That which I’m experiencing as I’m going through meditation teacher training is…profound As soon as I got back from traveling out west, my I began my coursework. Each week brings a new unit of material to study, along with the prescribed reading,...
Pain Happens. Suffering is Optional. Frankl and Hudson Give Us Insights On How To Deal “Pain is a part of life, but suffering is optional.” –Ancient Buddhist Proverb Not a single one of us humans will ever escape the ebbs and flows of life. Yes,...
If you have been getting my newsletters (subscribe below if you don’t and would like to get them), then you know that I introduced this topic in my last one. Talking about the disadvantages of meditation is not widely popular or known. But, after some...
Mohandas (or Mahatma) Gandhi. The Peaceful Resistor. The man who organized and took peaceful protests for people’s rights to a whole new level. The man who directly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. Learning to Make a Difference It’s no secret that...
Although I’ve been a meditator since 2003 or 2004, I really amped up the practice in autumn 2015 with 45-minute morning sessions. (Now that I’m doing the binaural beats experiment, I’m up to 60 minutes per day.) Without knowing all the benefits or...
Meditation for Those That Think They Can’t Let’s set the record straight: any time you sit in silence and bring awareness to your breath, that is meditation. This applies if your mind is blank or full, happy, sad and everything between. And it...
What It’s Like to Meditate for 45 Minutes Before I explain the really neat things about what it’s like to meditate for 45 minutes, I think it would be good to explain how I got there in the first place. For a long time, I would meditate for 15-20 minutes...
How I Discovered Meditation Once upon a time, I was a kid. A kid who loved to read. And, for various reasons, I’ve always been one of those “old souls” who everyone said was “mature beyond her years.” (This is not a prerequisite, by the...