Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Addictions, Mindfulness, Moving Forward

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape — all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can’t stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

Appreciation, DREAMS, Mindfulness

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Mindfulness, Right Action, Solitude, Understanding

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.

Book Suggestions, Meditation, Mindfulness

BOOK SELECTION OF THE WEEK

Pico Iyer is primarily known for his travel writing.  He jets around the globe more than a pilot with an International route.  But he has also always been a seeker of secular serenity. He has written several books about it. He has travelled with the Dalai Lama. He spends time each year in different types of retreats in search of quiet, peace and stillness. In this, his latest book, and one of TED’s first in their new publishing enterprise, Pico… Read More

Ego, Letting Go, Mindfulness

Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

Courage, Mindfulness, Self-Worth

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are-what others say is irrelevant.

Holidays, Living Fully, Mindfulness

THE MASTER OF NOW

  His name is Marco. The other cats in the household call him Mister Marco. He and his sibs have been in the family for 10 years, gifted to us in our back yard, where they were born while we were on vacation. Have no idea who mom and dad were. Like many of the world’s wonderful creatures, these little guys provide unwavering loyalty, unconditional love, and sweet companionship. But as of late, I’ve realized that Marco is here for… Read More

Mindfulness

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.

Clarity, Living Fully, Mindfulness

5 WAYS TO LET GO AND BE IN THE MOMENT

“Some people think it’s holding that makes one strong – sometimes it’s letting go.” ~Unknown~ On a recent fall day I was in New York City’s beautiful Central Park teaching my boot-camp class with an amazing group of women. We mix it up with cardio, strength training and yoga and we love being outside. We often close with a relaxation pose, lying on our backs on the ground. As we got comfortable and opened our hearts towards the sky, we… Read More

Mindfulness, Mistakes

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.