Reduce Stress that Comes with Pain
Reduce stress that comes with pain for more relief. A new group is starting in October. I will be holding a mindfulness-based group for adults suffering with chronic pain from any cause, and fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. Pain causes stress and both affect your mind and body. The mindful approach to relieving pain also relieves stress in your daily life. We will discuss pain, your pain, and how your pain effects your life each moment of the day and night, and in doing so teach you how to use the mindful methods to lessen its effect on your life, your body and your mind. I...
Read MoreBooks to daze your summer mind
The title is my attempt at a play on words, Summer daze, mind daze… if you are in a daze and want to wake up then check out my book, CD and DVD suggestions page new on my website. They will break your daze by expanding your awareness. I’m an avid reader with a few books going at all times. I still prefer the actual book to the Kindle-type readers or PC. I love the feel of the book, writing (not typing) my thoughts in the margins, turning down corners, and having multiple colorful or inspiring bookmarks placed in selected pages so I can go back and forth as I read. I’ve come...
Read MoreAre you attaching to suffering?
The moment does not last long and therefore, it’s easy to slip back into suffering thoughts. This forms an attachment to suffering. Raising your level of consciousness is one key to non-attachment.
Open doors waiting for you don’t sound an alarm or flash a neon light. They open because you become aware of their energetic vibration. When you energetically match the door it opens. Are you matching with doorways opening to suffering or to joy?
When you think about something from only one perspective, you are attaching to that thought, and your energy is too. Thinking is where your energetic life force goes, so you believe your thoughts are accurately representing the situation. The more you think about it, the more you attach to it. Eventually, you can confuse attachment with truth or fact.
Time – Use it or Lose it
These questions are meant to prompt you to think deeply about how you are using your life force these days. Time is a function of life force, your personal energy forming who you are as a body, personality and mind. How are you using your time, your life force?
Read MoreAre you letting your expectations hold you back?
Knowledge is power, as you know. But have you stopped to think that this power comes from inner knowledge too, by bringing your unconscious thoughts and beliefs into the light? Working with you to bring your highest self into expression now, will increase your self-knowledge and empower you on many levels.
Read MoreIs your life surpassing itself?
Life is occupied both in perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. —Simone de Beauvoir
I first heard this quote when I was 30 something. I didn’t quite understand it. Yet it touched me somewhere deep inside that knew more than I did then, so I hung it on my wall for further ponder.
A few years later I found a place to use it where the context further elucidated the quote.
When less time is a good thing
If we want to act on what we know—which is that we can invigorate our lives every age—then we need to embrace the passage of time as an asset, and opportunity, a framework for accomplishments and dreams as we age.”
From “The Creative Age, Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life,” written by Gene D. Cohen, MD, PhD