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COMPASSION IMAGINATION: You remake the world when you imagine it compassionate
A number of years ago, I was walking down the street in Manhattan when I happened to pass a pricey new restaurant. My ego started elbowing me in the ribs, complaining about how my downtown...
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CROWN OF PETALS: Navigating life with mindfulness, compassion, and gratitude
What would our lives be like if we wore a crown of petals instead of a crown of thorns? What would it feel like to believe that we matter, that our contributions to the workforce, our home lives, and...
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MINDFUL FROM 9-5: Four ways to work mindfully
As members of the working world, you know firsthand that every job comes with its share of stress, but it’s how you handle the stress that makes the difference between a bad day turned good and a day...
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OBSERVATION AND CURIOSITY: Mindful travel through the eyes of a child
Is there such as thing as mindful traveling with children? I didn’t think it was possible until my recent travel experience with my family. Travelling internationally can often be daunting, tiring and...
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BARELY THERE: Living naturally without clothes
My family and my very close friends well know my decades-long relationship to clothes—I am not a comfortable carrier of textiles. The moment my feet enter my door, the clothes disappear. I am...
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SAUDADE: Existential sadness
A pastime that gives me great pleasure, and whiles away many delightful hours, is researching and learning foreign words and phrases for which there’s no direct English translation. I call them...
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PREFERENCES: The difference between our being happy or unhappy
Every day, in each moment, the universe is giving us something. The difference between our being happy or unhappy is that we have preferences. The world offers pain and pleasure, joy and sadness. We...
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FIND JOY AT WORK: Using mindfulness practice to find ease and equanimity in...
“We can work in such a way that we realize we have a lot of choices in what we do and how we do it. We can work in such a way that we find opportunities for joy, and we don’t get stuck in the habit of...
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THE BIRD’S SONG: Learn from birds how to live in the now
Night has slowly come to an end and I can hear the call of a bird slowly beckoning to other fellow birds that daylight is approaching. The sound gets louder and louder and becomes a medley of some...
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7 Problems We Can Tackle With Mindfulness Training
Mindfulness is the practice and experience of being fully in the moment, whether that moment contains excitement, pain, boredom, mild interest or curiosity. It’s the act of paying attention, and...
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Cultural Appropriation or Emulation: Does it matter?
My 19-year-old Eagle (Eastern Washington University Eagle) and I speak most days about her training, school, roommates and life in the Northwest, over 1,000 miles from home. Her pre-season soccer...
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Rediscovering How to Be a Tourist in Your Own Life
I think something as simple as a lack of a tea bag may have altered the course of my life. I must admit to this truth, so humbly delivered to me, because it feels as if a cosmic episode of falling...
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INNER SIMPLICITY: Clearing clutter is a temporary fix, what matters most is...
The idea of simplifying pulls at me all the time lately. I’m tempted to clear my schedule and devote the remainder of the week to dealing with the disorder all at once. I’ve been down that path too...
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MINDFULNESS AND THE MEDIA: 10 strategies for being a conscious media consumer
The time you spend on your digital devices watching TV and movies or browsing the Internet can really enrich your life—or not! You can become hypnotized by media and take on beliefs that aren’t true...
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RELATIONSHIP OF AGING: 8 tips for a better parent / child relationship as...
Watching parents age is tough. Watching your divorced and still single parents age is heartbreaking. Not once did it ever cross my mind when I was a child what it would be like for Mom and Dad as they...
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MINDFULLY AWARE: It is time to pay more attention
It’s time for a pause in my teaching, which means that most of the students and I leave the lecture hall for fresh air, coffee or cigarettes. I go to the canteen and buy a coffee. Then I wait outside...
View ArticleCHASING THE DREAM: Living for the future prevents appreciating the present
We are inundated with messages of chasing and living the dream. The exhilarating life overseas, finding our purpose or the perfect partner. But this state of mind keeps us running toward an elusive...
View ArticleHOW TO LOVE MINDFULLY: Just ask a dog!
The term “mindfulness” can seem confusing. Isn’t the point of meditation to get out of one’s mind? To move past the endless chatter of daytime […]
View ArticleMINDFUL CONVERSATIONS: Finding space for a mindful conversation in a...
We live in a world that, in part thanks to technology, is slowly losing the ability for having conversations that matter and therefore changing how we are in relationships with ourselves, with others,...
View ArticleDAYENU: Mindfully and critically examining the mindless status quo
The inheritances we carry Just like any mother, I didn’t want to make any mistakes—minor or crippling. So when it came down to the big […]
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