It feels like the world is getting smaller. As we shelter in place in our cocoons around the globe, we are tuning into the web of our interconnectedness more than ever. As we go through this together, our hearts are expanding out to meet it all. When there is a crisis, and the future is …
Most of our day-to-day lives are spent oriented toward the turning wheels of life and all the steps that it takes to keep those wheels greased. And yet, here we are in the stopping, the necessary inward and downward turn of our activity and attention to what is essential. At the surface level in a …
Hopefully, most of us are now ‘sheltering in place’, isolating to protect ourselves and others. It is an exercise in community cooperation, as well…we need to take care of each other in this way. It’s also time to take care of ourselves in a deep way. Uncertainty and anxiety abound; the moment and its ramifications …
This is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere, yet it seems like the hibernation is just beginning! It’s time to remember that these are the times that we have practiced for. Thank goodness that we have built skills of wisdom and strength and continue to work on a nervous system that is able …
The Eye of The Storm (with guided heart meditation) Read More »
Whatever we practice, we get better at, and we are always practicing something; either we are reinforcing habits, behaviors and reactions we already have or we are learning and reinforcing something new. Many of our behaviors and reactions are automatic and unconscious – we might call them ‘default’ practices. Conscious, intentional practice, on the other …