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Not Sure I’m Ready for This
I can’t get it out of my head as I launch this: “What comes up, must come down”. This isn’t my first blog, but I took a social media marketing class last winter, and of course, they recommended daily posts. It was hard to ignore the fact that at that time my last blog entry […]
Does Light Affect Our Mood?
The short answer is that there is strong evidence that light affects mood and energy for people who have seasonal depression diagnosed as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), it may help conventional depression, and probably gives a boost to anyone feeling the blues especially during the winter. The best thing to do is to get […]
Welcome to the Exploring Mindfulness Series
Announcing Exploring Mindfulness, a blog series for starting, re-starting, or maintaining the practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness can be described simply as seeing clearly in the here and now. I chose Pema Chödrön’s book When Things Fall Apart as our guide because, through this book, she is a calm and reassuring voice in helping us to […]
Leaning Into the Sharp Points
This is the first of 12 posts in the Exploring Mindfulness series, a reflection on the book When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön. This post addresses the book’s introduction through chapter two. (5 min read) To find out more about the series or to participate in the discussion, go to Welcome to the Exploring Mindfulness […]
Facing Our Pain
This is the second of twelve posts in the Exploring Mindfulness blog series, a reflection on the book When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön. This post addresses chapter three through five. (4 min read) In the introduction Pema Chödrön identifies maitri as the main underlying thread of the seven years of her talks that […]