Disrupt Your Story
There’s something liberating about feeling at home in both the story of your life and the direct experience of living it.
Speechless
Training your attention by listening closely to words as sounds can enrich your lifelong relationship to the language you rely on to navigate your life. It might even rekindle the wordless wonder that existed before you developed the ability to comprehend words.
Navigating Emotional Obstacles to Learning
Confusion is a natural emotional aspect of the learning cycle. It's easy to allow this emotional discomfort to convince us that we lack the capacity to understand concepts and master skills. Steering away from the temporary experience of vulnerability can become habitual.
The Importance of Being Clever
When it comes to developing any new skill, it is more important to be clever than to be disciplined.
The Difference Between Meditation and Rumination
What’s the difference between meditating on a problem and ruminating?
Strengthen Emotional Warmth
One of the things I’ve come to appreciate about mindfulness strategies is the way some core internal obstacles can be unraveled without necessarily needing to solve a related narrative puzzle.
Simple to Practice, Difficult to Remember
What makes it so difficult to establish a habit even when we’re convinced of its benefits?
Before and After
Try pausing right before
and right after
undertaking a new action
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Relentless Search for the Next Magical Something
“Everyone one of us has a fantasy of a ‘magical something’—a relationship, job, achievement, or possession—that will remove us from the treadmill that is real life.”
Something Much Larger than Just Trying to Be Happy
“Happiness is not a large enough word for the deeper satisfactions that human beings are searching for and will search for and have searched for through recorded time.”
David Whyte
Find and Create Rest in the Body
Our attention is habitually drawn to problems. However, we can train ourselves to notice rest and relaxation hiding within our regular routine. Setting aside some time to get more acquainted with what rest feels like in the body can support this exploration.
If We Could See Them As They Are
“What would people look like
if we could see them as they are…”
Ellen Bass
The Self is Really a Story
“The extended self, which is what we normally think of when we think about ourselves, is really a story. It’s the story of what’s happened to a body over time.”
Paul Broks
Nothing Has To Change
"When we start to pay attention in an intentional and nonjudgmental way, as we do when we cultivate mindfulness, and thus bring ourselves back into the present moment, we are tapping into very deep natural resources of strength, creativity, balance, and yes, wisdom—interior resources that we may never have realized we even possess."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Cultivating Mindfulness
“To be present, it helps to purposefully bring awareness to your moments – otherwise you may miss many of them.”
John Kabat-Zinn