It's Monday! A fresh week stretches before you, a canvas waiting for the masterpiece of your creation. We’re ditching the “blue Monday” vibes and embracing the potential that this new chapter holds, so let's start with a little bit of fun first. I LOVE Sweatpants and Coffee's Monday Motivations, maybe I'll include them more often … Continue reading The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What is it that makes a meditation of experiencing your 5 senses so useful? Firstly, grounding yourself in the feedback that your senses give you is an intensely "present moment" experience. Pulling all of your scattered attention - which is still trying to change the past and also control the future - back into one … Continue reading You will be rewarded with more love for the whole of your human experience.
Pema Chödrön's words lead us into today's meditation, igniting a spark of liberation within us. Growth, she whispers, isn't a grand escape, but a homecoming - a rediscovery of the infinite wellspring within. "Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already." - Pema … Continue reading Unveil your inner sky and befriend yourself.
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal … Continue reading Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison.
Meditation is not a practice of trying to escape, it is the exact opposite. A leaning in, paying precise attention to exactly what is there. As we become better at paying attention, we start seeing with more clarity what is temporary, what comes and also always goes. As we become better at recognizing what is … Continue reading Become aware of what has permanence.
"Our mind is like a blue sky. Clouds come and go. We tend to get caught up in the clouds and forget about the sky." - Andy Puddicombe "Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds, but it is always there." - Andy Puddicombe We know this to be true. Whenever … Continue reading There is a deeper part of you that is as timeless as the sun.
