Are you afraid to be happy? Many people are in touch with a fear of failure or fear of never finding happiness. But what I see far more frequently in people is a fear of their own personal power, success and happiness. Being afraid to be happy may play a part in keeping yourself stuck. […]
How can we heal from LGBTQ violence? Violence toward anyone is unacceptable, and LGBTQ violence and homophobia continue to occur at an alarming rate. My heart is hurting this week with the news of the act of terrorism toward members of the LGBTQ community in Orlando. Please take the time this week to go within […]
Your true nature is to be happy and at peace. In each of us resides the inner light of our true nature—a capacity for boundless wisdom, infinite capability and immeasurable lovingkindness and compassion. Look into your heart. Follow your nature. –Buddha From the heart of our true nature, we are capable of transcending suffering and […]
How can we practice mindfulness and self-care? I’m often asked about how to develop and keep commitments to a regular meditation practice and other self-care practices. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation… Audre Lorde First, it’s important to make time. We won’t ever find the time. We must make the time and […]
Most of us would like to enjoy a life filled with freedom from fear. And yet, many of us limit our lives and our choices because of fear. We feel fear, and we stop expanding. We may feel stuck or motionless, believing that being still will protect us from feeling uncomfortable or overwhelmed or having […]
There are many different types of meditation, and mindfulness meditation students frequently ask me which practices they should work with. My answer is most often the same: Deepen your study and practice of meditation by engaging with different practices and noticing how your body, heart and mind feel in each practice. Notice what arises. There […]
Mindful Self-acceptance is a learned skill. One of our most painful habitual patterns as human beings is wanting things to be other than they are. We often turn this habit on ourselves, wanting to be other than we are. Rather than embracing our most wounded places with love, which is truly what is called for, […]
Every moment offers a choice to move from fear to love. Our habitual pattern is to react to fear with tightness in the body, a closed heart and make choices from a place of fear. Mindfulness and meditation can support us in letting go of fear and opening to love. Often these fear based choices […]
There is an opportunity for feeling at home when we are simply being in the present moment, the attention anchored on the breath or any other expression of present moment experience. Many of us search for peace outside of ourselves before realizing that it is accessible to us in any moment by practicing mindfulness and meditation. Within each of us […]
Practicing patience can help us to feel more at peace and ease in the present moment. One of our habitual patterns as human beings is that when we are in the midst of difficult circumstances, once we have insight or have made changes, we tend to look to the past with regret and disbelief that […]