The profound opportunity that meditation gives you is the chance to completely free you from any adherence you have to your current interpretive framework. That means letting go of all of the ways that you make sense of your experience so that you can feel the ecstasy of non-conceptual pure awareness. If this doesn’t necessarily […]
5 Steps (Plus 1 Meditation) to Forgiveness
Do you know how I know meditation is working in my life? For starters, I don’t shame myself or beat myself up about something I’ve done, or failed to do. I show myself the same kindness and compassion that I’d give to my best friend. For example, last week I spontaneously decided to drop in […]
The Way of Nourishment: The Art of Healing From The Inside Out
“The Awakening” Tending to my nourishment and pleasure isn’t something I was taught when I was younger. If anything, I was surrounded by those who would suffer for their nourishment and pleasure. I grew up in a society and culture that revered productivity and perseverance, driven to achieve the American dream at the expense of […]
Finding the Faith to Let Go
When the great mystic poet Rumi was asked, “How should one meditate?” his reply was simply, “Close your eyes and surrender.” Entering the unknown Meditation is a conscious practice of letting go of the mind. That means consciously entering into a space in which we authentically and literally know nothing. This is a very practical […]
With Meditation We Can Remain Steady Through Any Storm
When we meditate it is good to remain as still as we possibly can and here’s why. Our physical stillness in meditation is a metaphor for not moving inwardly. In deep meditation we discover an inner stillness that is not an act of being still as much as it is a discovery of an […]