“Earthly things must be known to be loved;Divine things must be loved to be known.” Blaise Pascal Mindfulness practice is the key to mental stability, emotional balance and a calm, centered, empowered presence. Learning to quiet the mind and noticing what you are noticing begins with choice and is mastered through practice. Thoughts, at the … [Read more...]
Repatterning your way to Personal Freedom
June 9, 2020 by
– an Awareness Training Protocol The moment you realize the cause of your suffering is a moment of liberation. That moment of insight is an opening in awareness of an internal pattern that’s kept you stuck and in pain. Personal liberation then, is a process activated by awareness and pattern recognition, followed by a process of … [Read more...]
Reflective Practice – A Practice for Peace, Courage and Inspired Action
September 12, 2018 by
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Peter Drucker Reflective practice is learning that is directly linked to our actions, thought and feeling – to our direct experience. As a practice, reflection offers us a way to explore and direct the development of our abilities, … [Read more...]
In Giving We Receive–Therapeutic Touch®, Mindfulness Practice in Action
August 30, 2018 by
In my early days of learning Therapeutic Touch, I discovered its brilliance and was in awe at the wisdom of its founders, Dolores Krieger, RN, PhD and her mentor, Dora Kunz. It was at a Practice Group meeting in the middle of offering a healing session that I realized quite suddenly that in this simple act of helping another, I felt better – I … [Read more...]
Self Care – Enlightened Self-Interest
February 27, 2015 by
Self care, as a personal commitment and practice, is an expression of respecting and honoring the Self. Cats have a lot to teach us in this domain! Our attitude and outlook towards life, the quality of our energy, vitality and general condition will let us know, if we’re attentive, what we need to move towards balance in every moment. The … [Read more...]
The Best Medicine: Relax and Focus on What Excites You!
February 4, 2015 by
Taming the ‘monkey mind”, entering the stillness, quieting the mind, finding inner peace may all be ways of saying the same thing….the experience of Mindfulness, defined in 2003 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who popularized it in North America as, “Paying attention in a particular way on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment.” So … [Read more...]
Self Compassion and You
January 14, 2015 by
It is no surprise to me and I expect won’t surprise you either that people who treat themselves with compassion feel better about themselves and have better coping skills – are more able to respond rather than react to disappointments and setbacks. The September 2014 research study at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, by Kelly et al., 2014 … [Read more...]
ALL ONE – Body, Emotions, Mind and Spirit
December 9, 2014 by
You’ve been there, at least once in your life and very likely quite often. Activities that get you there – to the experience of ONENESS, to the feeling of FLOW as Cskikszentmihalyi coined it are “truly rewarding experiences that require concentrated involvement and interaction with complex information. The things that give people ‘natural highs’ – … [Read more...]
