"A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is not actively meditating."...
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth Do you remember taking those swimming tests when you were...
I posted my last blog just before Hurricane Sandy's arrival. I apologize. Reading about meditation equipment, or probably anything related to meditating, is totally boring in comparison to...
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -- Henry Ford I have tried and failed at meditating more times than I can count. This time I'm beginning...
In my last post, Why Learning to Meditate is Like Learning to Run, I noted that I had never managed to make room in my life for regular meditation sessions. Like most people, I would go...
"To me, the relationship between meditation and running is natural, for one is a training of the mind and another is a training of the body." -- Sakyong Mipham My recent post "Awakening...
I was so relieved to hear straight from the mouth of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism that it's not about religion. I had already heard this message from Eckhart Tolle in his...
"With synchronicity, all the resources we need are made available for us at the precise moment that is appropriate. The people who come into our lives are the ones we need at that moment...
"My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy." -- John Bryant Personal transformation is a jokester. It sneaks up and bites you on the butt when you least...
When I posted my last piece, "Mastectomy Day", it wasn't on my radar screen that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. I had had another blog topic in mind, but was suddenly...
Each year, roughly 50,000 breast cancer patients in the United States undergo mastectomy (total removal of the breast).* Revisiting the journals I kept at the time of my own breast...
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." -- Virginia Woolf When was the last time you made yourself a really great meal? Just for you. Not trying to...