you can’t win if you don’t play
Experiment infusing your meditation time with playful qualities such as curiosity, lightness, awe, and child-like delight in the present moment’s unfolding. The…
in praise of maladjustment
Who is maladjusted? It is someone who lost the ability to be surprised. We must re-learn how to be surprised. Alice Walker…
nurture your resilience
Realize that for many our negativity bias is on steroids right now, and that’s OK. Notice the lovely things that happen…
lucid dreaming and meditation
Just as in a moment of lucid dreaming we realize Wow, I’m dreaming, we can similarly realize while meditating Wow, I’m thinking….
a moment of well-being
Despite all that is wrong, I can still take delight in a moment of well-being. News stories are not the conversation starters…
a peaceful, uneasy feeling
I feel that I should be above it all, but mostly I’m not. I struggle with my emotions. Practicing mindfulness of emotions…
suffering is natural
As a species we seem to have solidified a very real revulsion for the inevitable, as well as toward the smaller slights…
savor the resistance
Do we feel we are missing out on some better, or more spiritual, experience by being stuck with a mountain of laundry,…
no self help
Mindfulness meditation leaves the self-help mindset in the dust by challenging the existence of the very thing we are setting out to…
everyday mysticism
There is a way to live your ordinary life in pristine peace and joy just as it is right now. This is…
emotions
I would like to address a couple of misconceptions I often hear regarding meditation and one’s emotional life. The first is we…
boredom
The creator of a popular Mindfulness app was on Jimmy Fallon Live last Friday night talking about how boredom happens because we…
the lychees, or letting go of thinking
The work of meditation is finding a home in the present moment and letting go of anything that tries to pull you…
drink deep
Meditation practice is about coming back to love and compassion, and celebrating the one who is doing it, AKA self-compassion. In one…
mindfulness: unfolding into wholeness
I was recently reading a very inspiring book by Mary O’Malley, the title of which I love: What is in the Way…
the monkey pod tree in the beach park
Life just as it is, is eloquent. The world is its own magic. We need to need to stop seeking some additional…
wholeness and redemptive suffering
Redemptive suffering suggests that even in pain, there’s potential for positive change. We’ll look at practical ways to apply it in the…
