At the start of this pandemic I heard, for the first time, the song of the video above, “I love me” by Meghan Trainor and Lunch Money Lewis. I fell hard for this song. It became THE song that I blasted in the kitchen and danced to every morning. I am still not sick of …
V’ahavta by Aurora Levins Morales Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts, embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders, teach them to your children, your …
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The problem with seeing the regular way… is that sight naturally prefers outer appearances. It attends to the surface of things, which makes it an essentially superficial sense. We let our eyes skid over trees, furniture, traffic, faces, too often mistaking sight for perception. Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark The Meditation …
Meditation Mantra of the Month; Drishti — focal point / direction of gaze / direction of attention All month long I have been playing the same drishti game with myself. This is how I play it…I’m staring at my phone reading an article or watching a clip of Stephen Colbert and look UP from my …
The meditation mantra of the month is the word “drishti” which is a focal point or the direction of your gaze. I will often give cues for how to turn your head; directing your gaze to the corner where the ceiling and the wall meet or finding something to focus on that isn’t going to …
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That’s why I mostly mutter May Wisdom Guide & Hope Sustain, when left to my own devices. I think it is sufficient and keeps me from piling on my emotional baggage and fragile ego.
I’ve been teaching a breathing practice lately that I get the sense makes some peoples skin crawl or they just choose to completely ignore me. It’s the “I Love You on the Exhale” practice. You take a big inhale through your nose and on the exhale you mutter quietly (but outside your head) I love …
Healing is a transformation of view rather than a cure. It involves recognizing your intrinsic wholeness and, simultaneously, your connectedness to everything else. Above all it involves coming to feel at peace within yourself. – Jon Kabat-Zinn Last February I started going to a chiropractor after discovering that my pelvis & shoulder girdle were all …
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Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts, embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders teach them to your children, your neighbors, your enemies, recite them …
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