As people, we often do things without thinking. Especially harmful things, like smoking, overeating, or…
Tag: mindfulness
Today I want to share an article I wrote for another blog a few weeks…
During the last two years, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with cold showers. I love…
People tend to think of meditation and exercise as contrasting experiences. When you meditate, you…
Recall a few of the most beautiful experiences of your life. Maybe your wedding day…
Even experienced meditators can’t always articulate how meditation works. I used to fall in that…
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing.
Hack your past with forgiveness. Hack your present with mindfulness. Hack your future with I am enough.
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists
It seems like every month a new challenge makes its waves across the internet. Some…
Suppose you are in the desert, and you only have one glass of muddy water. You have to transform the muddy water into clear water to drink, you cannot just throw it away. So you let it settle for a while, and clear water will appear. In the same way, we have to convert anger into some kind of energy that is more constructive, because anger is you. Without anger you have nothing left. That is the work of meditation.
Visualization is the Swiss-army knife of the self-help industry. Performers use it to hone their…
Elsewhere on the site I have cited scientific evidence demonstrating the health benefits of meditation.…
The 21st century has witnessed a surge in mindfulness meditation in the US and Europe.…
