Okay, one of them is how easy it is to forget to brush your teeth. Another is forgetting how to talk to people–like, the cashier at the health food store doesn’t really care about your thoughts on coconut oil as a face cream. And third, I’m just hypothesizing with a Read more…
I sat for 15 minutes today, which feels like such a victory, even though it is short my original goal for the month. Goals should be smart, attainable, etc–but how do you move forward after failure? I gave up once before, after art school, because I couldn’t visualize a viable Read more…
It’s raining and the cold is coming back, and just when I’ve gotten pots to transplant all my sprouts into, too! It’s also cold and raining on my grand plan to be better at mindfulness than I was last year. My brain is fighting mindfulness the most, and this month Read more…
today was not unlike yesterday. The difference is that I’m going to drink my hot cocoa now and then listen to a sleep deeply meditation. Fingers crossed it’s not a glowing ball of golden light type of visualization.
I’m really struggling to find my focus for more than 30 minutes at a time. I don’t think it is meditation’s fault or failure, and I think that my problem is beyond meditation’s ability to address. But man, was today tough. I’m just now done with the bare minimum I Read more…
I watched a TED talk today, and I KNOW they are the lazy first-year professor’s friend which should tell me something. After all, I watched that hilarious segment on John Oliver: But, not unlike the spectrum of junk food, some of these really are good! (Here’s the one I watched): Read more…
I learned about guided relaxation early. I took a class in the fifth grade with a girl I considered my best friend in the way that fifth graders are wont to do. It may have been a class in meditation, but we were kicked out not long after it started, Read more…
M turned 53 today. Nonmeditation tonight because we spent too long in town, eating fancy pizza and cheap pie. The latter with an old friend of mine from high school who has been a great friend to us both since we moved here. It was a good night of delicious Read more…
Brief note: today I tried my first real tonglen meditation, guided (via an app)(I know, but it has some good teachers and the best bell sounds that I’ve found if I just want the timer). First, I read what Pema Chödrön had to say about it, and then I tried Read more…
I was exceedingly distracted by social media today. The March Shredness project has so many great essays and essayists and I am enamored with the conversations happening and the terrible videos. Add to that trying to put some panels together for NonfictionNow in Phoenix in November, and FB and Twitter Read more…