Taming the Monkey Mind: Plugging in the Monkey
So, I know the whole idea of meditation is to unplug. To turn off the phone and put away the computer. I get it. I’m just not very good at […]
Category Archives: Meditation, Mindfulness, and Yoga
Radical Gratitude
For Valentine’s Day, I decided to send Brock a daily email with a message of how I love and appreciate him. It’s amazing how much starting my day that way […]
Mental Rehearsal vs. Expectations
What is the difference between mental rehearsal of an event and creating expectations for the event? There has been quite a bit of research and discourse in the last few […]
Releasing a Dream
I was 11 when I began stalking Adam. Growing up, I spent a lot of time at friend’s houses. One friend had a younger brother who played Little League […]
Taming the Monkey Mind: My Monkey’s Alive
Do you ever have one of those days where you just feel a little more alive than usual? Everything just seems a little bit clearer. The breath a little lighter? […]
Pardon Me, Ego. I Need to Get Through.
Ego: the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought. (from […]
Transforming Fear
Opening the Journal
Deep breath. In many ways, this will be my most personal post yet. These are the thoughts, the words, that came in the first few weeks uncensored by the keyboard […]
Learning to Breathe
I’ve never been very good at breathing. My childhood was spent with perpetual croup, the seal-barking cough echoing through the house at all hours. Eventually, I was diagnosed with asthma, […]
I Can’t Right Now
There is a particular yoga sequence (crescent lunge into a bird of paradise) that used to vex me. I simply couldn’t get my body to twist and open to accomplish […]
