Have you ever paid attention to the way you think? Have you ever noticed that your thinking is often repetitive or unoriginal? One of the biggest things meditation can help you with is becoming aware of your habits of thought. Through regular and consistent practice, we slowly but surely lift up and out of the […]
Your Breath Is a Powerful Ally
One of the most common meditation instructions is to “focus on your breath.” Why? One way of breaking down meditation is into meditation with seed and meditation without seed. Let’s look at how the breath can play into both of these approaches. Meditation With Seed In this form of meditation, we give ourselves something to […]
OM072: What’s Your Morning Routine?
How do you start your day? Do you take time to cultivate the conditions for success and thriving, whatever that looks like for you? It’s an important question and one that I think about a lot. I am a huge fan of morning routines. And the thing is, if you’re interested in change. If you’re […]
How to Ease Conflict with your Loved Ones: A Meditator’s Guide
I have a family member I dearly love who is, well, very difficult to talk to. When we talk, it’s stilted. Tense. Heartbreaking. Everything I have tried has made it worse. I strategize and plan. I try to be closer or I try to put distance between us. I stick to safe topics or dive […]
You Are Already Free
For thousands of years the crown jewel of the spiritual quest has been Enlightenment or Spiritual Freedom. Any truly liberated soul will tell you that you are already awake. The big cosmic joke that is revealed to us at the end of years of tireless seeking is that what we find is something that was […]