I’ve posted some guided meditations. They are full of…ideas. Mindfulness as it’s been presented to me really isn’t about ideas so much as experiencing the mind when you’re trying to not have ideas. Based on my limited research, there are a lot of flavors of meditation and mindfulness, so I’ll try not to get too… Continue reading Is This Mindfulness?
In which I indulge in shameless autobiography in an effort to suggest to those whose suffering comes from inside themselves that I used to suffer a lot, and now suffer less. I always thought meditation sounded dumb. Like, really dumb. How on earth could sitting and focusing on your breathing do effing anything? I had… Continue reading Shameless Autobiography Part III: Meditation is Dumb
Long before anybody knew the mechanisms, we knew that breathing sustained life. When you do contemplate what happens with every breath, 20,000 times a day, the flawless ballet of it is astonishing. It all happens beneath our awareness, a background script. When we turn attention to what is actually happening when we simply breathe, the… Continue reading Rejoice! Fresh Oxygen! Meditation
In which I indulge in shameless autobiography in an effort to suggest to those whose suffering comes from inside themselves that I used to suffer a lot, and now suffer less. I don’t particularly want these writings to be a confessional about me. But I do think there are some elements of my personal history… Continue reading Shameless Autobiography Part I: Is It a Depression If There’s No Up?
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. -Mary Oliver On the opening page of the story of my life, I am dead. I drank myself to death. I ate myself to death. I died a million deaths before I died, in a hostile world that hated me as much as… Continue reading Theories of Change
