The older I get, the more I appreciate the quiet Beatle, George Harrison. I just came across this song which was published posthumously and I thought I’d share it with you;
Open heart, open mind…
I really enjoyed this talk from Tara Brach‘s meditation series featuring Tsoknyi Rinpoche; perhaps you will as well…
In case you are wondering, I am not a Buddhist — I am a recovering Catholic if you must know! It’s just that lately, the Uni-verse has been using people who are Buddhist to teach me. Keeping an open mind to the wisdom of their message has helped me to open my heart…
Waking Up from the Trance of Unworthiness: Part Two
I am so glad that Barb Markway does such a great job of sharing these transcriptions. It just so happens this one is about my favorite speaker and author, Tara Brach. Thank you, Barb…
I am loving this Sounds True audio/video series on self-acceptance. For those who learn better by reading, here is part two of a rough transcript of the session with Tara Brach, Ph.D. (I watched on one computer, paused it as I went, and dictated into my phone.) I am breaking it into two posts, as it got a little long. You can still listen to this interview online here. And if you didn’t read part one, you can do so here.
Tara’s first book Radical Acceptance helped me so much on a personal level, and I frequently recommended it to my clients over the years. Her newest book is called True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart. I have already read it once, and I highly recommend it.
In this episode, Tami Simon speaks with Tara Brach, PhD, clinical psychologist and founder of the…
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Which wolf will you feed?
For most of my life, I have been a bitter, resentful, angry person. The story that I tell myself is that I came by it honestly. I’m a classic case of a person who suffered early childhood trauma around abandonment and rejection issues and much of my life has been spent in trying to get the people in my life now to make up for the things done by the people in my past. When this plan didn’t work [for reasons that are obvious to me now] I reacted with resentment and anger; first toward myself and then toward others… Continue reading “Which wolf will you feed?”
Somebody Wants What You Have
Kate Northrup writes:
Right now, someone in the world envies you. They admire your business. They covet your wardrobe. They lust after your husband. To someone, somewhere, you look like you have it all. Your website makes their mouth water. Your pictures on Facebook make them yearn for adventure in their life. Seeing you makes them crave more in their own life.
Continue reading “Somebody Wants What You Have”
Explain Your Anger…
See on Scoop.it – Living Business
Explain your anger, don’t express it, and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.
See on www.livelifehappy.com
Put your past behind you…
The other day, I saw a Model T in my rearview mirror. I thought it was a good reminder to put the past behind…
All you need is already within you
Tara Brach quotes:
“All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing — glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
via Goodreads | Quote by Nisargadatta Maharaj: All you need is already within you, only you mu….
Thanks, Barb, for the transcription. When @tarabrach talks I stop and listen deeply…
I am loving this Sounds True audio/video series on self-acceptance. For those who learn better by reading, here is rough transcript of the session with Tara Brach, Ph.D. I watched on one computer, paused it as I went, and dictated into my phone. I am breaking it into two posts, as it got a little long. You can still listen to this interview online here.
Tara’s first book Radical Acceptance helped me so much on a personal level, and I frequently recommended it to my clients over the years. Her newest book is called True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart. I have already read it once, and I highly recommend it.
In this episode, Tami Simon speaks with Tara Brach, PhD, clinical psychologist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. Tara has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975 and has led Buddhist…
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TEDTalks…
Saw this on ‘Sunday Secrets’… :-D
My family and I are crazy about TEDTalks; where else can you get a 13 year old to sit down and watch a scientist talk about brilliant stuff for 15 minutes?!
Thanking a Monkey
Kaveri Patel writes:
There’s a monkey in my mind
swinging on a trapeze,
reaching back to the past
or leaning into the future,
never standing still.
Sometimes I want to kill
that monkey, shoot it square
between the eyes so I won’t
have to think anymore
or feel the pain of worry.
But today I thanked her
and she jumped down
straight into my lap,
trapeze still swinging
as we sat still.
via Kaveri Patel – Buddhist Poetry Review.
On these days when our world slows down just a little bit, think about thanking YOUR monkeys…
Today I Am Going To Let My Burdens Go
See on Scoop.it – Wholeheartedness
Today I am going to let my burdens go. I am going to face this day and have faith that everything will get better.
Todd Lohenry‘s insight:
The best way I have found recently is to use Tara Brach’s RAIN tool to practice mindful acceptance…
See on www.livelifehappy.com
Working With Difficulties
Tara Brach writes:
About twelve years ago, a number of Buddhist teachers began to share a new mindfulness tool that offers in-the-trenches support for working with intense and difficult emotions. Called RAIN (an acronym for the four steps of the process), it can be accessed in almost any place or situation. It directs our attention in a clear, systematic way that cuts through confusion and stress. The steps give us somewhere to turn in a painful moment, and as we call on them more regularly, they strengthen our capacity to come home to our deepest truth. Like the clear sky and clean air after a cooling rain, this mindfulness practice brings a new openness and calm to our daily lives.
There Is Nothing Missing…
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Beautiful soul Jennifer Pastiloff shares:
I feel like I’m about to write copy for an antidepressant commercial. Are you depressed? Trouble sleeping? Find you can’t focus? Find you’re feeling down when you have no real reason to, and, in fact, anyone would think you’re insane for admitting it?
I’ve been struggling lately. And it’s a little overwhelming.
