Month: February 2021

When processing emotional stress there is the feeling and then there is the narrative.  The feeling arises in your body, the narrative arises in your mind.  When you root your awareness in your body, you fully feel the sensations of whatever is stressing you out.  That means if you feel anxious, angry, sad (or whatever … Continue reading Get Out Of Your Head And Into Your Body

We are all imprinted with different versions of what it means to love and be loved from the world around us.  When stress arises in any relationship, our definitions of love are tested.  If your definition of love is unchanging then the relationship stagnates or ends as the conditions for love are no longer met.  … Continue reading What Is Your Definition of Love?

The mind likes to categorize, label and judge.  If we buy into these fragmented perceptions of self and others, then we get trapped in a repetitive cycle of stories that create conflict and division.  As you learn to still the mind, it allows for greater awareness of the feeling in your heart space that is … Continue reading The Mind Divides, The Heart Unifies

Rather then see negative experiences as events to be avoided, it can help to see them as our teachers.  The lessons we need to learn from such experiences corresponds to the resulting negative emotion that is arising from the event.  Underneath every negative emotion there are untapped virtues that our emotions are trying to guide … Continue reading Negative Experiences Can Be Our Greatest Teachers