Sitting Meditation- A Beautiful Place
This meditation is opening to a beautiful place that exists right in the heart of any moment– just as it is, easy, challenging and everything in-between.
Tag Archives: Mindfulness
Play As A Thing of Beauty [Part 2]
This is a second sharing on the importance of bringing a light playful attitude into our heart/mindfulness practice. As one researcher points out: “Play lies at the core of creativity and innovation and allows us to be free of the constraints of time and to experience a diminished consciousness of self. It allows us … Continue reading Play As A Thing of Beauty [Part 2]
Juneteenth, a Mindfulness Celebration [6.17.26]
It is so important for us to know our country’s history and celebrate the movements we have made in the direction of healing and wholeness. It is also so important to know where there is still so much more work to do and make a commitment as best as we are able to name the … Continue reading Juneteenth, a Mindfulness Celebration [6.17.26]
Paradigm Shifts and Mindfulness Practice
Paradigm shifts are when we come to understand that what we took as a reality is, in fact, not the deeper truth of things and it startles our systems enough into seeing the ourselves, each other or the the world through a whole new lens. Feeling into paradigm shifts helps shed light on the basic … Continue reading Paradigm Shifts and Mindfulness Practice
Sitting Meditation- Coming Home Again [2.18.26]
In this meditation we explore the different feel of being caught in the reactive mind and those moments, no matter how small, when the body, mind and heart are in attunement. This attunement is what we are pointing to as “mindfulness,” and when we are aware of it, it has a natural sense of coming … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Coming Home Again [2.18.26]
Acceptance Part 2 [10.1.25]
We explore three necessary steps for a healing, empowering acceptance that more deeply engages us with meeting life as it is.
Sitting Meditation- Welcoming [10.3.25]
How does welcoming things as they are– not as we want them to be, but as they actually are in this moment now– open to healing? This meditation is a chance to explore working with a radical, freeing “welcoming” of our own selves as a first step.
What is Skillful, Empowering Acceptance?
Acceptance is a mind/heart quality that is so easily misunderstood… What is the difference between a reactive (i.e. fight/flight/freeze) misunderstanding this quality and an empowering opening to life? How might engaging with “acceptance” actually release some old story that holds us back and thereby free us for a transformative new understanding of life and how … Continue reading What is Skillful, Empowering Acceptance?
Mindfulness of Elements
Contemplating our “elemental” nature is a powerful way of breaking apart a sense of a separate self and understanding how fundamentally we are part of a flow of all things.
When We Wake Up “Empty and Frightened”
Night time worries, sleeplessness and morning “dread” are all prevalent as we deal anxiety in our changing world. In this sharing, we will explore a neuroscience based understanding of why this is so common and how mindfulness practice offers a clear antidote. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open … Continue reading When We Wake Up “Empty and Frightened”