Change of scenery Sometimes, we all need a change of scenery, and that is why meditation is so profound. When we close our eyes, we create a completely different scene. The external has many distractions, and things are constantly changing out there. For some of us, change is scary. We know that change is inevitable […]
Listen carefully to everyone today. Think about how much of our time and communication is spent thinking about what we are going to say and not necessarily taking the time to really listen to what someone else is saying. Usually, when people begin talking, we are already trying to figure out what our response is […]
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 […]
Walk away feeling like we don’t have to wait for someone else to get out of our way in order to move forward. In order for us to really make progress, we need the understanding and awareness that the only way to do it is to move forward together. Think about what is required of […]
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 […]
Each of us have created a personal truth and a personal false. We create an idea of what we believe about ourselves and our potential, and that is rooted in either a personal truth or a personal false. The personal truth is empowering. It is giving us access to something more, what we know to […]
Think about the magic of the timing of the internet at this point and at this time. Without this World Wide Web, we might think that each of us is just sitting alone in our own space. Think about how, in 1918 for instance, the only way people knew that there was a problem going […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
