In the whirlwind of daily life, it’s really easy to get caught up in our own heads. Perpetually jumping between anxieties about the future, and regrets about the past. This constant state of mental time travel leaves us feeling exhausted and disconnected from the richness of the present moment. We become like ghosts haunting our … Continue reading Are you trying to live in a moment that doesn’t exist?
Could you imagine yourself peeling back layers, revealing a truer, more authentic you beneath? This is not just a handy metaphor, it's the reality of what meditation does. While we have accumulated these layers in an attempt to make ourselves more presentable, more acceptable to the world, this inauthentic self we’ve been constructing becomes our … Continue reading You are becoming more and more you, as the old layers of armour slowly unravel.
“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.” - Dan Harris A trap we easily fall into when trying to do better, to grow, to heal, is reaching for an "ideal" way of being or feeling as a kind of proof of our progress. It's easy to be … Continue reading Without self-acceptance, we’re never truly safe to be honest with ourselves.
While we have a guided meditation every day of the week, on Sundays the meditation is just quiet. Just you sitting with your own silence, and knowing that all of us are sitting in our own silence along with you. "It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet … Continue reading You ARE the voice of wisdom.
A message from today's meditation: "When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them." - Jon Kabat-Zinn "Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?" - Jon Kabat-Zinn "Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, … Continue reading Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
I want you to really hear this... I want you to remember this... You are worthy! You are deserving! You are whole! And... You are not separate from any of this, you are a part of this universe, the universe is inside you, you ARE the universe! "Perhaps we just need little reminders from time … Continue reading Practice sharing the fullness of your being.
Today's journey is SUPER practical, and actually really simple. How good is your brain at concentrating? At keeping focus? And is this an ability that you can develop? "The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment." - Jon Kabat-Zinn This doesn't mean that we shouldn't make ourselves … Continue reading It’s the process of paying attention, that changes the brain significantly.
Letting go... or hearing the words, "just let it go" is one of those disservices we do to ourselves and others while we're trying to be really well meaning. It feels like the right thing to say but we all have our own moments of struggling with our own personal example of not being able … Continue reading Just let it go…
On being present... Some of Jon Kabat-Zinn's most well known work is on the theme of being present, as illustrated by the very fitting title of one of his books, "Wherever you go, there you are." Today's meditation journey approaches being present from two perspectives: What do we gain from being present with our outer … Continue reading Become available to what this moment makes available to you.
With the week ahead of you, how do you want to show up to the challenges that this week brings? While some of the challenges we face come towards us from the outside, we all experience internal obstacles from time to time too. Looking at the week ahead, you might have an idea of the … Continue reading Meet every moment with full awareness.
Letting go... or hearing the words, "just let it go" is one of those disservices we do to ourselves and others while meaning really well. It feels like the right thing to say but we all have our own moments of struggling with our own personal example of not being able to let something go … Continue reading How the f#@k do we let go?
