by Matthew Kelley Consider this scenario: A car alarm goes off near your office, and you become distracted. As it continues, you become irritated, “Where is the owner of the car?”. Directing your attention back to work, the noise fades. The alarm didn’t stop. You stopped paying attention. One moment you’re distracted, then the sound […]
Experience fulfillment: How thoughts and old perspectives cloud our experience.
Posted on January 13, 2018 //
How Mindfulness Transformed My Life: An Entrepreneur’s Journey
Posted on January 13, 2018 //
Image credit: Max Pixel After I started my own business, I found myself in a real funk. Everyone at my old place kept wishing me well, and customer orders kept pouring in; but I was struggling to cope and enjoy my new business. In many ways, I felt cheated. Here I was, doing this amazing […]
Getting The Hang of Mindfulness…Slowly but Surely
Posted on January 11, 2018 //
by Susan Shea I have been a “casual student” of mindfulness for more than 20 years now. Initially I was seeking relief from the stress of being a new college graduate who did not know what to do next. I had been in school for so many years that I felt lost without the structure […]
Clear Seeing And Discovering Freedom
Posted on October 3, 2017 //
Once Upon A Time (this is a blog about stories after all)… I was sitting in a peaceful meditation hall situated amidst beautiful countryside, alongside a group of other silent meditators. And into that stillness arose a white-hot bolt of pure anger. Where on earth did that come from?!? I’d learned to embrace many painful […]
How do we stay calm when things around us aren’t?
Posted on September 15, 2017 //
by Scott Haber You can have anger without acting angry. You can feel anger yet not be angry. Anger is an internal state; it can be physiologically felt and cognitively observed. When anger arises, a sense of tension is present in our bodies. Our breathing quickens and shallows, our temperature may elevate, or we may […]
Breaking the Cycle of Insomnia – Embracing the Arms of Sleep
Posted on August 29, 2017 //
by Richard Flanagan My name is Richard and I’m an insomniac. Or at least I was. Now I sleep, pretty much, through the night – an extremely positive change that I attribute, largely, to regular doses of meditation (no, not medication – meditation). My particular brand of insomnia was the kind that prevented me from […]
Showing Up In The Moment
Posted on May 12, 2017 //
by Emerson Dameron I’m not 100% sure that my meditation practice is changing my life. Nevertheless, every day, I sit down, check in, and do it. Perhaps meditation helps some people rein in their egos and emotions. With proper technique and significant time investment, maybe it will give me superpowers. But I suspect that meditating […]
Seeing Things: How mindfulness helped restore my lost sight
Posted on May 2, 2017 //
by Vanessa Potter As I started to wake, and sleep loosened its grip on me I stretched out my body feeling the warmth of the morning sun caress my face. A heartbeat later the crushing reality of where I was hit me like a high-speed train. I was not at home lying within the safety […]