Today is World Mental Health Day. A day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy to demonstrate that there is no health without mental health. Dis-ease in the body comes in many forms. When you think about the power of the brain in the functioning of our daily lives, honestly, we can’t live without […]
Did you know that visualization is one of the most powerful exercises you can do? There is a book you may be familiar with called, The Secret, and the premise is that what you think about, you bring about or you manifest into your consciousness. “The law of attraction is forming your entire life experience […]
Monkey mind or mind monkey, from Chinese xinyuan and Sino-Japanese shin’en 心猿 [lit. “heart-/mind–monkey“], is a Buddhist term meaning “unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable”. The yoga practices of pranayama and asana and meditation are methods that we can use to train the mind to focus on the present. This is desirable […]
As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “The only constant is change.” Autumn reminds us that our bodies, minds, and surroundings are always developing. It focuses on the impermanence of life, emphasizing how important it is to embrace the present. When we do, we can savor what we have before it is gone. Fall is […]
You know the song… “rainy days and Monday’s always get me down.” Well I can’t really say that rainy days or Monday’s get me down but I can tell you that there are things that really do get me down. I think all of us share that commonality. They may not be the same issues […]
Do you like to read? I do! I love to hold a book in my hands, curl down the pages, write in the margins, highlight and underline and rewrite things that strike a cord with me. Back in December of 2019, I chose my “word for the year” which came out of weeks of quiet […]
On Saturday I will turn 57. I don’t feel 57…whatever that is actually supposed to feel like. When I put my life on a timeline and see that I am closer to the end of being in this body than the beginning makes me, not only appreciate each day I get the privilege of waking […]
Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.” Is this the life you want? I know I do. Jesus’ life is a blueprint of how we are asked to live. John O’Donohue wrote, “Jesus never avocated a life that confined itself with safe, complacent walls.” Jesus called people […]
Successful people all over the world use visualization to spawn dreams into reality realms. Visualization is just like dreaming but with an intention or purpose. It’s mind over matter. It’s constructing life from a space inside our brains. Visualization is not about winning as much as it is about self-improvement. With visualization, you can create […]
Impermanence. That which is not permanent. How quickly in your mind can you make a list of things that are impermanent? How long would that list be? Answers: quickly and long. That is life. I am always surprised but never really shocked at how my morning readings and meditations flow together. Today for example, my […]
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