Way too often, people come to Yoga with a certain set of expectations. They may force their bodies into postures...
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]In our weekly Psychological & Spiritual Therapy column, therapist Jack Surguy...
A vacation from distractions I recently decided to spend the holidays away from my life. I packed my things and...
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]In our weekly Psychological & Spiritual Therapy column, therapist Jack Surguy...
The challenges of eating on a different continent Having spent the holidays in Europe with my two young adult children...
Mindfulness for everyone Last April, I spent an evening with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the biologist and mindfulness teacher who gave a...
So what is meditation, really? People always ask me, “What exactly is meditation?” It’s not rocket science. It’s not something...
It’s a clear winter morning. As I look at the blue sky and the leafless branches quivering in the wind,...
Metacognition and the mind Metacognition is a term used by psychologists that refers to thinking about thinking: thinking about our...
Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier (24)” streams at 29 percent volume while I write this. My go-to writing music, Baroque, floats wave-like...
The following has been excerpted from Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-Five Paintings to Change the Way You Live, in which psychiatrist...
The following has been excerpted from spiritual teacher Joseph Emet’s latest book, Finding the Blue Sky, in which he writes...
The following has been excerpted from Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through...
Part of mindfulness practice is to have a nonjudgmental acceptance of how things are, right now, in this very moment....
During a lively dinner table conversation I once participated in, the subject of prayer was broached. A young woman described...
We grow from imaginative play with the world In a mind-drifting moment during Yoga practice this morning, I flashed on...
What is awareness? Adyashanti tells us that awareness is that part of us that perceives, observes and witnesses our thoughts, feelings,...
For the majority of my life I have suffered from glossophobia, which is the fear of public speaking. I imagine that most people reading this can relate, as surveys have shown that 3 out of every 4 people tend to experience some level of speech anxiety that troubles them when they deliver public speeches. Over the years, my own level of speech anxiety has gone from sweating profusely to having a full-on panic attack and, for a long time, I attempted to simply avoid speaking publicly.
Argentina, the land of cattle ranches and parillas (steakhouses), and yet there I was at a Hare Krishna Eco Yoga Farm eating vegan pizza. My foodie senses had certainly led me off the beaten path but, in a way, it was meant to be.
MASTERING YOUR MEAN GIRL: Becoming wildly wealthy, fabulously healthy, and bursting with love Melissa Ambrosini [TarcherPerigee, 288 pages] When I...
Bhavana, meaning to cultivate or develop but commonly used in Buddhism as a word for meditation, once again flashes before...
After Meditating in the Forest Doi Suthep-Pui National Park A wind filters through me, my lungs swell, unswell—. Buried beneath...
WIRED TO CREATE: Unraveling the mysteries of the creative mind Scott Barry Kaufman, Carolyn Gregoire [Penguin Group USA, 286 pages]...
IN ALL THINGS: When all of life becomes a meditation
Every evening after work he descended into his small basement apartment, assumed a lotus position in front of a blank space of wall and began counting his breaths, fiercely concentrating on each number until nothing occupied his consciousness but the number—1… 2… 3…
