One amazing tool we have to support our mindfulness practice is music. For me, there are certain songs that help center me in my heart. Music helps us bypass our minds and gain direct access to the tender and sometimes cloistered chambers of our own innermost feelings. And of course, music has been a constant […]
Meditation for Clear Self-Expression
In meditation we sit and let life unfold from moment to moment without any interaction. This can be considered not having a problem with anything, or letting things be, or being in the moment. Regardless of what you call it, the practice is one of allowing whatever shows up to show up. I often […]
How Meditation Changes Your Identity
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 […]
Having Tea With Mara
The way the story goes, when Siddhartha sat under the Bodhi tree and meditated on the night he was to become the Buddha, the god Mara slung arrows at him all night. Mara is essentially the god of Shadow, and his arrows were manifestations of all the unawakened thoughts and emotions of Siddhartha’s human experience. […]