mental-health
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The Truth About My Practice
I just returned from a three week vacation somewhere warm. We returned to an additional two feet of snow and two more snow storms in less than two weeks! Yay the north. Returning to our usual routine has brought awareness about how I actually work with my practice. While I have been a long time… Continue reading
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Working with the Gaps
Our practice of mindfulness, especially our formal meditation practice leads us to eventually work with two gaps. The first is the gap between stimulus and response and the second is the gap between our beliefs and our actions. Committing to a formal mindfulness meditation practice and practicing moments of mindfulness as we go through our… Continue reading
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Quieting to Transform
Someone recently said to me that they were ready to have some shift, change, or other transformation in their life. They went on to say that they would be attending a weekend retreat for the first time and hoped something would arise from that. My first thought was, “Of course it will!” Diving a little… 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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How Can I Keep My Meditation Going?
I like to think in terms of supporting my practice. There are so many ways we can build a structure around our mediation practices to hold and support the building of the habit. Eventually we would like our practices to become second nature, a lot like brushing our teeth or getting dressed in the morning… Continue reading
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Why should I consider setting an intention for my mindfulness practice?
“Intentions are the primary or underlying motivations for what we think, say or do.” Gil Fronsdal Setting an intention solidifies exactly what we would like to have happen. It might be an overarching life desire such as intending to be happy, successful, or wealthy. Or it can be something simple such as wanting to listen… Continue reading
Being Present 