Tips for Guiding the Best Meditations
1. Be sure you meditate. Guiding a meditation and doing your own practice are two different things. Get your own practice in first. Be mindful when you enter the meditation space
The 1 Year Odyssey: Creating a Meditation Community Online
The Lockdown It’s been just about a year now, give or take a day or two, since my visiting European friends, Sue and Suzi, left Santa Barbara. The U.S. was locking down and they
Alone Together: Online Meditations
With the news of the Corona Virus and the subsequent lockdowns, popular McLean Meditation Institute faculty and teachers offered daily free online meditations for 9 months, nearly
What is a Soul-Centered Life?
Everyone wants to be happy, free, and fulfilled. And, here’s the thing, we already are – our soul, our being is naturally like that. And it is creative, wise, patient, and lovi
Is the World a Friendly Place?
How do you view the world? Do you feel as if everything and everyone is on your side? Do you marvel at the good luck you have? If your answer is “yes”, perhaps it’
The Mind & Body Fade Away
My Father’s Passing (written in 2007) I would often leave the nursing home unfulfilled. Though I had done my duty: I had visited my aging father to make sure he had clean clo
Be a Superhero
A superhero is ridiculously in charge of his or her attention. They don’t let anyone tell them what they can or can’t do, especially if it has to do with saving the world.
Negative Side Effects of Meditation:
Meditation and mindfulness training is more popular than ever before. Due to this increase in popularity, the imagined commercial potential is attracting enterprising business peop
Transcendence: Curving Your Attention Back on Itself
After we picked up Daniel Siegel from the train station, we drove toward Isaac Newton’s childhood home. We were going to meditate there, under the apple tree that was said to
Meeting Challenges with Love
What a challenging time on our planet. I don’t even watch the news because it is so disturbing. Instead, I keep on teaching peace. I pray. I meditate. I take inspired action.
