“Humans are wired to avoid discomfort. Social science calls it threat rigidity: when safety feels threatened, empathy contracts, moral concern narrows, and hierarchy feels stabilizing. Complexity becomes intolerable, and disconnection is rewarded. This is why numbness spreads so easily. Systems survive by keeping people disengaged, indifferent, and dissociated. Your choice to stay present interrupts that
“I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional break. Sometimes I meditate because my heart is breaking. Sometimes I meditate so that my heart will break. I meditate because I’m composed of 100 trillion cells, and from time to
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don’t sing all the time The world is a beautiful place to
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“It all boils down to this: That all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. Before you finish eating breakfast in
Pose of The Week: The Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin is the perfection of compassion, mercy and kindness and is often shown sitting in the “Posture of Royal Ease.” This posture is more of a “bhava” than asana and brings about an immediate state of grace, dignity and confidence. While there are many different spellings for
“Que sera, sera, whatever will be will be, the future’s not ours to see, Que sera, sera…” I am confident that I have done all that I can around this election to help create positive change. I am also certain that being attached to those efforts and stressing about their impact serves nothing and no
Do we watch the Presidential debates or not? We have a choice, over and over again. Do we pick things that are toxic to eat, breath, see, or do we pick those things moment by moment which enables us to thrive and be proactive? Self-Care also means watching what we give our attention to and
Notes from the “30 Day Mindfulness Challenge” “The only spiritual life you need is not to react. To be calm [or present, in the moment, mindful…] is the greatest asset in the world. It’s the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have. If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every
I came “out” in my early twenties but only because I didn’t know what to call it as a kid. My father didn’t speak to me for a year and my mother suggested that I do therapy. I explained to her that doing therapy is what enabled me to come “out”… When I began seriously