Image credit: Photo by Baloulumix on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was cleaning up outside earlier today, an activity I'm finding much more soothing than cleaning up inside the house, because it turns out that Nature is less destructive than my family, so I get to enjoy the fruits of my labor a little [...]
Posts under ‘meditation’
My Sabbath Experiment
Image credit: Photo by adwriter on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this month, I decided I was going to set aside one day each week for spirituality and health, a sort of personal Sabbath. I picked a day of the week and made some rules for myself and set about my spiritual experiment. This [...]
Sabbath
Image credit: Photo by Vanessa Pike-Russell on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Spiritual inspiration can come from the oddest bits of serendipity. I was at a talk a few months ago by a Zen Buddhist who talked about making each moment sacred, about how we could light incense before doing the dishes and make the [...]
Sharing the Silence
Image credit: Art by zedzap on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Like many people, I walked into my first 12 Step meeting never expecting to wind up there, with no clue what to expect other than what Hollywood had taught me (which I soon learned was nothing accurate). The meetings I first started attending were [...]
I Only Have Five Minutes
Image credit: Art by badboy69 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Today, I ran into a situation that would have caused me enormous frustration in the past. I'd finished my work around the house, I'd eaten my lunch, I'd even written a blog post about how I couldn't write a blog post and I was [...]
Caring for Myself
Image credit: Photo by hyperbolic pants explosion on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There's a picture of me somewhere, when my son was a few months old, sitting at the computer and uploading pictures of him to share. I got lots of advice to sleep when the baby slept. I was told by plenty of [...]
Meditation
Image credit: Art by alicepopkorn on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Meditation has been a great help to me in recent years, helping me calm and center myself. For the last several months, I have been sitting with a group once a week and meditating for forty-five minutes. I have been meditating regularly for shorter [...]
What Are You Thinking?
Image credit: Photo by gutter on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was recently reading a book on Buddhism and the Twelve Steps that describes a meditation exercise in which you label your thoughts: "desire," "aversion," "thinking." The author mentioned one woman who was surprised at how much of her thinking centered on desire: I [...]
Hobbling Toward Humility
Image credit: Photo by [desta] on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I was a child, my mother used to drag me off to church every Sunday. Oh, how I hated it, and I told her so. "I hated going to church when I was little too," she told me, "But then, when I was [...]
My Word for 2009
Image of the Eagle Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope At the end of last year, I decided I was done with New Year's resolutions. Instead, I picked an intention word for the year: someplace for me to set my focus. My word for 2008 was Happy. And I have to say, that worked out [...]
