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Beauty of Breath

October 16, 2011
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What’s your relationship to your breath? Do you have one? There are days that go by when I take about two full breaths. Sound familiar? I have a magnet on my vision board that reminds me to BREATHE and a huge Inhale, Exhale card obviously doing the same. But it’s still not enough. I mean, [...]

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The Lively Dance

September 25, 2011
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What is wellness? How do we awaken this astonishing vitality within us? Abundant health! Optimum wellness! Today, these terms get tossed around incessantly. But what do they actually mean? We all have such different definitions of wellness, distinct ideas of how to create it and of how it manifests in us and in others. Yet, [...]

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One Mindful Moment

September 18, 2011
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What is all the hype about mindfulness? What does it actually mean? How can we practice it and how does this practice inform and improve our lives? I like to think of mindfulness, or careful attention, as a process of clarification, where the muddy veil of residual habit lifts off of and separates from the [...]

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Awakened Hearing

August 7, 2011
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What does it mean to listen deeply? How does deep listening steer us towards a truer expression of who we really are? We have, as a culture, grown increasingly deaf to our inner selves. With frenzied minds, surface attachments, and noise levels on the rise, we are moving ever further from tuning in to the [...]

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The Internal Pacifist

May 1, 2011
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How do we personally handle jealousy? How might we better metabolize it? When unexplored, jealousy burns hot and out of control. There is nothing quite so snarled and unbecoming as this. Because of its ugliness, and because it arises out of our own sense of insufficiency, we try incredibly hard to suppress and ignore the [...]

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Heart’s Desire

March 1, 2011
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What is greed all about? Might we begin to explore the root of our excessive desires, and begin to let them go? However painful it is to admit, we are all at times driven by and made wild with intense yearning, where craving is so powerful the distinction between need and want becomes obscured. Culturally, [...]

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