There is a park near my office, which I used to walk through on my way to another office in a different life. The park is not very large - no more than a small city block - and my path stretched from the northeast corner to the southwest corner. It took me past a …
I woke up early this morning, thoughts already racing. Yesterday felt chaotic to me. In the middle of a tense meeting that I was leading, my phone – which I had forgotten to silence – starting pinging with notifications. My elderly mother was on the way to the emergency room in an ambulance. There was …
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. …
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 …
When I opened my meditation app this morning, I was greeted by a new icon in the upper right corner: a butterfly with a red dot. Assuming, correctly, that this was a notification of some kind, I tapped it and discovered that my meditation app is rebranding itself and redesigning itself, with new features. New …
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