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Easing Into You
What do you need right now?
Mindfulness Meditation – Not the Art of Doing Nothing
But the art of seeing options in every moment.
Opening the Endless Cans of Worms
My life hobby
Life is Messy
Photo by tabitha turner on Unsplash Life is messy… We make it so Be it changes, actions, emotions… like it or not it’s almost like…
Loving You… My Badass Teenager
It doesn’t matter that you roll eye at this too.
Everything Becomes Free
Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash The only reason we feel stuck or that we feel terrible is because we are stuck on the notion…
I Care More About Me
I Care More About Me. And that’s helpful.
A Moment of Spirituality
Through Guanyin and a human friend.
A list of good and bad
And why it’s nothing at all.
Unleashing What’s Hidden
Courageously… Gently…
Don’t… Please Look into my eyes
The tussle of wanting to connect
Let Them Drop
My recurrent nightmare… falling teeth
The Discipline of Undoing Habits
The irony of practicing mindfulness.
The life-changing moments
They change and didn’t change life.
The Willingness To Dive In
The unorthodox guide to confidence.
We Are All Falling Leaves
Taking stock of life (and death) at the brink of 40.
Holding Too Tightly
The fixation with loving ‘correctly’.
You Disappoint Me
Does it hurt within to hear this?
If Gentleness Is Here
So is all of life.
Not Who Everyone Thinks You Are?
And who might that be?
There Is No But; Only And
Contradictions and paradoxes are at peace.
When Dreams Feel Harder Than Life
The loving purpose of a dream
Beginner and Master
Not one without the other.
Truth be Told
Bunch of T-words for life.
What Does ‘Here’ Mean to You?
If it means anything at all.
My Daughter – The Warrior
Delicate by nature; Warrior-like by choice
Love the part of you that refuses to love you
By letting go of self-love… Wait, what?
The Simplicity of Well-Being
So simple… that we forget
Pragmatic and Sacred
All of life already is
Don’t be afraid to care
Don’t be afraid to care. Even when it seems like there is nothing much we can do.
My Love for Sugar and Awakening
Reconciliation with my sweet tooth
It has always been you
The one that will love me (and because it’s Valentine’s Day)
Do You Dare To Be… Not Busy
Courage and permission to sit with life
What is Truth?
Would anyone ever know?
Beginning & Ending
Aren’t they really the same thing?
The Lifelong Practice for Space
Is space the whole point of meditation?
Then and Now
What changes and what doesn’t in this endless journey of self-realisation?
Tussling With Thresholds
The invisible that hurts and give hope every New Year
Falling into Loneliness
An unavoidable path in this human experience.
Jetlag
And life. (A twilight reflection)
I Keep Quiet
To listen to pain.
My Heart Was Stolen for a Moment
A fleeting encounter; An inner longing
Quiet and bland
Moments that aren’t worth a story
A Poem from Emptiness
On those days when..
Freedom Rules… Hopefully, Not You
If you are rallying for freedom in bitterness, you are not free.
In Search of Hope in Darkness
5 ways to gently embrace the realities of rock bottom.
Paradox
The inevitable in self-realization.
Anxiety is Here
Embracing our survival instinct in overdrive.
Who am I?
A poetry that evokes ‘nothing’.
When Goal Setting Isn’t Working
Master the art of intention setting instead
My First And My Last..
The way to completeness moment to moment
The Willingness To Lose
The secret to aliveness.
Retreat into the Mountains? Or Stay in Reality?
Do you have the craving to retreat into the mountains but feel stuck being where you are?
Happiness can’t get to me because I believe it has to be earned
I must work really hard to be happy. Really?
Meditation Is Not About Regulation
No right or wrong. No steps or manuals to follow. No calming down or stilling the mind. No regulation. A complete rest. A complete ease.
Artificial Intelligence and Bliss
How did a documentary on A.I. give me days of bliss?
Learning to play with my feelings
To lean in and play in the midst of my emotional storm was my greatest gift to me.
Can I ??
We constantly doubt ourselves, despite our best attempts to think ‘I can’.
What if the day is already done?
If the day is all done and all you are doing is experiencing the journey the way you like it, how does that change your choices moment to moment?
Can’t Empty your Mind? Don’t.
'I can't stop thinking’ - One of the most common conversations we have in a mindfulness class. What do you do with these pesky thoughts?
I want to read
Why sitting with a book has become an indulgence? When has reading for the sake of reading become a guilty pleasure?
This Endless Yearning for Life to Matter
We want our life to matter. We yearn. Everyone does, be it outrightly or discretely. It’s absolutely not a problem until this happens..
Letting Go for Deeper Connection
The harder we cling in a relationship, the stronger the expectations and possibility of resentment? What is the alternative?
Is it Possible to be Non-Judgemental?
‘Don’t judge.’ Paradoxically, this single statement might have accounted for more judgements than any other judgemental statements. What really is non-judgement?
Change is Here
The world has experienced silence and there is no going back to ‘old times’. Change is happening. It is already here. There is no hiding nor pretending.
Reclaim the Right to Fall Apart
Modern Humanity has strangely abandoned and classified most of our stress relief instincts as weird, awkward, socially unacceptable, or childish. Why?
