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 … Read More >>Experience fulfillment: How thoughts and old perspectives cloud our experience.
How Mindfulness Transformed My Life: An Entrepreneur’s Journey
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 … Read More >>
Getting The Hang of Mindfulness…Slowly but Surely
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 … Read More >>Clear Seeing And Discovering Freedom
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 … Read More >>
How do we stay calm when things around us aren’t?
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 … Read More >>Breaking the Cycle of Insomnia – Embracing the Arms of Sleep
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 … Read More >>Showing Up In The Moment
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 … Read More >>Seeing Things: How mindfulness helped restore my lost sight
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 … Read More >>