What the hell is water?
In the four months I’ve been away from my blog, my father succumbed to cancer and my mother moved in. I think about David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water,” and I wonder if this is water.
On meditation?
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Stopping by a Boulder on a Sunny Day
The rocks are gritty, high and steep, But I have a promise to keep, And holds to go before I sleep, And holds to go before I sleep.
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A New Kind of Relationship
Working with myself, for myself, has felt like the closest thing to self-care in a while.
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an epiphany: balance
today I had an epiphany. maybe. the point of balance isn’t to even the score or even... to even out the good stuff and the bad stuff.
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Change is a Spiral
Change is a non-linear path, one that may not lead us where we think it will. All change begins as mindset work. The more I listen to methods for behavioral change, the more apparent this becomes.
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The Cartesian Split
The road to awareness is paved by good intentions and it’s a slippery slope. Once I began to bring awareness to a part of my experience, I began to bring awareness to other parts of my experience by accident.
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Is This Self-Care?
The ultimate self check-in is the act of sitting down, closing your eyes, and tuning in. This simple practice is crucial to connecting with yourself.
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Fixing What We Can See
We can sometimes get swallowed up in “fixing” the things we can see: how our bodies look and how we can use them to perform. Even if you’re a professional athlete, taking care of your mental and emotional health is paramount to your success and happiness in life. Being physically gifted only gets you so far.
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Beginner’s Mind
I like being good at things and despise being bad at things. It’s struck me lately that I am especially bad at being a “good” beginner, that is, someone with a beginner’s mind. The “beginner’s mind” is a concept from Zen Buddhism: it is an attitude towards learning that is open, eager, and unencumbered by expectations.
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Permission to Meditate
I’ve heard meditation compared to juggling: you have to try not to try. Once you start trying and thinking about how to juggle or how you’re doing, the balls will fall right out of the air.
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Starting Anew
Rob and I started YogaGlo’s “Foundations of Flow” program, led by Jason Crandell, and for the first time, I believe that practicing yoga is finally going to “stick.” One of the crucial things for me has been shifting my focus from coming to the practice to achieve to coming to the practice to learn.
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