You can feel things, without being things.You can feel sad, angry, lonely, disordered or unwell without being sad, angry, lonely, disordered or unwell. The truth is, you couldn’t be those things if you tried. What you are doesn’t change. What you are is the same one energy that is all things. The all-that-is-ness within which feelings
There’s a lot of talk about fake news these days. A good portion of what we hear is untrustworthy. Untested. Not just biased—flat out untrue.But what about the fake news in our own heads? So much of what we hear from our own thinking is also untrustworthy, untested, biased and untrue.My friend Craig Bissell recently pointed
I had a close friend in graduate school. I’ll call her Karen. A few years before I met Karen, her mom died after a long illness. Because Karen was the oldest child (Karen’s parents were divorced), she was responsible for making some critical medical decisions on her mother’s behalf.She never knew exactly what her mother
I bet you’ve tried change the hard way. Pretty much everyone has. The hard way is where you fall into one or more of these traps:You consider your habit or unwanted behavior a huge problem; it looks like a personality flaw, a weakness, or maybe even a disease. It hasn’t occurred to you that your unwanted
You don’t actually “have” a habit. There’s no stability there, so there’s nothing to have.There may be consistency. That’s the definition of a habit—something that habitually, consistently arises.But there is no stability. Your habit is a thought that arises within you. It is not yours. You don’t own it or have it and it doesn’t own
There is nothing in the world that can’t be worked out by taking things one…moment…at…a…time. There are no unanswerable questions and no unsolvable problems. There is no angst or anxiety. All is ridiculously well when you simply Stay Here and do what occurs to you in this very moment.It doesn’t have to be right or good
The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.” ~Pema ChodronMy family recently drove from Michigan to North Carolina—twenty hours roundtrip. To entertain themselves, my five-year-old daughter Willow taught my three-year-old son Miller to play rock-paper-scissors in the backseat.Miller learned the hand signals and got the overall concept pretty quickly, but
Do me a favor. Open both of your hands, palms up. You have an empty left palm facing up, and an empty right palm facing up.Imagine that your left hand represents what you feel and experience. In that hand is feelings of happy, scared, excited or nervous. In that hand is experiences of hunger, sleepiness, pain
This article was originally published in July 2016.There’s an inner churning that happens. Or a circling, perhaps. Like a dog circling the rug, looking for a soft place to rest.That circling is what happens when a mind is disturbed. I don’t mean disturbed in any sort of stable or unhealthy way. Disturbed is a temporary experience, not a
While I was at the Three Principles Global Community conference last week, and really kind woman stopped me in the lobby. She told me that she loved the story below so much that she was going to include it in her holiday cards this year.Really?! Well, that’s pretty awesome. I told Willow, the star of this
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