It’s apt that my most challenging meditation to date was today’s meditation. A meditation on working with challenges. I felt so much resistance rising. Impatience, rising like a tide of concrete. So many things I should be doing right now, Read More
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Day 18: Meditation On Working With Thoughts
TaraB February 18, 2020
“We can remind ourselves that these [negative thought patterns] are just visiting, they’re not essentially who we are.” For me, that is the crux of this meditation. Thoughts may become things but we are not essentially our negative thought patterns. Read More
Day 17: Meditation On Difficult Emotions
TaraB February 17, 2020
“We can’t avoid pain but we can transform our response to it.” As a single woman on the cusp of 50, the Valentine’s Day/Family Day/My Ex’s Birthday triumvirate long weekend is a kind of pain I cannot avoid. I know Read More
Day 16: Finding the Positives
TaraB February 16, 2020
I was twelve or thirteen the first time depression hit me. I’d been this sunny child, who could get ridiculously excited over a dandelion puff, and then one day I woke up and it was like there was this grey Read More
Day 15: Mental Noting Meditation
TaraB February 15, 2020
Something very unexpected happened for me during this meditation. I had a massive sneezing fit. (I don’t have a head cold.). Eventually I had to pause the meditation and go get a Kleenex and blow my nose. Aside from Read More
Day 5: How Do I Speak to Myself
TaraB February 5, 2020
I love this meditation. I bet if you polled my friends they would tell you that I am basically a kind person. Yet frequently, I am unkind to myself. I nag myself constantly, I perceive myself as lazy, a professional Read More
Day 4: In, 1, In, 2
TaraB February 4, 2020
I find this variation super helpful. Counting gives my monkey mind something to do (math is hard) and allows me to focus on the breath and really, truly, be in the moment. Only working for a few hours this afternoon Read More
Day 3: Mental Noting or Using A Word Meditation
TaraB February 3, 2020
Mental noting is challenging for me. As soon as I let one word in, all the other words – and I do mean ALL the other words – clamour to be allowed in as well. However – I persevered. Rising, Read More
Day 2 – Hearing Meditation
TaraB February 2, 2020
“We don’t meditate to get better at meditating, we meditate to get better at life.” I love that this quote is attached to the “Hearing Meditation.” I absolutely cannot abide white noise. I blame this aversion on the fact that I Read More
Day 1: Oh, there’s the breath!
TaraB February 1, 2020
So I am late joining the party – I knew I would miss Saturday – flying back from Costa Rica – then Sunday I had to go to work and I still had a house guest – then Monday I Read More
