I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.

Torsten from Berlin raises an excellent question, one for the ages. If mindfulness is about being present, how is a practitioner supposed to plan for the future? Remember the past? Are planning and memory inconsistent with mindfulness? In this week’s answer I offer some insights. Enjoy! And please feel free to ask me your question about meditation, mindfulness, spirituality, relationships, or anything I might be helpful with. Leave me a message here .

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I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.

Katia’s question is about figuring out the balance between kindness toward others and self-care. In this answer, I discuss the real meaning of compassion (spoiler alert: it doesn’t mean being nice), how compassion for self naturally blossoms into compassion for others, and the two forms of compassion, according to Buddhist thought: relative and absolute. I also share a little bit about my personal system for when I feel like I’m being overwhelmed by someone else.

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I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.

This week’s question is truly fascinating. Our questioner has discovered that since beginning a meditation practice, his mind keeps trying to stay awake, even as his body is trying to fall asleep. Interesting! Irritating! All of the above. In this episode, I offer a few thoughts and also refer him to the work of Andrew Holocek who has expertise on dreaming and meditation that I do not possess.

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I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.

This week’s excellent question is about equanimity. Our lovely questioner wants to know how she can remain equanimous when she investigates emotional pain. A key question for us all.

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I’m really excited to be able to offer this to you. Each week, I will answer a question about spirituality and meditation practice. Please click here to ask me your question.

Ashley is planning to come on one of my retreats. YAY! This is her first-ever meditation retreat and she was wondering what she could do to prepare.

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