Questions & Responses on Mindfulness
Taking common questions about mindfulness and meditation and providing responses.
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Walking as Meditation
There are so many things that can become objects of our meditation. When we chose to focus on one thing with our attention during formal meditation we have chosen an “object”. This is where we keep attention for the duration of our practice. When we lose concentration, then we return our attention to our chosen… Continue reading
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Pocket Practices
This talk is about keeping our mindfulness practices alive and fresh as we proceed through our days. Enjoy! Continue reading
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Refuge, Intention, Vow
Explore how confirming where we take refuge, what we wish our intention to be, and how we set a vow can help us in challenging situations. Continue reading
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Cultivating the 3Cs: Care, Compassion, Connection
Each and everyone of us are or will struggle and suffer due to events often beyond our control. These may be personal in the form of death, illness, accident, and misfortune. Or it could be related to the state of affairs in the communities within which we live and operate. We may feel especially affected… Continue reading
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The Power of Mindfulness: Aligning Aspirational and Actual Self
Many of us have this little personal representative that lives behind our forehead. This mirror image expresses our deepest wishes and aspirations as well as being our largest critic and judge. Our actual self is that part of us that goes about daily business out of habit and on automatic pilot. Between these two, our… Continue reading
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Understanding Thoughts in Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness practice is training in concentration, attention, and cultivating discernment of experience. To develop concentration we focus our attention on a single object of meditation, such as the breath, and return attention to the object when we notice we are distracted. To cultivate discernment we keep focusing a little closer to the object of our… Continue reading
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Kristina’s Story
In a previous blog I wrote about the benefits of contemplative practices, especially meditation. Here I would like to tell you about one person’s journey with meditation. Kristina first came to see me as a psychotherapy client. She was suffering from anxiety and was having a very difficult time getting a hold of it in… Continue reading
Being Present 