however, the way I like to phrase it is that mindfulness has no hierarchy of...