Reflections

Why Practice Mindfulness?

Our minds are usually filled with thoughts. And these thoughts can carry us away with all kinds of associations. We’re usually planning or fearing the future or dwelling on the past. We may become distracted, confused, or continually ruminate on the same things. We lose sight of the basic awareness

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Follow Your Creative Spirit

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow…”—Kurt Vonnegut There is little in life that doesn’t require creativity. Even if we have the same daily routine, there are choices to be made. Every day is different from the one that came

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Focus on the Now: Find Stability Amid Change

I am a fluid, ever-changing work in progress. In Tibetan, sentient beings, conscious creatures that can have both positive and negative experiences, are called drowa, translated as ‘migrating creatures.’ That means we are always in a state of transition. We travel, we move, and we change. Our body is in

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Acceptance-Doorway to Transformation

Everything must change; nothing stays the same. All things pass away, but new things are constantly being born. Life goes on in a continual flow. Einstein said that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and we are energy beings. There are no true endings, only changes of form. Whether

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Getting it all done-focus on what matters

If you are like me and many others, your ‘to-do’ list is endless. As soon as you cross something off, you add something else. Some essential things must get done on time, like paying bills or doing taxes. There are work-related tasks, home upkeep, shopping lists, and obligations to friends,

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Simplify, simplify

As spring arrives, there’s a sense of change in the air. While change happens in every moment to every living thing, there are phases when this constant change becomes more apparent. Spring is a time when not only do we see new growth in plants and trees, but we sense

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Intention

The new year is well underway, and, as always, time moves quickly. Many of us make resolutions each year, which we may have already broken–I’m guilty of that! But each day is a new start, and we can always begin again to set goals or make aspirations for how we

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Rest and Renewal

  Today, December 21, 2022,  at 4:48 PM Eastern time, the Northern Hemisphere will be at the furthest point from the sun, and therefore we will experience the shortest day of the year and the longest night. This is the Winter Solstice. Sol is the Latin word for Sun, and

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Overcoming Obstacles

Plots in fiction often consist of a character wanting something and being continually hindered. Without these obstacles, roadblocks, twists, and turns, there wouldn’t be a story. Our lives unfold in the same way. Without obstacles, there would be no path to traverse. What is an obstacle? An obstacle is something

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