Mindfulness and Forgiveness Guided Meditation

Please enjoy the following streaming audio of a guided mindfulness and forgiveness exercise. This practice will help you begin to unwind the chronic tension in the mind and body around unfinished business with a person you feel has hurt you. Please pick something of fairly low emotional intensity to work with at first (this [...]

More On Forgiveness

Forgiveness is at the heart of developing compassion. Many of us carry around memories of actions, decisions, and words we have used against ourselves, and against others. We may also carry the memories and stories of how we have been hurt by others. Over time these have solidified into contraction in the mind and chronic [...]

Working with Anxiety

Most of us feel anxiety every day of our lives. Anxiety in small doses can be a healthy motivator and part of our daily performance in life. However, for many people anxiety reaches an intensity level around certain experiences and situations that prevents us from making the choices we want and engaging in activities that [...]

Divide and Conquer – Relating to our Mind/Body experience and Difficult Emotions

My teacher Shinzen Young often uses this phrase to identify our basic strategy when building internal awareness of sensory phenomena (anything we think, feel, notice in the body-mind.) Having this intention to ‘divide and conquer’, can be a great aid in bringing mindfulness to difficult emotional or physical experiences. Breaking down our experiences [...]