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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
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Benefits of Contemplative Practices
Any contemplative practice benefits our minds, bodies, and spirits in many ways. What I mean by contemplative practice is any practice that is rooted in communion, connection, and awareness. These practices can take many forms. For instance the following areas are all considered contemplative practices: ~ Stillness: silence, centering, quieting the mind, meditation and prayer; Continue reading
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Forgiveness as a Meditation Practice
Many wonder how forgiveness becomes a mindfulness meditation topic. Explore the world of forgiveness and its relationship to meditation practice in this recording. The recording includes a short talk and a meditation practice. Please enjoy! Continue reading
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Missing Practice, Missing Life
My experience and that of my students is that when we miss practice we are avoiding something in our life as well. Whether it be strong emotions, troubling relationships, or events that leave us feeling powerless, we tend to avoid them, hoping these issues will simply disappear if we do not look at them. Christine Continue reading
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