Mindful Matters

The backbone of Mindfulness rests in its connection to being compassionate to yourself. This radical act of self care allows you to radiate these feelings of safety, joy, and peace to others. Everyone benefits!

This practice by Tara Brach allows you to recognize, accept, investigate and not identify with difficult emotions.

One of the benefits of mindfulness is learning to regulate our emotions. This practice encourages you to stay with difficult feelings with curiosity in a loving accepting way by labeling them.

Recent research shows that positive emotions of appreciation, gratitude and love actually create harmonious heart rhythms. All it takes is 20 seconds to fully experience a heart felt moment ...

We benefit and are soothed by being still and listening to our heart. It is a place of great wisdom and insight ... and it has a brain of its own. Drop in!

We have many thoughts each day, however, 95% of today’s thoughts are reruns of what we were thinking yesterday. It may be time to write some new songs.

This practice allows you to watch thoughts once the body is relaxed, much the same way a cat watches for a mouse ... with full attention.

We’ll be working with the thinking mind and learn techniques to slow it down and not get caught up in its false narratives.

This intention of this meditation is drop down deeply into your core, especially when there is turbulence around you or within you. It helps you find refuge amidst a storm.

This meditation uses the metaphor of a pebble being dropped into a serene lake. Pose a question and drop the pebble .... pay attention to what insight comes up.