Everywhere I look my daily life offers opportunities to become more mindful, present, aware, and responsive. Everyday “mundane” tasks unfold in front of me, and I see the opportunity to serve them vs. how reactive and ultimately unmindful I have approached these interactions with life. One of those daily interactions, my attention was drawn to recently is email. A couple of weeks ago, I realized …
Have you ever tried to go to your talky mind for answers and ended up feeling frustrated and confused, unable to find answers? Have you ever realized how mean you are to yourself? Have you ever felt so full of love you thought your heart would explode? Have you ever felt so vulnerable you thought your heart would implode?
Something to do. My mind pulls for something to do. Is it pulling to get away? I don’t know, but it has an early morning sense of restlessness. My mind jumps around trying to latch onto something. When the mind is searching, I can feel the physical tension; the cricky neck, and the tight right side. When I notice it and become aware, it seems …
The Third Patriarch of Zen by Seng-T’san The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
According to the HeartMath Institute, “from our current understanding of the elaborate feedback networks between the brain, heart and mental and emotional systems, it becomes clear that the age-old struggle between intellect and emotion will not be resolved by the mind gaining dominance over the emotions, but rather by increasing the harmonious balance between the mental and emotional systems – a synthesis that provides greater …
The mind is a place the soul goes to hide from the heart. -Michael Singer ahhhh so it is. So it is.
Always looking for a way to make things better. What if everything, I mean everything was the best it could possibly be in each moment, but our minds travel away and miss it? Each time it doesn’t see it because it is somewhere else. Jumping in to stop what we don’t prefer is like jumping into a small pond to stop a ripple. What if …
Information has an amazing ability to transform our choices and illuminate our own knowingness. At the same time, information can keep us suspended in this middle space of never being enough. We see a headline promoting something, and we think, I want that because I don’t feel like I have it in my life. We place our hope in learning about something to get away …
We realize that there is no alternative to the experience that we have. Our experience is the only experience there is. This is the ultimate teacher. -Pema Chodron (photo by Jake Ingle)
The sense of problems niggles at me. I can’t help but question what all this thinking, all this judgment, all this monotony, this constant striving to get somewhere at some point is – it is like a treadmill. I have watched repetitive habit energies circling my body, brain, and emotions. Survival tactics, looking into the deep dark chasm of anger and fear. My emotions and thinking …
