Although many of us are familiar with the name Maya. There are other associations with the name. Some say it means illusion, but in reality, the meaning goes deeper.
Maya is not just an illusion, it’s a living, responsive force. Like an electromagnetic field, it reacts to our focus, our emotions, our attachments. In Buddhist…
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Most people, I think, see their mindful practice as a way of finding peace by practicing or training the mind and body to allow energy to flow by accepting positivity and joy. There are times, though, when simply being mindful or having gratitude doesn't help. Those are generally times of…
Maya Angelou speaks about about the power of trusting silence, it’s spirituality and it’s ability to transform in times of stillness.
Listen to your Self
Tumultuous times provide many opportunities for us to cultivate and choose joy. When life seems bent on creating confusion and misery, that is the time to double down on choosing joy. A health-nut friend encouraged me to work out more by saying to me, "When you feel it is the hardest to do, that is…
Feeling bad is easy, it also tries to lie to you and get you to feel worse.
The mind tends to focus on bad stuff. It's habitual thinking. Habitual thoughts develop when you are a child, long before you had any real control over the direction of your thoughts, or even an understanding of the…
Working together, these heavy hitters maintain a joyful life.
Joy and manifesting joyfully have finally taken their rightful place in the culture. Joy is used by nearly everyone, nearly everywhere as a change agent. It seems like we're tapping into something we've craved for a long time. I remember joining a meditation group where…
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Language of meditation
When I first started meditation in the early 80’s, the idea of sitting in silence and quieting the mind was considered more than silly, it was crazy. In fact, an extreme type of meditation (staring at a wall and not moving or blinking) had me and…
I create as I speak. Each day you can journey from your Alpha (it begins with you) to your Omega, which in the teachings of Pierre Teilhard de … Daily Dose of Affirmation