Have you ever left a closed water bottle in your car during summer and the heat caused it to expand, distorting the original form? You can open the bottle a bit to release the warm air and it will regain some of it’s original shape, usually. If there was more than water inside the bottle, …
Are you content? This question is more “in general” rather than a specific moment in time. More specifically, are you content with your relationships, health, finances, home, community, planet? If not, why not? Perhaps you can rationalize your discontentment by pointing to others for your emotional state. There are likely associated stories that you repeatedly …
As the seasons change, performing a cleanse is a useful way to reset the body, mind and spirt. As we prepare in the Northern Hemisphere to move into spring, it it time to prepare ourselves for the upcoming growing season of summer. If we were planning for a garden, this would be the time to …
Healthy relationships are rooted in a healthy relationship with the self. If you do not believe you deserve love, are not capable of loving, or don’t know how to love, your relationships will tend to reflect those beliefs. When you believe you are unworthy and incapable, you’ll interpret others actions and reactions as confirmation to …
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi Many years ago, I realized I not only didn’t love myself, I barely even liked myself. I treated myself as an enemy until the self-loathing became bad enough to …
Discovering equanimity is a three step process; once you have cleared the path and started building for equanimity, the final step is maintaining focus on equanimity. The Law of Conservation of Energy, (the first law of thermodynamics) states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one …
Balance in the body is simple- everything you ingests must be digested and either assimilated or eliminated. If it’s not being digested, you’ll feel lousy and eventually get sick. If what is digested isn’t being assimilated, you’ll be malnourished and if it’s not eliminated, you’ll be constipated, with both scenarios leading to illness. This balance …
With the new year comes new ideas, intentions and dreams. What’s the point of making these if the conditions for success aren’t optimal? The best lessons I have learned about creating the conditions for optimal success have some from learning how to garden. Before you even start a garden, you plan to start a garden. …
The opportunity to vote was something that I looked forward to for my eighteenth birthday. There has never been a Presidential election I have missed and few midterm and local elections that I have missed in the three decades since. Yet, with each election, I find myself wondering if my vote truly matters. I was …
This is a super simple mindfulness practice. I particularly appreciate it because I have been to a tea plantation in Assam, India and I grow my own herbs for herbal tea. Having that level of connection to tea isn’t required. You can certainly do this with coffee, too. It doesn’t take a ton of time, …