Author Archive | JeanJoy

Day 28 – The End – 02/28/2020 6:00 am.  This time has seemed to pass so quickly.  Thank you, Sharon, for the invitation to practice together.  It’s odd to have felt community by just knowing others are participating each day. Read More

Working with Common Emotions Day 19 Great Q & A!  This is a fascinating practice.  Compassion for one’s self can often  be challenging.  I grew up with a verbal label “you’re selfish” if it seemed to my mother/father I was Read More

Walking Meditation Quiet Eyes – Such a sweet practice.  On this chilly, very wet morning in the wee hours my walking meditation happened indoors.  It was refreshing to notice for only a brief moment the “things that need to be Read More

Body Scan – Day 10This scan was a treat and I did fall asleep. In the Thich Nhat Hahn practices centers we participate in “Deep Relaxation” meditation. I anticipated this may be a similar exercise. It was, and it was Read More

Awareness of the Body – Walking Meditation.  This is such a sweet early morning exercise (for me today indoors.) The practice brings back fond memories of outdoors walking meditation with teacher Thich Nhat Hahn and a sea of people; monks, Read More

Concentration – Breath Practice – “Our thoughts are not our breath.” Noticing and acknowledging the  truth of this simple statement is powerful. This is such an easy practice to take off of the cushion and into the world. I look Read More

Magic Moments is such a powerful concept in framing the ways we talk to ourselves. I recall when my first child proudly proclaimed, “I am very good at this, amn’t I?”   His words and confidence in himself delighted me. Read More

Such an interesting practice! In the late 70s I began a meditation practice after reading a book. TM.  I practiced alone and continued to do so for many years. In the early 90s my practice began to include Centering Prayer, Read More

So much of the time I don’t notice my breath at all. The breath practice “noting” reminds me that my breath is always with me.  When I notice the “in, out” “rising, falling” I have the sensation of “Hello Old Read More