This is my fifth year of keeping a formal journal. Along with meditation and marathon running, daily journaling is one of my core spiritual practices. My day-to-day experience can often feel like a roller coaster of soaring heights and crashing lows. But after recently reading through four years of entries, it looked more like a steady barge voyaging […]
Does Meditation Still Matter?
A few years ago, I adopted a small library of spiritual books from a friend of mine. When I asked him why he was getting rid of all these amazing tomes he told me that he didn’t feel that meditation and spiritual practice was relevant given the state of the world any longer. His attitude […]
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 […]
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 […]