Days like today remind me how grateful I am for Metta and how it helps me frame and hold my experiences. Today was a lot of physical pain and discomfort for me, so I metta-ed and then rested, slept and Read More
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If Once You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again
This is my mantra most of the time when I meditate. Thankfully, through Sharon’s teaching, I learned early on that losing my ‘concentration’ is an opportunity to begin again – and that’s where the real success comes. It’s that returning Read More
Equanimity’s Role in Lovingkindness
Equanimity’s role in lovingkindness “It’s not easy to be very present with suffering and not fall into despair–to overcome the feeling of our own powerlessness or helplessness at fixing things.” That’s from Real Happiness at Work, the chapter called Resilience Read More
Walking Meditation: Winds of Change
The past week has been bitterly cold but despite winter’s bone chilling embrace I am deeply enjoying layering my daily practice with the walking meditation Sharon suggests as apart of the second week of the online Real Happiness Challenge. As Read More
Feeding the Inner Troll: Writing Bridges
The mantra I try to instill in my clients & online loved ones is the classic: Don’t Feed the Trolls but have found the suggestion to be quite useful when sitting trying to meditate. Plays on Sharon’s advice to relate Read More
Local & Global
Good Morning Sitters! Today I continued working on Concentration. I just read Alexandra’s post for the IDProject from Thailand. And I loved her mention of the one thing at a time reminder. That is helpful. Day 3 I decided to concentrate Read More
Concentration: Visualizing the Mechanics
Ever since I was a kid big bright, wandering thoughts have been my forte. I’ve prided myself on my well-developed daydreaming ability. Being able to de focalize and loosen my mind to get the juices flowing has allowed me to Read More
The Space Between Us Dissolves Just A Little More Every Time I Sit in Meditation or, Thank You Robert.
I wondered what I could write about during the first week of the 28-day blogging experience and how to express my appreciation of the people, places, and things I have been exposed to because of my Vipassana practice. What could Read More
Morning Has Broken!
Waking this morning to the sound of birds, I had an immediate awareness that the last day of the 28- day meditation challenge had passed. It’s not like the last few days have alluded my awareness.
