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  • 9 Tips For Child Meditation And Quiet Time

    9 Tips For Child Meditation And Quiet Time

    Do you remember lying in the grass as a child, watching the clouds move by and not having a care in the world? Only as adults, we often find ourselves longing back to those times where we could really be in the moment, not thinking about anything else but being in the here and now.…

  • 7 Steps To Shake Off Work Stress

    7 Steps To Shake Off Work Stress

    Do you suffer from work stress? Take these steps to make today and the rest of the week even better. Work stress can be a drag. Especially when it continues day-in, day-out, right? We’re not alone in thinking so either. In a recent Gallup poll, 80% of those polled reported some form of workplace stress.…

  • How To Relax Into The Rightness, Right Now

    How To Relax Into The Rightness, Right Now

    Let your guard down today, relax your defenses. Don’t fret, the peace abounds. After having a dull headache for a few days this past week, I had to admit that I was tense. I felt tightness in my shoulders and neck, and even my jaw one day. This, despite my daily meditation practice. Why the…

  • Take These 3 Steps To Freedom

    Take These 3 Steps To Freedom

    Freedom is a state of mind – where’s your head at? Not that long ago, my life was like a prison. Toxic relationships, road rage, no time for myself, plus the stress of working as a 911 operator all added up to “no fun!”. Tension headaches, acid indigestion, a short temper, and a generally bad…

  • Working Too Hard? Try Something Else

    Working Too Hard? Try Something Else

    Greetings, dear friend! Today, see if you can walk the middle way. In the midst of our busy lives, we have a tendency to overwork, play too little, and, as a result, get very serious about things! I’m sure you know the feeling. It’s been one of those weeks that feels like it might never…

  • If There’s Fear, Roll With It

    If There’s Fear, Roll With It

    Today is a great day to check-in with your fear and see it for what it is. Tell-tale anxieties? Limiting beliefs? They’re no match for present moment awareness. You’ve decided to make a change, pursue a new endeavor, reinvent an aspect of your life. The vision for this new way of being inspires you. Maybe…

  • How Can Nature Help You?

    How Can Nature Help You?

    Have you gotten your dose of nature this week? The benefits of being outdoors are so many, but us city-dwellers tend to spend most of our time in the office, in the car, at home, rarely venturing off the beaten path and into the woods. In fact, a 2009 report from the Environmental Protection Agency…

  • Relax, And Let The Truth Arrive

    Relax, And Let The Truth Arrive

    Over the past blog posts, we’ve been looking at our tendency to grasp at pleasurable thoughts and push away the painful. If we are attached to either pleasure or pain, we set ourselves up for inevitable disappointment. When the pleasure passes, discontentment arises (“Aw! I wanted more of that!”). Wallowing in pain, discontentment is just…

  • The Feelings That Colors Everything

    The Feelings That Colors Everything

    How do you feel today? Where did this feeling come from? Today we’ll continue our exploration of the second foundation of mindfulness, the contemplation of feeling as feeling. We talked about how when we initially perceive an experience, there is an instantaneous feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. This feeling arises pre-thought. Without even…

  • What Does Feeling Have To Do With It?

    What Does Feeling Have To Do With It?

    Two days ago I mentioned how nice it was to have some downtime while on vacation, and how we all need to take this time for ourselves. The last week of my vacation was spent on a 7-day meditation retreat at Spirit Rock. Talk about contrast! The retreat was organized around the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.…