I attended a day-long retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center last Saturday with my daughter. The subject of the retreat was Self-Compassion and Emotional Resilience. In the end, I realized that having self-compassion is embracing imperfection in myself and in others. Embrace Imperfection My practice is teaching me to embrace imperfection: to have compassion for […]
Healing verses Cure
October 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dear Jerome, You might hear banter about how you can heal yourself. But what if you’re still sick? Does that mean you’re not doing a good job of self-healing? Let me teach you something critical. There’s a difference between healing and curing. To heal means to restore wholeness. To cure means to eliminate disease. Here’s […]
Quieting the Mind
October 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
QUIETING THE MIND BY DEGREES “In short, “getting it together” requires slowing the mind. Quieting the mind means less thinking, calculating, judging, worrying, fearing, hoping, trying, regretting, controlling, jittering or distracting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose […]
Challenges are Clues
October 2, 2015 by
Challenges are clues that there is some suffering in our lives that we are not addressing properly. It may relate to our health, or wealth, or our general well-being. The way around them is to look deeply into our hearts and recognize the challenges for what they are. This way, we can apply our mindfulness […]
Take the Cancer Quiz
October 1, 2015 by
Take the Cancer Quiz to Find Out How Not to Get this Dreaded Disease As you probably know, I am a cancer survivor for almost nineteen years. My son is a cancer survivor for 39 years. You may also know that we used the Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing to thrive and succeed in […]
5 Rules of Mind-Body Healing
September 30, 2015 by
The 5 Rules of Mind-Body Healing: How To Regain & Maintain Perfect Health is title an article I just read on Soulvana blog. The article begins with this statement: Science has suggested that it’s possible to accelerate physical, emotional and spiritual healing with the sheer power of your mind. In this lesson, learn the 5 […]
A Quiet Life Stimulates the Creative Mind
September 29, 2015 by Leave a Comment
This year is the 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity by Albert Einstein. He was known to be a solitary person who spent most of his time alone. He is know to have said, “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” In my opinion, a quiet life does […]
Mindfulness in Daily Life
September 29, 2015 by
These words of wisdom for Zen Master Eihei Dogen teach us about mindfulness in daily life. This is actually quite a universal teaching these days by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Phillip Moffitt, and many others. The idea is to take your mindfulness into your life in order to enrich your everyday experience. […]
Life is Love
September 28, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Life is love. Not some of life, some moments of life, some times when things are going well. All of life is love, unconditional love. Spend each day in love. Give the one person whose worth you know intimately—you—the life that person deserves. – Cheri Huber
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