I was listening to a couple of talks by Gil Fronsdal this week. He’s a teacher and practitioner of insight meditation, also called Vipassana. His talks are extremely insightful and I thought I’d share some of my own thoughts after listening to a ...
Yoga Poses: Downward Facing Dog
During my eight week mindfulness course I learned some basic yoga poses and I have recently started to incorporate yoga into my daily life. I'll do some poses in the morning after I finish my meditation and I have begun taking yoga classes every week.
Productivity, Un-Productivity and Other Random Thoughts
Uhhh, yeah, so it's been awhile since I posted. Even sitting down at my computer and starting to write seems a bit strange to me. Now, I realize that taking a good two-plus month break from posting is not exactly the ideal strategy for creating ...
You Have Only This Moment To Live
I want to share a story I read in the MBSR class that I just recently finished. It captures the sentiments of a woman close to the end of her life and her thoughts on what she would do differently if she had to ...
A Moment for Appreciation
We tend to worry a lot. Many of us say we don't...but we really all do, to an extent. Much of this is driven by the overactive mind. Maybe it's wanting a better job. Maybe it's wanting to be someplace else. Maybe it's ...
Welcome Reach Our Dreams Readers
Hello! Today I did a guest post about learning to slow down on the blog, Reach Our Dreams. Reach Our Dreams is a wonderful blog that focuses on personal development. Jen Smith, the lovely woman who runs the blog, always has insightful posts that I enjoy reading. Make sure to check out ...
The Journey Within
Today is a rather short blog post. I attended a day long meditation retreat this weekend, which was a wonderful experience. I have been practicing now every day for roughly the last three months, however, the day long retreat gave me the wonderful....and challenging experience ...
Gaining Glimpses of Wholeness
I want to provide you with a puzzle to solve. It is called the nine-dot puzzle. Here's how it works: You will see an arrangement of nine dots below. To solve the puzzle you must connect all nine dots by making four straight lines. You cannot lift your pencil off the paper ...
Overcoming Our Attachment To Thoughts
A week ago or so, I heard a popular Zen story. Actually, the origin of the story is a bit unclear so I can't positively say if the background is Zen. At any rate, here's how the story goes: Two monks are on a ...
Questioning What We’re Supposed to Feel
Supposed. Kind of a funny word when you look at it, huh? Looking up the definition in the dictionary, you will find synonyms, such as: pretended, believed, alleged, expected and imagined. At times it feels as if we live in a world full of ...