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Mindfulness

Keep your Dreams Clean

January 26, 2012

“Your goals minus your doubts equal your reality” – Ralph Marston Exactly. In graduate school I studied the way information is mentally represented. How concepts are stored and processed and retrieved. I’m actually going to put that knowledge to use here because the way you mentally represent your dreams and your doubts is important. It [...]

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A new form of suffering-repellent

October 13, 2011

I’ve found a practice that is suffering-repellent. Be like water. That’s how Wayne Dyer puts it. DO be fluid and easy and fill in the cracks; DON’T be firm and rigid and unyielding. Yield. Don’t concretize and solidify your thoughts. That’s how Pema Chodron puts it.  Soften around your thoughts, don’t harden around them. Be [...]

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Success is sooo much more likely than failure

September 15, 2011

You might not believe me at first but I swear it’s the truth…. We’re infinitely more likely to succeed in life than to fail.  When you really think about it, much more goes right than wrong. Even on your worst day ever. This doesn’t feel true because—in a totally protective and adaptive way—we’re inclined to [...]

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Changing your story: An unbelievable personal tale

September 11, 2011

Technologically speaking, it’s been a hell of month. I wouldn’t believe it if I wasn’t (barely) living through it. It all started August 9th when hubby, Willow and I were driving from Detroit to Montreal. We purposely chose to do the 10 hour drive during a work day so that I could work most of [...]

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Look away….is your problem still there?

May 26, 2011

My man Michael Neill says: Think of a problem. Now ask yourself, would this problem still exist if I stopped thinking about it?  (I have such a huge mind crush on this guy it’s not even funny.) Go ahead, try it. Real problems remain, even when you stop thinking about them. In fact, real problems [...]

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Fight for your Right to Party. Not to Worry.

March 30, 2011

I get this question all the time when I’m helping people with chronic, habitual fear and worry. “But isn’t worry helpful, to some extent?” they ask, fighting for their right to worry. “Isn’t it protective?” From what do you think you need protection? The fear that your mind made up to begin with? Yes, that’s [...]

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It’s On

March 24, 2011

This is it. There’s nothing to wait for. You’re not getting ready for anything. You’re not in preparation. This is it. There is no “when…” or “if…” Dot, dot, dot isn’t real. Life is NOW, it’s not waiting for dot, dot, dot. If you’re waiting for anything before you start living full out or being [...]

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Practicing Gratitude

November 24, 2010

This was originally called, ‘Be Grateful’. Until I thought about how Being Grateful and Practicing Gratitude, are two very different things. Being Grateful is often a momentary feeling; a one-shot deal. It happens when you’re waiting for a root canal and you suddenly feel profoundly grateful for general anesthetic. Or it’s your turn around the [...]

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Much More to Presence

October 13, 2010

Mindfulness is what we practice to cultivate presence. Presence is the state of being totally immersed in what’s right in front of us. The perk of presence that I usually focus on is that fear, worry, negative thoughts fall away. This is because those things do not exist in the Now. They are completely and [...]

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Ick, Mindfulness

October 9, 2010

If my mind were a person, it would be this man: Can you relate? I love my blog readers. And I hate the topics of mindfulness and meditation so much that I feel kind of guilty doing this to you right now. So for my own peace of mind, I have to include this little [...]

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