awakening
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While I’m a huge fan of mindfulness and mindful living, I’m also keenly aware of some of the risks that mindfulness entails. Some of the risks of being a regular practitioner include using meditation as an escape from unpleasantness, becoming unnecessarily compliant, or having experiences that trigger mental health issues. A quick search will lead Read more
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A few days ago, someone posted a deepfake on LinkedIn that was incredibly convincing. The faces, the voices, the backgrounds, and the movement were all so realistic that you couldn’t convince your brain to not see it as real. Even though you knew it wasn’t. It occurred to me then that this is a perfect Read more
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I tore my ACL and I can’t walk! I may need surgery! How is this a good thing?!? I don’t write much in here about what’s happening in my life. I prefer to write about ways that you, dear reader, can bring more presence into your life. This week, however, I will get personal. Two Read more
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In a post a few months back, I introduced the “Magic Mindfulness Question”. That question was “What’s happening?” I truly love that question for its power, its ability to focus the attention on what’s happening now, inside of us (our thoughts and feelings), around us, and by us, what we’re up to. Now, I would Read more
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Whether or not you’ve read Alice in Wonderland, you’re almost certainly familiar with the expression, and the experience, of going down a rabbit hole. Generally, it means that you’ve become engrossed in a line of thinking or research to such an extent that you’re not able to come back to familiar territory – you’re a Read more
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In my nearly 20 years as a coach who integrated mindfulness and coaching, I frequently made reference to a concept that I learned as a teenager: the inner game. I’d learned about the inner game from a wonderful, wonderful book called “The Inner Game of Tennis” by Timothy Gallwey. Published in 1974, exactly as I Read more
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This is my now, right now, mindfully witnessed. There are thoughts of what the content should be. About 75% of the field of awareness of trained on these thoughts., putting them into words and typing the words. There are sensations of fingers tapping keys. There is also peripheral awareness of sensations of a sore back Read more
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It’s not quite the same thing as a New Year’s resolution, but a New Year’s intention is more open, more flexible, more spacious than the word resolution has room for. I hope you’ll join me in trading your resolutions for intentions. An intention leaves more room for false starts, wrong turns, and screwups. An intention Read more
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Waking up isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s often likened to waking up from a dream and realizing that you weren’t really flying over Niagara Falls but in fact you’ve been lying in bed the whole time. The inference there is that it’s better to be awake than asleep, because people who are Read more
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