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Moment of Mind Hello all, Some mornings I get up and tears are fresh, at the surface, spilling over. I don’t always have a “this is why” explanation that tidily connects to some event that’s happening to me, right then. There aren’t always thoughts running through the mind as the source either.This morning my partner […]

Moment of Mind Mindfulness involves noticing our moment to moment lived experience without editorializing.This month of spring (or fall if you’re in the southern hemisphere) I thought I would share a few simple reflections for whatever noticing shows up over there on the other side of the screen. Perhaps you could skim them and choose

Moment of Mind When I launched this business in 2019 I was following a thread of curiosity. I wanted to explore integrating the community health assessment work I was doing with mindfulness. I had started to feel uncomfortable having my contemplative practice so separate from my worklife.  I felt fear of what people would think

Moment of Mind Hey all, it’s tough times for the body. I invite you to take care of that body. This week I’m including a series of straightforward practices to exercise attention. Here are a few to explore: Pranayama breathing basics with AJ Single point focus with Rev. angel Kyodo williams Mindfulness of sound with Mindful Schools R.A.I.N practice

Moment of Mind This past month the weekly newsletters oriented somewhat around the idea of expectations…and how they may relate to a desire for control. Similarly,  the lack of expectations may relate to feeling states such as awe and happy-surprise (compared to the efftheworldIhatethis-surprise variations). I suspect that presence is always underneath the stormy thoughtmares and emotional

Moment of Mind One of the spiritual influencers I follow, Sah D’Simone (whom I adore in part because of their/his videos which incorporate traumatic release movements, in often light-hearted ways) recently shared a reminder that the majority of thoughts we think are simply electrical signals created by the brain (they aren’t actually who you are), that are repetitive, negative,

Moment of Mind This month (okay, most months) I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about healing. Healing has been a major focus of my life from a young age. When survival stopped being in question…then the question became about healing from trauma, abuse, isolation, and poverty.My understanding of what I thought healing was has changed

Moment of Mind In mindfulness we’re using our attention as a tool to notice our moment to moment lived experience. When we practice using it this way we learn how to return awareness to the relationship with our changing thinking, feeling and emoting states.This week, in anticipation of the shifting season and my small group

Moment of Mind In mindfulness, attention is like a beam of light shining into our moment to moment lived experience. When we shine that attention light onto thought experiences, emotional experiences, feeling experiences…we develop a supportive relationship with them. We also start to see their changing nature, that we’re the one having the experiences, and

Moment of Mind In mindfulness we’re using our attention to notice the moment to moment lived experience as it moves through. The level of instability has not abated in the world and supports for the nervous system continue to be useful.This month we’ve been using our senses as pathways to presence. In week 1 we