Until last month, I’ve been wearing eyeglasses since I was 7 years old. I liked them at first because they made me look like Brainy Smurf, who was clearly smart. But as I grew older, so did my nearsightedness. By my awkward teenage years, my glasses became coke bottle telescopes. While contact lenses helped with my […]
Meditation is a Journey
Recently a client asked me to introduce him to meditation. After I explained the basic ins-and-outs of it, he asked, “So it provides relief? That’s why people do it?” I chuckled at this question, as it was trying to apply a goal-oriented mindset to something that inherently is a process. A Completely Different Approach In […]
How to Connect your Practice and your Life–with Walking
Walking is a fundamental theme in my life. Each step beats like a metronome, both setting my pace and responding to the pace of my life. Step. Step. Breath. Breath. My love of walking started when I was 22. I traveled to Nepal and walked the Annipurna Circuit, a trek which took about 3 weeks. […]
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 […]
Stop Reacting To Everything. Take A Breath And…
Our culture has conditioned us to respond immediately to whatever shows up. We celebrate immediate feedback, consider a quick reply to an email or text to be a trait of a responsible person, and scorn those who take too long for our liking. We have built a culture where faster is always better. This means […]