Reading Time: 5 minutesAn interest phenomenon occurs anytime we sit down and meditate to cultivate more positive qualities of mind and heart. Rather than experience those positive qualities themselves, we often feel quite the opposite. We sit on our meditation cushion to watch our breath but are unable to follow it for even a few seconds. We sit […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutesI believe, quite simply, that love is the reason we are here on earth, and that nothing is more meaningful or powerful than the expression of love. I see every problem in the human condition as the result of a lack of love, and every solution as more expansive and inclusive love. But in order
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Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople everywhere are learning more and more about their attachment style. What was once a relatively obscure psychological theory, has now exploded into a compendium of surveys, books, trainings, and therapies. Although John Bowlby passed away over thirty years ago, he would be happy to know that his attachment theory has now entered the mainstream.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the greatest misconceptions I have found about the practice of meditation is that it is supposed to be easy. A huge reason for this is the abundance of workshops, classes, and apps that advertise meditation as simply a relaxation technique. Many people are even told by their meditation teachers that all they need
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Reading Time: 7 minutesIf you practice in a meditation community for any period of time, it will not be long before you hear a reference to the monkey mind. The monkey mind is a concept used to describe how the mind behaves, which is typically pretty erratic. It jumps from one thought branch to another thought branch, endlessly
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the most profound and simultaneously challenging insights on the spiritual path is that our mind is inherently dual in its thinking and there are nondual ways to be in the world. To make things even more interesting, there is the common teaching that when we do experience even the slightest hint of nondual
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Reading Time: 7 minutesThe experience of love tends to have two sides. The first side says that love is the most beautiful, powerful, and meaningful experience on the planet. This side is bolstered by research that says humans are literally born for love: we are social beings, we thrive on social connection, and we need to feel a
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Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I wrote about the importance of realizing that love is a verb. By turning love into an action, we bring love into the present moment and provide a call to action to build a more loving the world. There is another very important feeling related to love that I want to talk about
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Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of my most favorite ways to teach spiritual wisdom is through a 200hr yoga teacher training. The three weeks we get to spend together combined with the intention to grow fully into our purpose and love in community creates a potent recipe for transformation. However, one thing many students struggle with is what to
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Reading Time: 4 minutes“Okay everyone, let’s all focus on our breath.” It is an instruction we almost always hear at the beginning of a meditation or yoga class. It seems like an important and vital thing to do, but few teachers go into the specifics of exactly why we are focusing on the breath in the first place.
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