A year of streaming my weekday morning meditation practice during the pandemic.
Read MoreLife is a beautiful thing.
Just take it all in and breathe,
breathe, breathe.
~ Creola Johnson
Read More“There usually isn’t a quick fix to what makes our lives so challenging, and that’s okay. A meditation practice, even as brief as a couple of minutes a day, can teach us how to accept the discomfort instead of trying to calm it down.”
~ Jinger Moore
Read MoreBroken streaks are demoralizing. This is why shooting for unbroken streaks leads so easily to feeling disappointed in ourselves and giving up on the whole project.
What can you do when you break your attentional fitness training streak?
Read More"You are the awareness of your thoughts. You are not your thoughts. You can let your thoughts happen. Just know that the real you is the awareness."
~ RuPaul
Read MoreWhen you begin a walking or running program, there are several details you can track as evidence of improvement. Your step count. The length of your stride. Your pace. The amount of time it takes your heart to return to its recover its baseline resting rate.
But how will you know when you’re getting better at noticing perceptions?
Read MoreWhat keeps us holding out for these perfect, comfortable lives that we imagine? And how can training your attention help address these habits?
Read MoreWhat makes it so difficult for us to pay attention at any given moment? It seems like it should be easy.
Read More“The trouble with explaining this work is that it is so simple that we don’t want to believe it."
~ Trudy Goodman
Read More"This is my daily practice: watching each experience rise and fall within me, like waves in the ocean, while the world goes on doing what it will do."
~ Jillisa Hope Milner
Read MoreWhen I talk to people about finding stories in their life, I'm talking about finding things that are almost in their everyday that they can bring great meaning to and connect to audiences or to people around the lunch table.
~ Matthew Dicks
Read More"When blind people learn to see, sighted people seem inspired to want to learn to see their way better, more clearly, with less fear, because this exemplifies the immense capacity within us all to navigate any type of challenge, through any form of darkness, to discoveries unimagined when we are activated."
~ Daniel Kish
Read MoreMindfulness practice doesn’t eliminate my personal narrative. It gradually changes my relationship to it.
Read MoreIf your strategy for trying to live in the present more doesn't acknowledge that the present often sucks, you will find yourself frequently convinced that you have failed instead of realizing that your expectations are unrealistic.
Read MoreThe dilemmas related to attentional fitness are similar to the more familiar dilemmas that make physical fitness easier to discuss than to turn into habits. A mindfulness teacher has to sell you on the possible outcomes, but also has to steer you back again and again to the slippery path that leads to them.
Read More"The significance of the labyrinth is that it forces you — in order to get to the center — to go around the entire space. And familiarity with the entire path is very important when we’re walking a path."
~ Soryu Scott
Read MoreCaretake this moment.
Immerse yourself in its particulars.
Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed.
~ Epictetus
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