The weather has been really beautiful lately, so I've had the windows open quite a bit more than usual. Where I live, that means city noises, and since I live near a hospital, that means sirens. I've noticed though, that the sirens outside are no...
I've been meditating for years, but like a lot of things we do routinely I think I've gotten a little sloppy with it lately. So, I'm hitting the reset button, trying to put a little more intention behind the mindfulness part of mindful meditation....
I’ll never ask AI to summarize my morning pages. Of course I repeat myself - my worries - my dreams That’s the point. The repetition is the key to what is unresolved, to what is important. The path to change - from the pen - to the page - to the...
What could this picture possibly have to do with meditation, mediocre or otherwise? Well, this is the view I have from my little nest, the comfy chair big enough that I can sink in to it with my legs folded up and meditation every morning, usually...
My personal meditation practice took an interesting turn when I came across this book recently. It talks about a modern interpretation of an ancient Tibetan practice called Chöd. I'm pretty sure we have all had thoughts, feelings, or even physical...
Once in a great while, when I am meditating and I do that body scan thing . . . I can’t find all the edges between me and everything else . . . Like, where do my hands begin and end . . . And it’s amazing and...
It’s a noisy world, and I think a lot about trying to find the signal in all the noise that matches the rhythm I want for my life. And that’s why I meditate.
Anything involving water - me in the water, me around the water - just makes meditation better for me. That's why I have to share this experience even though it was years ago - it was called a Himalayan Sound Bath. It took place in a swimming pool...
At our house, this quote from Victor Frankel is often repeated: Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Cultivating that space, and the...
Do you have a favorite kind of breath work? There are lots of patterns that help to regulate, stimulate, and relax. What I've noticed, though, is that left to my own devices I spend far more time taking in than letting out, so when I have a...