Go easy. Go slow. Go simple. Go small.
When we’re creating a new habit, it’s usually easy at first. We’re excited to be doing something new and good for ourselves!
And then the honeymoon wears off and we slide back into our old habits. Have we failed?
Continue readingIt doesn’t have to be! You have all the tools you need already to expand your horizons infinitely.
If we spend our time only using our mind to perceive reality, we miss out on a lot of what’s going on. We miss out on all of the things that our mind simply doesn’t pick up on.
Same if we’re only relying on our body/gut/instinct (however you think of that kind of perception). Or only navigating using our emotional intelligence.
Continue readingEver felt a bit lost or lonely or depressed?
(Ah, welcome to humanity circa… modern times.)
What about those times when you go into a spiral of lost, lonely or depressed that you can’t seem to get out of? Yuck!
That happened to me a few weeks ago, and I want to share with you how I got out of it!
Continue readingDo you have a friend that you can be honest with? That you feel safe enough with that you can give and receive truth from, even when it’s not so comfortable?
Most relationships are more surface, which is usually a good thing.
Most of us aren’t equipped to hear what everyone really thinks, and most of us think so many goofy things, that it’s not great to be sharing all that silliness anyway. Certainly my inner critic does not need to be given free rein to speak her mind to everyone all the time!
And what the heck does that even mean?!
I can definitely say that I wasn’t when I started meditating! I was all over the place, and as I started to be self-aware enough to see the patterns I was running in my life, I realized that 1.) it was going to take a while to sort out my anger issues! and 2.) it was possible!
First, what we start with in many kinds of meditation is training our attention, which 99% of us have totally lost control over.
Continue readingAnd why should you care?
Processed food is food that’s been….
… wait for it….
… processed!
(Ok, ok, I know. But when else was I going to get to make that silly joke?)
For example taking a tomato off the vine (it’s natural state) and cooking it and turning it into tomato sauce.
Usually processed foods are marketed as a convience for you. The idea given is that it is faster and easier for you to buy that jar of sauce than to buy tomatoes and make it yourself.
What do I mean by that?!
I mean that you’re not able to focus on anything for more than a few seconds at a time before your attention wanders away, and you aren’t able to keep it from wandering even if you try.
I totally didn’t believe this at first.
You probably don’t either, so I’m going to give you an example and a simple exercise to test it out for yourself.
— Definitely don’t just believe this craziness! Find out for yourself! —
Continue readingWhat do you need to do to have a successful mindfulness practice? What is your investment in time, money & energy?
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