I have written in previous blogs about "Holding On" and "Letting Go" - of old stories we tell ourselves - and of various forms of change, and creating new...Read more
Transformational Change
Post date: Jul 30 2016 - 11:11am
What Does it Mean to Be Present?
Post date: Jun 25 2016 - 7:35am
We hear more and more about the importance of "being present... in the here and now".
What does that mean?
Like many things, we can quickly grasp a superficial understanding of the concept, and think that we have "gotten it."
We can learn or develop some...Read more
Illness, Injury, and the Invitation to being Present
Post date: Jun 5 2016 - 11:45am
A few years ago, I was looking forward to taking some time off from work and getting some things done around the house. Being self-employed, I have the freedom to take time off when I want to - and the pressures that cause me to not take as much time off as I'd like, or as I need.
...Read more
Adrenal Fatigue: the Challenge to be Present
Post date: May 22 2016 - 10:01am
I have had a few bouts of adrenal fatigue, now. The worst was the first one and luckily, subsequent ones have not been as severe as that. But they are nonetheless debilitating.
If you don't know what adrenal fatigue is, it is worth reading up on. Many people can be diagnosed with...Read more
Holding on
Post date: May 8 2016 - 10:46am
We hold on to the way things were.
We hold on to the way things should be.
We hold on to the things that were said.
We hold on to the things that were done.
We hold on to the things that were promised.
We hold on to the way we...Read more
Letting Go
Post date: May 1 2016 - 11:38am
How many times have you read, or heard, or been told, that you need to "let go"? To let go of what someone said, to let go of something that happened, to let go of what you wish had happened, but didn't.
It isn't hard to understand that when you're holding on to past hurts, regrets...Read more
Happiness
Post date: Apr 14 2016 - 4:01pm
What does the word "happy" mean to you?
For a long time, I thought that my meaning for the word was perhaps different than other people's. But lately, I realized that I actually use the word in two different ways, with two different meanings.
One is, "I feel...Read more
Wanting to Be Heard
Post date: Mar 29 2016 - 9:43pm
It is amazing how often that, in wanting to be heard, we react to others in ways that make it difficult for those people to hear us.
Sometimes, we do this by causing them to feel not heard.
Wanting to be heard is, of course, a normal desire. Whether...Read more
Cravings, Desire, Fears, and Longing
Post date: Mar 13 2016 - 11:35am
Cravings, desires, fears, and longing are familiar feelings, experienced by most people, some of the time. In practicing mindfulness, we try to be aware of such thoughts and feelings that come up, and to simply be with them, without getting pulled into them.
Whether you...Read more
The Stories We Tell
Post date: Feb 27 2016 - 5:01pm
As human beings, we are constantly in the process of making stories. We construct our ideas about ourselves and our ideas about reality through the stories we create. Some of these stories we are conscious of: stories we tell to other people about ourselves, about our lives,...Read more