Reason #381 why I meditate
Read morePractice Notes : Basic can be Beautiful
Ordinary gets a bad rap. Basic can be a beautiful thing.
Read morePractice Notes : Feeding Fear
Fear Eats the Soul.
Read morePractice Notes: A Simple Truth
Precious. Rarified. Temporary.
Read moreHow to Establish A Home Meditation Practice - That Isn't A Total Drag.
Here are the 3 [and a half] Forms of Consistency: traditional guidance points for how to make our home practice both joyful and 'sticky'.
Read moreThe Path of Self Worth :: Retreat @ OMEGA
The danger of investing our sense of "self-worth" in achievements, fulfilled expectations, and the opinions of others is that they are volatile markets. Conditional. Always changing…
Read more✨ Everything Requires Maintenance ✨
AKA : An antidote for overwhelm
✨ A Practice to Reveal Your Inherent Self Worth ✨
It's not surprising in our modern world that our relationship to self-worth is tenuous -- often pinned to our credentials. Worth is something that we’ve been taught to hustle, prove, and purchase our way closer to. Here’s a different take.
Read more✨ Mindfulness? This Might Be the Missing Ingredient ...✨
Being ‘mindful’ may make you more generous with loved ones, patient with strangers, and invested in the well-being of our society. Or... not.
Because, to be clear, that isn’t a guarantee.
✨ Need a Radical Reset in the New Year? ✨ Meditation Retreat + Nicaragua.
Image via Apoyo Lodge
I’ve heard it said that it’s hard to heal in the same environment where we get sick and that the most effective way to dislodge anything that feels stuck, stiff, or stagnant is to physically move to a different location.
Read more✨ What's your question? Please keep asking. ✨
Tucumcari, New Mexico
Questions open things.
Which is a useful thing to remember when our options appear to be closed.
✨ The Oracle + The Vortex : Resources Worth Reclaiming ✨
What I love about the internet: everything belongs here and there's a sense of gazing back at our own minds. Both our wisdom qualities and our neurotic qualities are reflected here. Heightened, Even.
Read more✨ The Benefits of Visualization Meditation ✨ (MindBodyGreen Article)
Artwork : The incomparable Laura Berger
As both meditation and visualization gain traction in our repertoire of holistic practices, it can be easy to bundle them together as being one and the same.
Read more✨ Practice Notes :: Assigning Meaning ✨
Artist :: Unknown
When we understand that our relationship to our circumstances -- not the circumstances themselves -- is the pivotal piece in the equation, we can crawl out from under the pillow-fort of “no bad vibes” and get curious about our relationship to ‘unpleasant’ instead.
Read more✨ I'm Writing a Book! + I would love your help. ✨
Photo : Unknown
It's often said that with any undertaking, one should be careful to inspect the lineage that you're learning from.
Read more✨ Cool. Gentle. Embodied. POWER. :: Zen No Chikara ✨
Zen no chikara, on the other hand, implies a power that is cool and relaxed. Gentle, even.
A power that relies more on being than on doing, and is a form of power with rather than power over.
✨ Having a rough go of it? Dukkha, Baby. (Handle With Care.) ✨
I personally like to think of it as the Truth of 'Let’s drop the positivity worship for a minute and just all admit that we have a hard time sometimes'.
Read more✨ My Arch-Nemesis : Internet Buddha + Meditation Video ✨
Original artwork by Neda Hajmomeni
According to UrbanDictionary, there is a major distinction between an arch-nemesis and your basic run-of-the-mill enemy.
Read more✨ Ordinary is the New Black ✨
Rei Kawakubo :: The Met Exhibit / Photo - HYPERBEAST
“I am just working every day, day to day, with what I believe.
It’s a very ordinary way of dealing with your life — just dealing with your work.” -- Rei Kawakubo
✨ [ invite] TRUST YOUR GUT SUMMIT. Free. Online. Begins May 22. ✨
Hi there,
Three fun facts that I know about the “gut”:
• The acid in your stomach is strong enough to burn your skin. (woah.)
• Up to 90% of your serotonin (ie: the chemical responsible for feelings of wellbeing and happiness) is produced — not in your brain — but in your belly.
• Your “Gut” is a wonderful analogy for all things ineffable that we feel but cannot measure. Intuition. Instinct. Sixth Sense. Butterflies.
(Okay, that one is an opinion, not a fact.)
I also know that I’m super excited to invite you to the Trust Your Gut Summit produced and hosted by the delightful and insightful Melissa Patruno, CHHC and featuring 21 presenters (including yours truly) on “GUT” topics ranging from the medical to the metaphysical and all things in between.
Melissa knows a thing or two about taking a multi-dimensional approach to healing:
In her early 20s, she was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, ulcerative colitis, anxiety, and depression. Doctors told her she had to be on medication for the rest of her life, but her gut told her there had to be a different way.
She knew, deep down, that there was a different approach to her diagnoses, and after tons of research and practice, effectively healed herself.
Which, in my eyes, makes her the perfect person to be hosing this summit — because she knows exactly what she’s talking about, not only as a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, but also through her own direct experience.
In this summit you can expect topics such as :
• How to live an authentic life by learning to trust your gut.
• Reasons why you can't lose weight and are always short on energy--- and what to do about it.
• Which foods create which symptoms -- from anxiety and skin conditions to weight gain and chronic illness --- and which foods nurture your wellbeing.
• Tools for MORE energy, less anxiety, and healthy weight (without medication).
--- As for us, we jam on meditation, the relationship between self-awareness and self-trust and learning how to identify potentially harmful inherited narratives.
You know, just a nice, light afternoon chit-chat.
The Trust Your Gut summit begins next Monday, May 22 and runs through June 1.
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION + MORE INFO
I hope to see you there!
