One area of meditation that challenges many of us is establishing a daily practice. How do we bring meditation into our life in a way that sticks? As Anne Cushman writes:
Paradoxically, the practices we know are most vital to our wellbeing are the very things that are usually pushed aside by d...
Our speedy, productivity-obsessed world tends to overlook sleep, even view it as a kind of necessary evil. Nothing could be further from the truth! Professor Matt Walker has this to say in his TED talk:
Sleep is a nonnegotiable biological necessity. It is your life-support system, and it is Mo...
After sitting and walking meditation, we worked with a reflective meditation technique called Six Ways of Knowing - a way of noticing the stories we tell ourselves so we can see them more clearly. The key, after identifying a challenge in our lives that has produced a recurring story in our mind, is...
After sitting and walking meditation, we shared a section from the book Difficult Conversations that talks about we argue and why it doesn't help. Here's an excerpt:
If the other person is stubborn, we assert harder in an attempt to break through whatever is keeping them from seeing what is se...