Gratitude is a way of connecting to the world and those in it. It turns your mind toward what's going right in your life.
I am grateful for:
A warm house
Neighbors who help each other out
Music
Incongruities
So I think we are starting Week 2, but, Wait! Wait! I am still working on concentration. Wait! Wait! I have been doing this since 2008 and I am still on Week 1. Jeez, Meredith, hurry up and get it together. Get with the program! OR REAL HAPPINESS...
In order to find a solution we first have to recognise that there is a problem. Then we can get to work on how the problem can be solved. ... Both men and women need to publicize and condemn any abusive behavior of which they are aware and to...
I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. - Laurie Anderson
It's a stormy day here in New York City, and it will apparently get worse over the next 24 hours. I'm taking this time to contemplate, listen to, and participate in the act...
Last week I mentioned that I was going to meditate every morning for thirty minutes. After a few brief activities to relieve my body’s discomfort, I sat down each day for the session and worked with the simple technique of lowering my gaze more than...
Some of us have joined a 30-day yoga and meditation challenge starting tomorrow, Saturday, February 9. If you would like to be a part of the group, please friend me on FB and I will add you. If you're not on FB, feel free to comment and check in on...
“The Main cause of inaccurate fear is that we’ve acquired certain conceptual frameworks for how we meet our experience in ways that that are out of touch with what’s going on.”—Ethan Nichtern
"Fear is a natural reaction when moving closer to the truth"--Pema Chodron
Imagine gratitude & growth as a result from venturing into the unknown.
When repetition compulsion creates a sense of fear in our brain waves, ...
I was drawn to my first Buddhist mindfulness retreat during a time when my son, Narayan, was four, and I was on the verge of divorce. During a slow, icy drive through a winter snowstorm on the way to the retreat center, I had plenty of time to...
The process of concentration is one of gathering. We gather all our scattered attention and energy, and we bring it together, we bring it home. The result of that gathering is that we attain access to all the energy that is not usually available to...
Coming back to Sharon Salzberg's Real Happiness practice again feels like Spring Training in baseball; I'm back to working on the basics, the skills drills. I've got nothing else to do for 28 days but refine the bedrock of the game, the basics of...
Gratitude is a way of connecting to the world and those in it. It turns your mind toward what's going right in your life.
I am grateful for:
A warm house
A spouse who cooks
Knowing that everything changes.
People who keep showing up.
In this article posted in The Guardian, The Mind With Heart Network is described as dedicated to giving children the space to “investigate what happiness, empathy, altruism, and compassion are.” Founded by a group of four educators in the UK in 2010...
In Real Happiness, Sharon Salzberg begins by explaining some of the basics of a mediation practice. Since I have a practice, I thought I would share some of my basics.
If you're my friend on Facebook, you know that I share a lot of links. I think of Facebook as a community bulletin board or an envelope of newspaper and magazines clippings that I want to send off to my friends. Here's a bunch of stuff I think is...
Daily Sit invites you to practice meditation with a live online community. Inspired by "Sitting Project," a daily meditation piece, Kim Brown and I thought it would be supportive to the community to offer an online interactive presence for...
To be mindful of the self, in various states,is quite the challenge in a circulation of distractions.
Taming the vicious velocity of rabid reactions is apersonal, private, & partially shaming experience,for the struck individual &/or...
