“You change your relationship to the pain by opening up to it and paying attention to it. You ‘put out the welcome mat.’ Not because you’re masochistic, but because the pain is there. So you need to understand the nature of the experience and the possibilities for, as the doctors might put it, ’learning to live with [...]
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Put Out Your Welcome Mat
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged mindfulness, health, Buddhism, medicine, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness-based stress reduction, Buddhist on February 23, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Find some inner peace with quiet meditation
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged meditation, health, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen, Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, mindful eating, Kinhin on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Here is a 5-Minute meditation for you to check out. I love the idea of short meditation practices. They are so practical for today’s life. Taking time throughout the day 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, another 5 before after dinner or before bedtime is better than no time at all. We all have [...]
Empowered Grieving
Posted in BlogTalkRadio, End-of-Life, tagged grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, mental health, Support Groups on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
How Can You Sit There and Complain? It’s your first day back whether that’s days or weeks. You are nervous about going back to work. You might be experiencing a multitude of feelings and sensations and wonder how they could be happening all at once. You can’t remember what you just read. You forget your [...]
Retreat at Home
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged breathing, Buddhism, chanting, compassion, healing, health, inspiration, meditation, Mettā, mindful, mindfulness, pema chodron, relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Retreats on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
http://shop.shambhala.com/living-beautifully Another great way to spend a weekend in March. . . cost of access for the retreat $85.00, well worth a full weekend’s worth of teachings from Ani Pema. This retreat took place in October 2011 at the Omega Institute in NY. What a wonderful way to experience the teachings and the sangha at [...]
Presence and Support
Posted in End-of-Life, tagged death, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, mental health on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In Kubler-Ross’ book On Death and Dying, she wrote, that when someone dies at home, there is the “comfort of shared responsibility and shared mourning. It prepares them gradually and helps them view death as part of life, an experience which may help them grow and mature”. I’m not a big fan of what we [...]
View: 15-Minute Meditation
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged breathing, Buddhism, compassion, coping, health, Jon Kabat-Zinn, meditation, Mettā, mindful, pema chodron, PlumVillage, Ram Dass, relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Sharon Salzberg, spirituality, Tara Brach, Thich Nhat Hanh, Upaya Institute and Zen Center, Zen on February 18, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Enjoy this 15-minute meditation that I found on Youtube. I went searching for this because I have been spending a lot of time on the computer lately, doing various things from the blog, to school work, to my ”employment” work. I’ve been finding that I am multitasking all over the place. One of these days, I [...]
Breathing: Physical Reactions to Feelings
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged breathing, healing, health, inspiration, meditation, mindful, mindfulness, pain, peace, relationships, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
When you feel…. You will often: Inspired or Pleasantly Surprised… Gasp, inhaling deeply & suddenly Disappointed, Exasperated… Huff, exhale suddenly or sharply Anxious, Fearful… Stop, hold your breath Weary, Relieved… Exhale long, deep sigh Stressed, Angry… Breathe rapidly & shallowly Hopeful, Joyful, Content… Breathe evenly & deeply Check back to check out this weekend’s post [...]
Meeting an Impasse
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged Alternative, breathing, Buddhism, end-of-life, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, meditation, relationships, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Gentle Meditation Although we are not often taught this, the most skillful way through an impasse in meditation is to become aware of it and of what holds it together and keeps it running. To do this, you need to keep doing the meditation instructions that have gotten you to this point, but instead of [...]
Caring for your achy heart
Posted in Grief Theories, tagged American Heart Association, Circulation (journal), end-of-life, family, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, grieving, healing, health, hospice, inspiration, relationships, spirituality on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
According to Advancements in Bereavement, “Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, reports that research has found your risk of a heart attack is 21 times greater than normal in the day following the death of a loved one and decreases steadily during the first month.” Some say we die of a broken heart. [...]
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