Healing, yes, but not the whole truth
Have you ever been captivated by something magically life-changing? A teaching, healing, or new perspective that felt eye-opening, exciting, and hopeful… Maybe you felt that meditation or [...]
Have you ever been captivated by something magically life-changing? A teaching, healing, or new perspective that felt eye-opening, exciting, and hopeful… Maybe you felt that meditation or [...]
“One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself.” This was from meditation teacher Stephen Batchelor’s OnBeing podcast. I listened to it as I returned [...]
Do you ever walk to the kitchen and forget what you wanted? That’s how your mind works. When I wrote my books on brain fitness, I learned that the cognitive cortex is entwined with your [...]
Have you ever ended up in the kitchen, wondering what the hell you came to get? Congratulations! Your human brain is working the way it was built. I discovered (when I wrote Brain Fitness for [...]
The first time I meditated, it was absolute ecstasy. Instead of living the blues, I felt vibrant, alive, even happy. My bedraggled 20-year-old self was hooked. Each morning after, I repeated my [...]
I’m a bad meditator. “No judgment!” say my teachers. “Just return to the breath.” Yeah, I try to do that, but…. After decades of meditating (on and off), I [...]