Embracing Love Practice – “I Love You”

The simple practice of placing our hands on our hearts and repeating out loud the words “I love you” is a powerful practice to bring more love into our lives. Saying the words out loud brings the vibration of love into our physical reality, filling our hearts and bodies with love. Watch the rest ofContinue reading “Embracing Love Practice – “I Love You””

Forget Detachment – All You Need is Love

The Buddhist idea of Detachment is so often misunderstood that the word itself has become problematic. Fortunately, we don’t need to understand detachment, all we need is Love. Watch the rest of the discussion in the Meditation Conversation on 8-12-21. More Mindful Living

How Loving Ourselves Helps Us Make Better Choices

Do you ever feel haunted by compulsive, self-defeating behaviors? These can range from obviously self-destructive patterns of alcohol or drug abuse to more subtly unhealthy relationships with food, people, work, or even exercise. All too often, we’re faced with a temptation to indulge in some type of instant gratification that we know – deep downContinue reading “How Loving Ourselves Helps Us Make Better Choices”

A Simple Practice to Break through the Protective Shell around our Hearts

In our last post: A Simple Practice to Discover how Deeply you Love Yourself, we discussed the struggle many of us face in loving ourselves. The simple act of looking at ourself in the mirror and saying β€œI love you” is often challenging, because the concept of unconditionally loving ourselves, exactly as we are, isContinue reading “A Simple Practice to Break through the Protective Shell around our Hearts”

A Simple Practice to Discover how Deeply we Love Ourselves

When we struggle to love ourselves, all of our other relationships – romantic, familial, friendly – will be troubled as well. Here is a free, simple practice to help us assess our relationship with our own heart. No, it’s not an online questionnaire with a bunch of multiple-choice answers that never quite express the nuancesContinue reading “A Simple Practice to Discover how Deeply we Love Ourselves”