It is so interesting to think about “falling off the wagon” when it comes to meditation. I did meditate yesterday, but I didn’t do the “official” meditation of this challenge. Listened to Day 6 and Day 7 this morning and Read More
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TRUST
The word I landed on in today’s meditation is trust. Having just moved across the country, I am fluctuating between excitement and some primal fear/survival coming to the surface. Everything is okay. Truly. But being so far out of my Read More
Day 1 – Concentration Amidst Chaos
The first time I heard Sharon use the metaphor of waving to a friend, with “you don’t have to push aside everyone else,” I laughed out loud. It opened up a whole new way of coming back to the breath, Read More
I’ll Make a Mental Note of That
I really caught myself…the mental note “thinking” came with judgement the first time (“thinking ALWAYS thinking}), that sort of exasperated tone that lets me know I’m too hard on myself for my busy mind: the endless to do list, the Read More
Getting Grounded: A Year of Walking Meditation
Walking is one of those things that has always been a huge part of my life but went unexamined & under appreciated. It wasn’t until I began to bring moments of mindfulness into the simple act of a regular basis Read More
Concentrating, One, Two, Three, Breathe: Beginning Again
Fits & Starts to beginning the writing portion of my participation in the meditation challenge. Several attempts were begun, embraced, cherished & then sadly left to their own devices as fragmented drafts on the blog and on my desktop as Read More
Counting the Breath – Some Stuff is Weird
The technique shared with us in today’s meditation was a bit different than what I was expecting. When I read the title “Counting the Breath,” I thought the count would be connected to the length of the inhalation and the Read More
Beginning Again – Already
It’s only Day 3 and I’ve already skipped a day of blogging, so today I begin again! So far I’ve enjoyed the format of Sharon’s meditations in that they are brief and easily digestible. Knowing that I don’t have to Read More
Our Train Has Left the Station
It’s not often that I look forward to the beginning of February. Historically it is a dismal block on my calendar, dotted with the anniversaries of a few not-so-pleasant events, sort of hanging in this purgatory between the comforting stillness Read More
All Dharma as Dreams
I am not new to meditation, but I am new to blogging. I come to it with ambivalence; it has a very narcissistic feel to it for me. On one hand it is nice to keep a record of your thoughts Read More