That’s what I have done. Or what I want to do. Try to put down some of my load: in a parking lot, in a blog post. Anywhere, really.
I suffer from depression. Or I have suffered. Which is it? Past tense? Present?
Let me be frank: I’m slipping a little lately. So is it present tense? Do I acknowledge it, then shift my thoughts, creating new mantras, such as, “I am happy! I am free of depression!” or do I sit quietly on this airplane and contemplate it?
What does that even mean — depressed? Is it something I’ve been told (yes!) or something I know deep in the labyrinth of my body, in my DNA (also yes)?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a certain sadness I could never explain to anyone: a dead part inside of me that made me pretend I was sick and stay home from school (even in kindergarten) so I could eat cream cheese and olive sandwiches and watch TV with my mom. During college, I would leave NYU during the weekends to go home to Cherry Hill, NJ, an hour and a half ride on the Peter Pan Bus, so I could be at home, safe from the slick world of New York City and from feeling anything except hunger. Perhaps that’s how I fell in love with anorexia; it allowed me to stop feeling such nothingness. I replaced nothingness with anxiety and hunger, but I no longer felt depressed.
The point is, my life is pretty great. I’m happily married. I’m successful. I’m healthy. So, what is it? What is this demon?
Go to the source of this quote: There Is Nothing Missing: The Epiphany That Helps Me Cope With Depression
I’ve been learning a lot about ‘nothing’ along these lines lately as in ‘nothing is wrong with me anymore‘ and now ‘there is nothing missing’; both good mindful meditations…
You Are What You Focus On: The Strength of An Unstoppable Mindset
The FinerMinds teams shares this:
“It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do about it.” – W Mitchell
Not many people have been as unfortunate as W Mitchell – or so it would seem.
He’s been involved in two separate serious accidents – one of which left him with burns covering most of his body, and the other that left him wheelchair-bound for life.
As a result of such disabilities, many would give up. But because of his firm belief that success is not dictated by what life deals to you, but by what you do with the challenges you’re dealt, W Mitchell re-trained himself to fly a plane, become a famous international speaker and an environmental lobbyist.
In this 4-minute video, he reinforces the fact that we become what we focus on, and how once he started focusing on how powerful and innovative he was, he not only changed his life – but the life of those around him.
Go to the source of this quote: You Are What You Focus On: The Strength of An Unstoppable Mindset
The Power of Awareness: The Quickest Technique to Get You Centered
Anil Gupta shares an easy technique that acts as a mini awareness alarm clock to help ensure that we regularly check in on our thoughts to keep us centered and aware…
Here is his previous thought on clarity…
Be Yourself: No More, No Less
Michael Woolson writes:
Be yourself. It’s a statement that people often dismiss as something doting mothers say, but it is actually a very poignant piece of advice.
For instance, have you ever seen a guy who’s trying to be more than what he is? He’s fifty-five, driving a sports car, wearing designer clothing that someone half his age would wear, trying to pick up twenty year olds, and showing off his face lift or hair plugs. It’s like he’s saying, “I’m not old, bald, or okay-looking. I’m a hot, rich, thick-haired, young stallion.” The truth is that he’s not fooling anyone. Wouldn’t your opinion of him be more favorable if he accepted his real age and appearance? This is an extreme example, but almost everyone does it on some level. If you’re an okay-looking person, be an okay-looking person. I know, how dare I say something like that. But the truth is that we are only beautiful when we stand firmly in what we truly are. Continue reading “Be Yourself: No More, No Less”
One Of The Most Freeing Things
…and it doesn’t say anything about you or the other person, either!
Live a Big Life: Shift from “Why Me?” to “Why?”
Alexandra Hope Flood writes:
“The journey is the reward.” ~Chinese Proverb
We’ve probably all heard this famous piece of wisdom at one time or another.
I’ll be honest, there were a few years where I just plain blew it off.
Like, “Yeah, yeah, journey, reward, I got it. Cool. Now, when’s my ship coming in?”
Not that I was greedy. Just impatient to arrive at a place called Made It. It seemed that other people were already there and I was eager to join them.
I had seen the brochure for Made It and I knew then and there, it was my kind of place.
The trick about getting to Made It is that there wasn’t a singular map. You’re supposed to make your own.
Go to the source of this quote: Live a Big Life: Shift from “Why Me?” to “Why?” | Tiny Buddha
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The Mirror of the Mind: How to Become the Creator of Your Reality
The FinerMinds team shares this:
The phenomenon of this reality “loop” means the more self-aware we become, the more we’re able to break free from baseline reality (which is governed by the ego) and enter a new reality that is exponentially fulfilling, and awakened.
via The Mirror of the Mind: How to Become the Creator of Your Reality.
Meditation for the Haters, Bullies, and Spirit Crushers in Your Life
Bex Borucki writes:
What if all the people who ever said anything mean or hateful or ugly about you could be completely silenced with just a thought? What if their words held no weight? No influence? What if no one could make you feel anything that you didn’t want to? Let’s imagine for a moment that everything I just asked could come true right now. RIGHT NOW. How would you act? How would you feel about yourself? What would be different in your life? What would be different about this day? This moment? Imagine with me for the next four minutes… Continue reading “Meditation for the Haters, Bullies, and Spirit Crushers in Your Life”
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