Feel Good Stuff & Health & Meditation admin | 07 Mar 2010
I have a short but sweet flowing water meditation for you this week. Don’t overlook trying this one because it’s so simple.
My experience in life is that simple usually turns out much better than complicated.
Anyway, we start with this wonderfully wise Chinese proverb…
Flowing water never goes bad.
Now, let’s put the proverb to use.
Here’s what you [...]
Feel Good Stuff & Meditation admin | 16 Feb 2010
For this week’s meditation, we turn to a wonderful Zen saying…
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Meditate on this observation during the coming week whenever something feels wrong in your life.
Here’s how to do it.
When something seems awry, breathe deeply, pause for a second, and start centering your focus.
Repeat three times or until you’re [...]
Meditation admin | 23 Sep 2009
For this week’s meditation we turn to a classic Taoist saying…
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Would you like to experience what it’s like when the universe surrenders?
You would?
Great. Here’s how to have that experience…
Take at least four long, deep breaths until you’ve slowed down and centered yourself.
Now focus entirely on [...]
Meditation admin | 20 Aug 2009
For today’s meditation, let’s turn to American novelist and short story writer, Willa Cather, who tells us how to be happy…
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
You are already complete and great. Right now. In this very moment.
But you most likely don’t realize your completeness and greatness because your constant mind [...]
Meditation admin | 27 Jul 2009
For this week’’s meditation, we visit my wise friend Confucius, who so correctly observed…
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
This week, focus on letting go of all those instances when you were wronged in life by somebody or something.
Here’s a simple way to let go…
Take three or four long, slow, deep [...]
Meditation admin | 13 Jul 2009
For this week’s meditation, we turn to one of the classic Zen masters, Huang Po, who tells us…
Q: What is the Way and how must it be followed?
A: What sort of “thing” do you suppose the Way to be, that you should wish to “follow” it?
Old Huang, he’s great, isn’t he?
Take a deep breath. Hold [...]
Meditation admin | 05 Jul 2009
For this week’’s meditation, we turn to American Zen master Alan Watts, who wrote…
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Oh, so true.
Join me in the present moment, won’t you?
Take a long, slow deep breath, [...]
Meditation & Music admin | 24 Jun 2009
For this week’’s meditation, we turn to the late, great jazz musician, Charlie Parker, who wrote…
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.
Your life is an on-going symphony of music, but I bet you’ve rarely slowed down and been still enough to realize [...]
Meditation & Pets admin | 31 May 2009
For this week’s meditation, we turn to an old Chinese proverb…
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come.
A songbird of peace will come to you right now.
Here’s how to make it happen…
Take a deep breath. Hold for a second. Exhale slowly and start to focus inwardly. Repeat two or three [...]