Great read and meditation inspiration: “Neuroscience of Meditation: How To Make Your Mind Awesome” “A good quick way to see it from a neuroscience perspective is as “attention training.” (You know, attention. That thing none of us has anymore.)”
Yearly Archives: 2016
Reading: Stumblers
“… in a culture that consistently mistakes perfection for wholeness, we are discouraged from dancing with the brokenness, messiness, and imperfection of our interior lives — and yet only when do so can we begin to feel whole and measure our lives in terms of deep meaning rather than superficial success.” – Maria Popova ThisContinue reading “Reading: Stumblers”
Reading: Fearlessness
From The Sacred Path of the Warrior: “For the warrior, the experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. However, we are not talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. RealContinue reading “Reading: Fearlessness”
Reading: “Simply be present…”
“Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.” — Pema Chödrön
Reading: Right and Wrong
More wisdom from When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times: “There is nobody on the planet, neither those whom we see as the oppressed nor those whom we see as the oppressor, who doesn’t have what it takes to wake up. We all need support and encouragement to be aware of what we think,Continue reading “Reading: Right and Wrong”
Reading: When Things Fall Apart…again
Revisited my notes last week from Pema Chödrön‘s “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times” when saw it was her 80th birthday and 20th anniversary of the book – timeless…and timely: “We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t reallyContinue reading “Reading: When Things Fall Apart…again”
June 2016 Playlist most requested
Highlights or rather most requested from current playlist. Enjoy! Christine and The Queens Abby Gundersen Coeur de Pirate Mutual Benefit
Reading: Self-efficacy
My last post on teaching reminded me of this favorite from Sharon Salzberg’s The Force of Kindness: “’People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities….Ability is not a fixed property…there is huge variability in it; people who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms ofContinue reading “Reading: Self-efficacy”
Reading: Reflections on Teaching — Intention and Perseverence
“Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.” – Sharon Salzberg When I shared this in classes itContinue reading “Reading: Reflections on Teaching — Intention and Perseverence”
Reading: Change
“Change has considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.” – King Whitney Jr. I found this yearsContinue reading “Reading: Change”