Perspective
From being born, learning to behave & speak appropriately, socializing, going to school, getting hired, finding & keeping partners,...
Fundamental Nature?
All wisdom traditions suggest that humans have two fundamental natures: • the one with which we're all familiar; and • the other most of...
Step Back & Question
It's illuminating to periodically notice how much time we spend leaning forward into the future or backward into the past. What do we...
Fear & Longing for Depth
Danah Zohar completed her undergraduate work at MIT in Physics & Philosophy, and graduate studies at Harvard in Philosophy, Psychology &...
Fear vs Home
It's pretty intense to have a whole series of events in a single day press the same button! Even then, our powerful reactivity often...
Gentle Journey Inward
Mindfulness is "simple but not easy". The concepts are straight-forward and make sense if one is at peace with oneself and with life, but...
Prioritizing Nurturing
The longer I practice mindfulness meditation, the more clearly I see how thoroughly conditioned my mind-body is. When we look at any...
A Life Worth Living!
For too long we've been swamped by way too much 'stuff' that lacks depth, substance, meaning. Quantity has almost completely replaced...
"Holding Environment" for Ourselves
The "physician as the therapeutic agent" and "excellent bedside manner" may sound old-fashioneed, despite their pivotal importance to...
Thinking - Too Much? Too Little?
Most of us, with minimal conscious awareness that we're doing so, fully identify with our thoughts ("cognitive fusion") ie we assume that...
