This morning, as I sat meditating, the teacher I was listening to suggested that if we found ourselves getting caught up in the stories in our head, we could label it “thinking” and let it go. Then she suggested that we could alternately say to ourselves, “This is a thought.” Suddenly my mind opened up. …
Month: December 2021
On Finding Joy Outside Work
I read an article the other day in The Atlantic by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen about How to Care Less about Work, an except from their new book, Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home. I read the article with a deep resonance and a sense of …
The Perfect Tree
How much effort to do you put into selecting your Christmas tree? For several years, a friend has shared a story of her annual tradition of driving up into the mountains near her town, to select her tree; a day of hot chocolate and the smell of pine; of crisp days, shortened by daylight savings, …
Worn Pathway
Do you find it hard to shut off your mind at, say, 3 a.m.? This morning, when I sat down to meditate, I told myself that I was just practicing bringing my mind back to my breath; that it was okay if it wandered because that provided the opportunity to practice recognizing that it was …