When I was a little girl, I remember believing that anything was possible. The world was a place of magic and possibility where the only limit was my imagination. Like all of us, my dreams and perceptions of who I could be evolved along with me. From full-time princess to interdimensional astronaut, to marine biologist, and […]
Meditation and Confidence: From Inner Noise To Inner Knowing
Self-confidence is indicated by how strongly we believe in ourselves and in our ability to complete a task or speak up what we’re thinking and feeling. It is an assuredness in ourselves for who we are. A confident person means what they say, and says what they mean. A confident person is not someone […]
Meditation as a Journey to the Unknowable
Meditation is a journey into the unknowable. The practice of sitting and being perfectly free, unattached and nonreactive allows all of the concepts of our mind to fall away. You see, we live in a largely conceptual reality. What is Conceptual Reality? The vast majority of what we experience are concepts – ideas that take […]
Letting Go In Meditation Isn’t As easy As It Sounds
The profound opportunity of meditation is to completely let go of any adherence to your current interpretive framework. All of the experience we have, every sensation that runs through us passes through an elaborate and largely unconscious interpretive mechanism. Our experience doesn’t just show up. It shows up as something. It shows up predefined, but of […]
Self-Regulation for the Modern Day Mystic
In our modern era, it appears that stress and overwhelm have become a normalized baseline for most people. When we were younger, the majority of us probably received a particular roadmap for success. If you worked really hard, got into a good college, and found a good job that paid you well with benefits, you […]