THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE
My mother recently brought me a picture taken when I was playing with my friends as a child. It got me thinking about an excerpt from one of George Carlin’s comedy sets. He was talking about the fact that he wanted to live his life backwards. Living life backwards, we start out dead (we get […]
Be Mindful of Overthinking
Choose to be mindful of overthinking. When we overthink, we analyze and examine things too much, and that overthinking is an exertion of energy. We are investing our energy into everything that we choose to think about. So if we overanalyze, we are spending so much energy on one thing rather than expanding the possibilities […]
In-tune With The Five Senses
Most of us are very familiar with the five senses. We know that we can smell, hear, taste, touch, and see, but there is actually so much more going on. There are all these energy centers moving through every cell and fiber of our body, and in order to be fully connected with the sensations […]
Concentration Eliminates Distraction
The mind can appear like it is hard to control— some even say that it is easier to control the wind than it is to control the mind. But when we concentrate and focus on one thing, that can be all that exists. That is why often, in meditation, it is easier to light a […]
Space for Gratitude
Spend a moment to think about all of the people that we encounter through the course of the day and how beautiful it can be to give a space for gratitude for the simple things. Maybe it’s the person who let us in on traffic when they probably didn’t have to; who cleaned the last […]
Samskara: The Sum Of Our Actions
Start today by thinking about everything we did yesterday—every interaction, every experience, every thought, and every feeling and emotion— and then assign a positive or negative value to that entire day. Sum up all the emotions, feelings, and interactions we have yesterday into one emotion or energy. What would it be? The idea of Karma […]
Lighter By Letting Go
Ancient yoga philosophy talks about the practice of the Asana—the movement as a means to make the body feel light by moving energy in places of the body where the energy was stagnant before. It makes the body feel light through the big inhale we take in each movement of the posture and the pose […]
Nothing Is Finite Everything Is Infinite
Things that are finite are infinite, that nothing is really just defined by one thing. No circumstance is defined by one thing. We always have the option to expand our perception of everything. Consider that physicists spend their entire life trying to document the fundamental particles of existence. Even when we are lying still, we […]
Use Your Pain to Find Your Purpose
Take a moment to recall our deepest heartache, the most challenging struggle. Then focus on what we learned from them. The things that are most painful are giving us a reference frame for empathy and compassion for others who are going through the same thing. We have the opportunity to help others heal by sharing […]
Make This Breath Better Than the Last and Make This Moment Better Than The Past
Take a moment to focus on breathing. Invite in a long and deep inhale and then hold it. Yes, keep holding it. Now, the longer we hold this inhale, at some point we become desperate for the exhale. We realize that we cannot hold onto this inhale forever and we must let it go. We […]
