Before anyone can choose to act differently, they must accept the world on its terms and then consider the options. Acceptance is an acknowledgement of what is. That doesn’t mean being passively resigned to feeling hopeless. Acceptance is a very positive step toward taking charge of one’s life and responsibilities.Continue Reading
Acceptance is the willingness to be open-minded, being free and flexible without having rigidly fixed pre-conditions. It is the opposite of being reluctant to look at something in a new way. Put another way, not having acceptance can cause you to find fault with literally everything around you – includingContinue Reading
Most people are not living in the here and now. They may be sitting at their desk, working in a shop, or doing their laundry, but chances are their minds are somewhere else. They may be thinking about weekend plans, a conversation they had yesterday, or what to eat forContinue Reading
Mindfulness Meditation has been practiced by Buddhists and others throughout most of the world for twenty-five hundred years, but only recently in the western world and only in the United States since the 1960s. Mindfulness is more than meditation however. Mindfulness Meditation transforms a person’s awareness into focusing on theContinue Reading
One of the beautiful aspects of Mindfulness Meditation is that it can be done anywhere whenever you have a few uninterrupted minutes. The White Room Meditation is a five-minute exercise of watching your thoughts come and go. A simple practice of observing your mind at work. The Room Imagine youContinue Reading
Beginning at a very early age, our ability to find meaning, purpose, happiness and love in our lives is made difficult by the introduction of our “ideal self,” as opposed to our authentic “real self,” the self we were born with. Demands of Society This ideal self, as proposed byContinue Reading
Journaling is an excellent and extremely personal way of expressing your emotions, or just to get things off your chest. If at all possible, start your day by spending the first twenty minutes practicing mindful breathing, contemplative meditation and journaling. Starting with the first ten minutes of your day onContinue Reading
Many people eat mindlessly, without thinking about what they’re doing. When eating becomes automatic you barely even taste the food, or know how much you’re consuming. As a result, people eat too much of all the wrong foods. If you are stressed or depressed it gets worse, leading to aContinue Reading
Unlike anger, which we are born with, forgiveness must be learned. Forgiveness is a process that isn’t easy for everyone. We first learn forgiveness from observing our parents and how they showed it towards each other. Not So Easy Even though we learn to forgive, making the decision to forgiveContinue Reading
Siddhartha Guatama, the Buddha, taught in India over 2,500 years ago that suffering is caused by desire, and can be alleviated by releasing that desire. The same could be said of anger. When a person is angry, sulking, steaming or otherwise filled with negative emotions and ill will or aversionContinue Reading