What is contemplation? Typing the word contemplation here eases my muscles a bit and slows my breathing. Being still has a profound positive effect on our human biology and being still with a focus on a specific word or object slows our breathing, relaxes our muscles, and our blood flows more easily through the body. What is contemplation? The act or state of contemplating. Thoughtful observation or study. Meditation on spiritual matters, especially as a …
Do you notice the internal commentary and chatter zipping through your mind? Your head? Most of us do notice this incessant chatter and wish it to be quiet. We meditate and practice yoga or walk to lessen our stress of listening to the constant chatter. We have deep habits of internally commenting, critiquing, judging every thought stream, every moment, according to our preferences, emotions, opinions and desires. We begin to see the thought stream is …
We’re conditioned to perceive life/reality as unfolding inside or outside a person/body. This caged way of perceiving life is held by the vast majority of humans and is the root of all emotional and psychological suffering. It’s been said by many folks, many times…with our thoughts we create our world. This is how the brain/mind works…conceptualizing, rationalizing, and objectifying what is perceived…and this is how we are programmed and trapped in the mind’s naming, claiming, and labeling …
For more than 25 years I suffered through daily panic attacks, agoraphobia, depression, learning disabilities, addictions, and more, you get the gist. This website describes the profound healing I experienced once learned to get out of my own way. There is an infinite intelligence, cosmic love and mystery available to each of right here, right now, that will move us through dark times and episodes of panic and despair. I call this infinite intelligence “Presence” …
Attempting to describe the indescribable points directly to the challenge of using the mind to explore the mind. I have seen my mind in action and it is like a runaway train of stories, opinions, observations, and a good measure of worthless trivia. Having seen how the mind functions, especially the thinking mind, I have much more inner peace and acceptance of that is appearing as my life. I have also seen how the mind …
The majority of the world lives inside their head. We are programmed as children from a very young age to accept the labels we are taught to believe as being a truth. When we name, claim, and label appearances we become separate from the appearance as labeling creates a specific object and a name for the object. Presence is a raw, unfiltered perception or sensation of what is appearing as aliveness before humans apply their …