I am Afraid of my Kind – Women
The collective women’s pain lingers everywhere like a dense cloak and it sickens me. The longing to please, to support, to achieve, to plan, to take care, to win, to love.. all at once.
We Fight for Space
A conflict happens inside before it happens outside. How do we give space in a parent-child conflict?
Reframing for a Spacious Mind
https://youtu.be/0gvnCeidlAo I am not a big fan of positive thinking. Mainly because I don’t see that negative thinking occurs because we consciously wanted to. However,…
Light and Shadow
When there is light, there is shadow. The stronger I attach to what I thought was light, the darker the shadow. Eventually all forms of attachment create tension; no matter how right the ‘light’ is.
The Pain of ‘Being Stupid’
As I allowed my husband and daughter to witness what could be the most humiliating moment, not the losing but crying like a child over a game, something changed within me.
Who will catch me when I fall?
Do you have an immense fear of failing? Have you ever asked yourself who will catch you when you fall into that familiar dreaded and emotional dark hole?
We Achieve by Letting Go
Do you feel empty even when you have accomplished your goal? What is missing? What if the path to truly tasting success is to learn how to let go?
The day my 10-year-old tells me ‘I think I am a failure.’
'How can MY daughter think this way?'.. 'I am the one who has failed.' What happens when my kid tells me she is losing it and I begin to lose it too?
Are you Mindful of your Conditional Dream?
We tend not to clearly see the conditions we tag to our dreams and aspirations. Fears and vulnerabilities that are difficult to acknowledge and express. Yet we wonder why we procrastinate and never start.
Meditation and Pain.. Anyone?
The more pain and struggles you have, the more likely you will ‘succeed’ in mindfulness meditation?
See your passion for what it is
What is passion? An innate interest? Talent? Purpose?
Letting go of Meaning
Why do so many get lost in the search for ‘meaning’? Do you get lost in the meaning, or are you getting lost in the mind?
How are Mind Habits formed?
Understanding and navigating our mind habits and cultivating new ones has everything to do with emotional safety.
Why following through a change feels so tough? Diet, exercise, temperament etc.
If we learn from young that the uncomfortable is ‘not normal’ or something to be avoided, then self-motivated change will always be an uphill task.
The Simple Things to Confidence
Fake it till you make it, they say. Or does it reinforce the belief of 'being a fraud'? I stumbled upon confidence through this - Making my bed.
Want a Mindful relationship? – Say ‘Me first’
It takes a certain courage to choose to say, ‘No. We will not leave this to tomorrow.’ It takes a lot of awkwardness to say, ‘Touch me here. Not there.’
Too many new things; Too little Finishing
Running away from possible negative emotions and crushing thoughts? Or craving for 'good' emotions that come with embarking on something new?
Law of Attraction is Mindfulness in Action?
Don’t understand how ‘thinking’ can ‘manifest’ desires? How do you embody Law of Attraction? What has mindfulness got to do with manifestation?
The Greatest Potential of the Human Mind
What is highly accessible to everyone yet most people do not tap into it consciously. This potential is right here and you can do it right in this moment.
The Giver’s Guilt
Do you experience guilt as a parent or a caregiver? How do you power guilt to become a meaningful lifeforce for yourself and your relationship with your children/loved ones?
My Dog reminds me of my Mind
Your mind might be like your pet dog, it has a life of its own. When we turn our attention away, it assumes its own nature. What is your mind's nature?
Tell me.. Why do you try so hard?
How to drop into the ever-present opportunity to practice radical acceptance & compassion for yourself and your loved ones in your daily life.
For the New Year – Practice Being Human
The only way to be comfortable with uncertainty is to be comfortable with being wrong. To be comfortable with being wrong, is to be comfortable with being human
Meeting Me at Where I am
Accept or meet ourselves at where we are? Repeating these simple attitudes to undo this perpetual longing and craving to be like someone else other than me.
Finding Space in Negativity
Just because we shut down doesn’t mean negativity can’t find its way in.
What is here is here; all we are doing is create an inner war.
How do we ‘Drop’ our expectations?
The mindful journey of dropping.. no.. Softening our expectations.
Giving the Mind a Chance to Change
Many of us have unrealistic expectations of the mind because we do not see clearly the nature of our mind.
The Wheels we Set in Motion
Our choices set things in motion. Karma isn’t bad; it’s just what is. To me, it’s like a wheel set in motion. What kind of wheel are you setting in motion next?
Be an Empty Vessel
Look at the space you are in now. There’s always a space that holds what’s here. Connecting to the space within you is a doorway to resilience and possibilities.
Enough
It takes practice to slow down. It takes courage to stop and rest.
You are Enough. Breathe. Rest. Now.
How do I forgive myself?
I was listening to a podcast on self-forgiveness. A simple word struck me in the core and I laughed at the simplicity of it. The word – Sorry.
Death – The End I Live For
Whenever I fall into tunnel vision or petty views, I set my eyes on that certain endpoint. That goal and outcome that is certain and will never disappoint.
Lack and Abundance are Not Enemies?
Consider the possibility that the two are different sides of the same coin. Maybe abundance can only be felt in its full glory after feeling our deep pain in lack.
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Supposed positive thoughts like ‘I must be strong’ or ‘I must not let people down’ might create more tension than fulfillment in life? Find out if you have long-time ‘positive’ narratives in your mind that might take its toll on you.
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