“Welcome to your practice” is a phrase I first heard my meditation teacher use to begin a session and is the same one I often use as well. One reason I like to begin this way is to signal that we are crossing what I see as a sacred threshold between living our lives as [...]
The theme of the month in my online Open Heart Project community, or “sangha,” is “Generosity,” and so, lately I’ve been working with the idea of generosity and how it relates to practicing meditation. In reading up on the subject, I fully discovered for the first time the concept of “non-fear” and how the gift [...]
My personal path to developing a stable meditation practice has been anything but consistent. And at the same time, over the past year since I've been practicing regularly according to the method I learned to teach, I have had the good fortune to experience consistently increasing benefits for myself, ones which have also had [...]
My answer to the question “Why meditate?” is borrowed from Rick Hanson, Ph.D.’s book Buddha’s Brain, and is grounded in his self-caring idea of “being on our own side”: You are a human being like any other – and just as deserving of happiness, love and wisdom. Nurturing your own development isn’t selfish. It’s [...]