How do you create physical space for yourself? What about mental space? These are places where we can begin our meditation practice.
Author: Beth
writer, teacher, yogi, meditator, dreamer.
Mindful Meditation Project, Day 6: The Lens of Gratitude
Developing the habit of naming our gratitude, of connecting with those things that bring us joy, peace, and meaning, is the first step in aligning with their energy to bring us more of that energy in our every day.
Mindful Meditation Project, Day 5: Perfectly Imperfect
Are we imperfectly perfect or perfectly imperfect? Is this all in our semantics? I see these as the same--we work to be perfect outside of ourselves (where we perceive imperfection) while at the same time, we are simply perfect. This duality is incredibly hard to comprehend when we have come from the traditionally trained and conditioned mindset that we are in no way, shape, or form perfect in anything, which is the cause of so much of our own self-inflicted suffering.
Mindful Meditation Project, Day 4: Cultivating Presence
Some days the 30 minutes seems like hours, but when I opened my eyes to rejoin the world, the sunrise spotted my floor, filtered through the crabapple tree leaves outside my window, and I felt refreshed. The headache lingered, but it didn't stop me.
Mindful Meditation Project, Day 3: Feeling Into the Heart Space
What an interesting meditation practice this morning. Despite having the background and training of being a meditation teacher, I'm always curious about new experiences in my process, and today what I realized was how the energy of one singular day--less than 24 hours, actually--can be so intensely and drastically different. Yesterday's practice was fairly light, …
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Mindful Meditation Project, Day 2: Inviting Feelings
That was the purpose of my practice, though if you watch my wrapup video below, you'll see that I also explored the idea of meditation being a place in which we can invite the feelings we attempt to outrun in an effort to fully feel, learn from, and ultimately release them.
Mindful Meditation Project, Day 1: Curiosity and Space
Do you have a meditation practice? Are you curious about developing one? Take ten minutes to watch and accept my invitation. I'd love to have you along for the journey.
Sunday Reflections
My dog sitting gig with the lovable and laughable Miss Curly is over, since her family of boys come home this evening from their trip to Florida. I know she'll be over the moon. I'll miss her tail therapy and walking wisdom, for sure.
Curly v. Bambi
I hoped we'd made a new friend on our walk today. Alas, Curly doesn't want new friends.
Missing Walking
I find myself craving a good, long, five or six mile trail walk starting at sunrise. Not quite sure why--Aries in Taurus, perhaps? Or the full grand conjunction in my sign? Impossible to know. I think most of it stems from needing, longing, and wanting to be doing something different with my life (Uranus in Taurus, y'all...) and not knowing exactly what.
One Soul, One Day, Two Men
I may have to sit in meditation more than once if only to keep myself afloat. I'm really grateful that someone higher than me (Spirit, God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, whatever you need to name it) was looking out for me and had my psychologist schedule an appointment for this afternoon before any of this was anticipated. Sometimes others know more than us, and trusting in that is a bigger message.
The Dance of Opposites
Life is a series of deaths
Signs
What we don't understand is how an entire community, including us, missed all the signs while you were alive that you didn't want to be with us anymore.
6 Short Days Ago
What were you thinking when you sent this? "This would be a nice, final text for her to see for the next 40 years as she questions the validity of our past 40 years of love and friendship together?" "Maybe there's hope for us after all?" "Should I call her and tell her the dark …
The Danger of the Stories We Tell Ourselves
So many of us fall into the pattern of believing what we think, when so very little of it is the truth. We believe what we're told, we believe what people do and say about us. We think people are whispering and gossiping about us, and when they do, that behavior is about them and not us. What others say about us (if they even do, at all), is not about our reality, it's about their perception. It's how they see us, not how we are.
Words by Beth 