Hopes, wishes, and dreams
1-7-2021: Have you been taking stock of the coming year and yet still feel uncertain? Maybe it’s not time to begin yet.
Tag: dailystillness
Garden of the Dragon’s Repose
1-1-2021: Let yourself feel a powerful, dragon-like peace as you float into a future of courage, compassion, and hope.
It’s up to us
12-24: In “A Christmas Carol” the injunction is utterly clear: Goodness and kindness is up to us, each one of us, and only us–not a Higher Power.
The stillness of trust
12-18: Trust is a supreme form of mindfulness.
Mandala stillness
12-15: If we could live each day not as though it were our last — but as though it were our first.
The stillness of endings
12-14: The thing about eclipses is that they touch a part of our ancient human DNA that scares us. But they’re not really scary.
We always have angels
12-13: Create a relationship with your angels. Invite them in. You’ll be glad you did—and so will they.
Who’s your friend?
12-10: We don’t have to be friends to be friendly–it still makes us feel better.
You don’t have to choose
12-8: Media, merchandise, and our own insecurities feed our sense that there’s a right or wrong choice we can make—in something as small as buying the “right” present or as big as choosing a career.
Snakes and ladders
Play a game: Stamp your foot, shout for joy, cry, yell, frolic, pat yourself on your back, and cheer.
The more you listen, the more you hear
11-26: Instead of hearing noise, listen to the degrees of silence all around you and within you.
Use your imagination
11-23: There’s a third way to celebrate this season besides rejecting the advice to “stay home” or accepting it but feeling sad or angry about it. The third way is not a middle way, not a compromise, but a delightful, mind-expanding, heart-opening opportunity.
Be the lighthouse
11-19: It makes us feel better to make others feel better.
Be still, my jaw
11-16: Our jaw is an extraordinary gateway into our bodies. It’s strong, beautiful, and essential.
Lighten up
11-13: Children levitate all the time – you see them bouncing on their toes, hopping and skipping, peering and chuckling, throwing a tantrum and cheerfully letting it go like a cloudburst on a summer day.
Love what you choose
It’s not about choosing what you love—since that isn’t always possible—but loving what you choose.
Watching over
Discover the sacred practice of trusting.
Have fun!
11-2-2020: It might seem an unlikely time to think about the word fun on a dreary Monday morning at a crucial time in history and during a pandemic, but …
Don’t take yourself so seriously
Ask yourself this: What would happen if you enjoyed yourself?
Getting to the summit
We tend to be goal-oriented, often wanting to arrive somewhere, but what happens when we get there?
Purity and innocence
How can we love ourselves unconditionally? Here’s a way you can try.
Spice up your life
10-22: Spices have been essential for health, spirituality, religious rites, and culinary enhancements for thousands of years.