by TAadministrator | Mar 3, 2013 | Mindfulness
At the Google conference, Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco last weekend, I went to a talk by a renowned writer and speaker. She made a comment which stuck with me, because it seemed to encapsulate the value and importance of generalities in how we think in the East and the...
by TAadministrator | Feb 11, 2013 | Mindfulness
To start on this path one must develop compassion for all beings, even those who we may find challenging or perhaps even repugnant, due to their actions or words. These challenging people are in fact our most important teachers, because without them, we have no...
by TAadministrator | Jan 8, 2013 | Habits
In June I wrote about how meditation affects your brain. Specifically, fMRI scans revealed that long time meditators had increased activity in the parts of the brain that are important in processing empathy – especially in perceiving the mental and emotional state of...
by TAadministrator | Dec 17, 2012 | Habits
Everyone knows the value of physical exercise. We are taught this in school, our doctors tell us this when we have check ups and even popular culture reminds us that so-and-so lost her baby weight by exercising as well as eating healthily. Why don’t we place the...
by TAadministrator | Sep 27, 2012 | Mindfulness
Depending who you ask, “attachment” can be something that you strive for or something that you studiously avoid. Both require practice, yet appear at first glance to be fundamentally different concepts. Developmental Attachment The British psychoanalyst Bowlby coined...
