Webinar: Deepening Learning from Meditation
In this webinar, I shared mindfulness practices for greater habit success and I answered some awesome questions. I’ve broken this webinar recording into two parts: Part I – My Talk: Mindfulness Practices for Greater Habit Success (See notes) Part II – Questions & Answers: I answered questions on maintaining focus during meditation, keeping mindfulness working in […]
The Drop Deeper into Mindfulness Challenge
I invite you to step into the New Year with intentionality and mindfulness. By focusing on mindfulness at the beginning of the year, we are laying down a foundation for all other changes we make this year. Mindfulness helps us change all other habits: procrastination & productivity, exercise, healthy eating, relationships, writing & creating, and […]
Video Lesson: Working With Our Emotions, Part II
In the last lesson, I talked about how to go into emotions that come up, into the physical sensation of them. This is a really important practice to do in your meditation, anytime emotions arise … as well as after meditation, throughout your day. If you avoid working with the emotion, avoid really allowing yourself to feel its energy … it doesn’t just go away. It starts to control you.
Video Lesson: Opening Up to Everything
In this lesson, we explore opening ourselves up to everything that arises in meditation (and outside of meditation) — the ever-changing nature of things, and accepting the moment as it is, without judging it as good or bad.
Video Lesson: Working With Our Emotions
Thoughts are one thing, but when emotions come up, they can feel much more difficult — we get caught up in them and don’t know how to get out. In this lesson, we’ll talk about how to work with these difficult phenomena.
Video Lesson: Working With Our Thoughts
In this lesson, I talk about all the thoughts that come up for us in mediation, and how to work with them.
Video Lesson: Attachments to Desires & Fixed Beliefs
In this lesson, we talk about how we get attached to desires and fixed beliefs, and what kinds of consequences that can have. And then we look at how to work with those attachments.
Video Lesson: Our Stories
Throughout the day, we tell ourselves stories … about ourselves, others, our situation, what’s going on. In this lesson, we’ll examine how to become more aware of these stories, and why they aren’t so useful.