Today’s meditation offering is for when we forget. When we forget who we want to be in the world and how we want to act… When we get caught in stress/fear/anger and fall into our habitual ways of thinking.

Have you noticed that when we are in our bubble of stress or overwhelm that we stop seeing other people as actual people? They simply become someone in the way…

Swami Rama once said, “Contentment is falling in love with your life.” If you’ve ever been in a long-term relationship you already know – falling in love doesn’t happen at once. It happens in fits and starts, over and over again. There is the initial fall, the later moments of irritations and hurts, the deeper discoveries of connection and intimacy, more hurts, more connection… and on and on it goes.

Join me as we enter into this year’s Black Friday weekend by setting a mindful intention. Before we shop. Before we eat. Before we connect with friends and family. Let’s clear some space and invite in exactly what we most need this holiday season.

re·sist·ance
noun

1. the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.

2. the ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely.

Our meditation practice is the practice of The Middle Way. Meaning the practice isn’t about perfection, a goal or an end-game. The practice IS the practice.

One of my very favorite questions ever posed to me comes from meditation teacher Tara Brach –

“When you are on your way somewhere, can you appreciate beauty?”

#truestory This morning, my almost-3-year-old wakes up and the very first words out his mouth are, “Mommy, I’m like sky.” Although I haven’t shared this teaching with him, I love that he innately knows it…