As I celebrate my 43rd trip around the sun I find myself filled with extreme gratitude. I am grateful for the journey and the guide of the universe as I embrace life as it is. 42 was really the answer to the universe! I am a bit sad to say goodbye. I am grateful for the support of my family and teachers. Every single day is a blessing that brings new wonder and possibility. Times may be challenging but I feel held and supported by the infinite love and compassion of the universe and all …
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Do I deserve Self Care?
Do you feel supported in your self care practice? I didn’t. For a long time I didn’t feel supported by my family or even myself. I felt guilty taking time for myself and for spending money on self care. I would find myself coming up with the craziest rationals as to why my needs were necessary. What are needs anyway? I like to define needs as the impulses of life or our life force energy. They are not good or bad, there is no should or shouldn’t. How do we get in touch with them? By …
Self Care Goals
What if the self care goal itself, is the obstacle to achieving it? We all know that self care should be a priority and when we make the time we realize the benefits but often we spend more time setting goals, beginning new programs and then allowing them to fall away. How many times have we told ourselves, I will lose weight by this date, to later find ourselves filling up on cake (nothing wrong with cake!) ? Or making a commitment to practice yoga and binge watching tv …
Life As Practice
I am willing to enjoy, my life as practice. -Ani Trime Lhamo May is a kind of New Year’s for me. I mark this time of year when my meditation practice became regular 3 years ago. It is not about tracking time in the sense of achievement; it is more about celebrating finding a practice that stuck and works. I would not be starting my day three years later meditating if it didn’t …
Meditation What Is It?
Meditation What Is It? With the flood of COVID-19 articles online describing how we are all coping with this difficult time, I came across a piece written by a mother of many children in which she describes how challenging this time has been for her. She explains how she is just barely managing to hold it all together while trying to take care of herself and family. She concludes that she will just suck it up and keep going. After reading this well written descriptive horror tale, I felt …