Tag: meditation
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Work Stress, the Art of Work and Meditation in Action
Meditation in action transforms work stress. We only need to take three deep breaths and notice the subtle difference in how we feel. It doesn’t take much. As we calm down little by little, we can think and feel more clearly about what is important emotionally and rationally. The art of work and the art…
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Arya Stark and Game of Thrones; The Father/Daughter Relationship;
Arya Stark is a character with a warm heart and a calculated revenge. She symbolizes for us an emotional tension that all people experience in varying degrees. It is the tension between anger and longing. We can have longing for love, security, comfort, peace, or enlightenment. Arya longs for her father and all that encompasses.…
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How to Clear Your Mind; Finding Your Way
Some ways to clear your mind are healthier than others, some longer lasting. You can clear your mind with a temporary distraction or clear it with a transformative experience. There are ways to calm down that have deeper and more lasting effects. The side effects are more positive. It can be exhausting when the mind…
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Work Stress and Feeling Overworked
How to deal with stress at work is more complicated than we might think. Usually we “just endure” the stress at work. Endurance is an important quality to develop. However, if that is the only tool in the tool box we could exhaust our body as well as our spirit. This is one…
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New Year’s Resolutions, Will Power and Bad Habits
Who hasn’t had a problem with will power and bad habits. We all get to points in our life where we see that our habits have turned destructive. They started out fun, exciting and very satisfying and then turned to the opposite. The negative effect begins outweighing the positive effect. The negative consequences on our…
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Materialistic Values Hidden in Spirituality
Everyone needs material things, a healthy sense of pride, and a means to personal and spiritual satisfaction. We have all experienced our materialistic attitudes out of balance. It is how we know our spirit, when we are losing it or when it is gone. That is how we come to value it and even want…
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Holiday Stress
How we interact with Holiday Stress is where the relief happens. How we relate with overwhelming situations, feelings and time constraints is the skill that we are learning. Healthy stress and Unhealthy stress Healthy stress is the challenge we give ourselves to mature and grow in our life. Unhealthy stress makes us sick and depressed.…
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Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Holidays
Usually, people who tend toward depression are very sensitive. As fall and winter pull us into our inner world of feelings, thoughts, intuitions, and sensations, it brings us closer to the subtleties of how we tick. We miss the light of spring and summer where everything is bright, clear and extroverted. I commonly hear clients,…
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Meditation Music and Listening to Silence
Musical sounds can focus the mind/body connection as a door way into deeper meditation. Music, bells, drumming, chanting and other various sounds have been used to enrich the mind, body and spirit for thousands of years. Each person and culture use music in their own way but it is usually for the same basic purpose;…
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Three Meditation Techniques for Therapy
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of meditation techniques, all with roughly the same intention: peacefulness, happiness, calmness, less pain, increased wisdom and compassion, and spiritual connection. There are seated meditations, walking meditations, standing meditations, and sleeping meditations. There are meditations that use the breath, a mantra, an image, a sound, fasting, psychedelic plants, isolation, and…
