Mindfulness Basics
"Awareness reflects how things are, how I'm acting in the world, how I'm living in the world. So not only do I have the capacity to...
Defensive Reactions to Healthy Evolution
Our fight-flight-freeze reaction pattern to stress also affects how we manage the evolution of our own consciousness ("spirituality" for...
Time-poverty, Ego & Timelessness
Most of us are all too familiar with constantly worrying about time. We complain if we have too much to do & not enough time, we grumble...
Meditation's Potential
Depth of engagement with meditation varies greatly among individuals. Often initially, there's only a brief, passing intellectual...
It's Universal, Not Personal!
“When we begin to respond to discomfort instead of reacting to it, an enormous change occurs. We begin to experience it not as just ‘our’...
How are you? Really!
“… to heal that which remains unloved and unloving. … No one can afford to put this work off any longer … If there is a single definition...
"What's Love got to do with it?"
Pretty much everything! Ram Dass on the role of love: “This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the...
Embracing Opposites
Practicing sitting & other forms of meditation, initially is mainly about learning to tolerate all the "obstructions" that arise, and...
Resilience, Identity, & Constant Change
“from the field of ecology … resilience is understood as the ability to absorb disturbance and still retain basic function and structure,...
Anxiety & Suffering
Heavy emotions, that can completely mess up our minds & lives, feel truly threatening - like huge rocks that can roll on top of us at any...
