by TAadministrator | Apr 14, 2015 | Brain, Mindfulness, Vision
This past sunday I spent the morning at my local Buddhist Center. I set up the altar, put on a pot of coffee, arranged the meditation cushions and dug out the mugs and tea bags (and was then corrected for my mis-alignment of the seven bowls on the altar and the...
by TAadministrator | Mar 16, 2015 | Brain, Habits, Mindfulness, Vision
I am really interested in this phenomena that I am noticing around the issue of recording and sharing experiences. There seems to be a real need to record all events in one’s life – and I definitely fall prey to this: I have found myself narrating my experience...
by TAadministrator | Feb 16, 2015 | Habits, Mindfulness, Mindset, Stress
When I got my first period, as a rather shocked 11-year-old, my mother congratulated me for starting the “curse.” And I did find it a curse! I was a gangly, nerdy, sporty, shy, brace-wearing kid who did not want to have to deal with the irritating physical aspect of...
by TAadministrator | Feb 10, 2015 | Ayurveda, Brain, Habits, Mindfulness
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and...
by TAadministrator | Jan 6, 2015 | Habits, Mindfulness, Mindset, Vision
I have always remembered dates. For me they mark the passage of time and I have always felt it is important to acknowledge events in my life, both good and bad, and the emotions that are inevitably generated by these events. It is easy to remember the good dates and...
by TAadministrator | Jan 6, 2015 | Mindfulness, Mindset, Vision
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2014 Tuesday September 16th, 2014 would have been my 14th wedding anniversary, if my ex and I had not separated this year. Although the research says that women tend to have much more regret about romantic failures than...