Archives for April 2016

Looking for Love and Approval in All the Wrong Places? – Purpose Fairy

You really don`t need to add anything to your life, or get any more love and approval from those around you, in order for you to feel this way. Source: Looking for Love and Approval in All the Wrong Places? – Purpose Fairy

A New Meditation for Sleep

Here is a new meditation for sleep that I have been using lately. In concept, it is pretty simple. You imagine a set of objects in twenty layers, each layer consisting of one object less than the one below it with the top layer having twenty objects, as illustrated below. The objects can be anything […]

Changing the Object

If you are a meditator, it is important to learn about changing the object of meditation from the story you are stuck in back to you body and feelings. Mark Epstein writes about the Tibetan slogan of “Stopping the wind,” i. e., the stuck story blowing through your mind. Using meditation or therapy to try […]

Letting Go of Self Sabotage: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy

People sabotage themselves, their relationships and their lives, thinking that they don’t deserve the many beautiful things that life sends their way. Source: Letting Go of Self Sabotage: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy

9 Ways to Let Go of Your Past and Start Over – Purpose Fairy

When life knocks you down, it’s virtually impossible to start over. Instead, we want to nurse our wounds and cry in our misery. We want to quit our jobs Source: 9 Ways to Let Go of Your Past and Start Over – Purpose Fairy

The Space Between Stories

yada “So please, if you are in the sacred space between stories, allow yourself to be there. It is frightening to lose the old structures of security, but you will find that even as you might lose things that were unthinkable to lose, you will be okay. There is a kind of grace that protects […]

15 Healthy Beliefs to Be Stubborn About – Purpose Fairy

We have the ability to create beliefs that actually support and benefit us.Here are a few positive beliefs that you can choose from to be stubborn about: Source: 15 Healthy Beliefs to Be Stubborn About – Purpose Fairy

The Divine Now

Living life in the divine now, the present moment is taught by all spiritual teachers from all traditions. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh says, “My path is the path of stopping, the path of enjoying the present moment. It is a path where every step brings me back to my true home. It is a […]

Managing Stress

Managing stress is a difficult problem for most people. They either succumb to it and panic (like I did on my Ph. D. orals at the University of Chicago) or they use it as a trigger to harness their full capacity to conquer their situation (like I did when I first got cancer in 1997). […]

True Love Is Made Of Understanding

My teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, is constantly reinforcing the experience that true love is make of understanding. This teaching is simple and profound. If we don’t understand our beloved, how can there be true love? We must develop the willingness and capacity to understand the person we love. True love requires us to […]