How can you be your best self? Who do you want to be in the world? Do you dare to imagine a vision of you as a healthy, peaceful, balanced person physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually? Or do you lack a clear vision of yourself at your best but long for one or two aspects […]
Embracing love, we find peace and happiness. Being entangled in judgment and anger, we create suffering. When encountering conflict and/or fear in regards to relationships with others, the tendency may be to judge, blame, or turn away from the other—either emotionally turning away and/or physically turning away, none of which results in the sense of […]
Opening to a new perspective can help us to reduce stress and increase a sense of peace and happiness. Our lives begin to change the moment we become willing to see things from a new perspective. We sometimes become locked into a rigid way of seeing things in an attempt to protect ourselves from fear, […]
True intimacy is an experience of deeply seeing and being seen, knowing and being known. It is built on a firm foundation of honesty, presence, and trust. In order to experience intimacy with another, we must be willing to become intimate with ourselves, with our own experience. We experience the world through sensations in the […]
Nature awareness mindfulness practices can facilitate a deeper connection with ourselves and nature. This past weekend while walking outdoors, I happened upon a flock of white ibis that flew directly overhead, back and forth three or four times. I felt an overwhelming sense of wonder and awe and a feeling of connection with something much […]
Pause breathe connect with mindfulness. Though it runs contrary to our mind’s mistaken beliefs, we truly begin to come alive only when we slow down to pause breathe, and connect with ourselves. Connecting with ourselves means checking in with the state of our body, listening to its needs, and acting in response to those needs. […]
Don’t postpone joy. There are 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows in the world, and keeping this in mind can help us to maintain a balanced perspective during times of joy and sorrow. During times of loss, illness, confusion, or just the routine of our daily grind, it’s sometimes easy to become preoccupied by the difficulty, […]
Change your mind, and you can change your perspective, mood, and state of wellbeing. If we don’t care for our thoughts, they are naturally inclined to focus on worrying about the future, regretting the past, worrying about what others think of us, or engaging in critical commentary about anything in the present and how it […]
Being authentic means wholeheartedly embracing your true nature and uniqueness. Mindfulness helps us to connect with our most authentic self. In the silence and the stillness, go in and in until you meet the essence of your authentic self. The quirks and the rough edges, the aspects of yourself that make you unique are what […]
Go with the flow is a mindfulness attitude that can help us to decrease stress and increase resilience. When we go with the flow, we notice that there are some things we cannot change. We recognize that fighting them increases stress, and practicing acceptance –acknowledging how things are then trying to adapt decreases stress. Life […]