“When each moment of our lives is an opportunity to practice [mindfulness], work is not some tedious burden that saps our energy and dictates our lives. Instead, work is yet another opportunity to be mindful.” -David Gelles, Mindful Work Mindfulness at work. I love the playfulness of this phrase. I have seen mindfulness at work… Continue reading Mindfulness at Work
I have an addictive personality – I can turn just about anything into too much of a good thing. I think meditation is about the only thing I’ve found that I can obsess about and it doesn’t do me harm somehow. I have a lifelong addiction to TV. I’m kind of strung out on the… Continue reading The Addiction that Pays YOU
I’ve bragged a few times in this blog about how good the food is on keto. Every diet involves sacrifices. I had to decide what I was okay living without, what was available to me instead, and what I got in return for those sacrifices. When you can eat a crab and bacon omlet smothered… Continue reading Kicking Carbs with Keto
When I sit down to meditate, I am very often blown away by how much my body is doing for me without me ever noticing it. All of the breathing, and heart beating, and consciousness – there’s a lot going on, without even thinking about neurons firing, and food digesting, and cells replicating – bodies… Continue reading Aliveness Meditation
We are all connected. This is not a new observation. But what connects us is what we all have in common, the plants, the animals, each and every individual on earth: Unique in the known universe, we have life. Each and every one of us is experiencing the unlikely confluence of events that is the… Continue reading Sharing Our Aliveness
See, I thought I was so clever borrowing this concept from natural history to describe the human condition, and just last month came across a delightful Meditative Story, “Writing the Main Character” by Franklin Leonard, using “punctuated equilibrium” in exactly the same way. Great minds, I guess. Still, I thought I was so clever. To… Continue reading Punctuated Equilibrium
Our attention is all we have. You’ve maybe heard, “Time is all we have.” That’s not exactly right. I’ve spent plenty of time doing something and paid zero actual attention to it – watching TV, petting the cat, spending time with family – and had it pass by without me truly noticing it. It’s right… Continue reading Time and Attention
