Posts Tagged ‘daily pracitice’

• Why are you meditating? What’s your motivation?

  written by Simone on Saturday, June 12th, 2010

   “Why am I meditating?” is the single most important question to ask and answer for yourself as you begin. Honestly, some early mornings, my motivation or goals, or hopes for some future state of mind are the only reason I meditate.  Knowing, honestly why you are meditating will help you get onto the cushion when [...]

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• Resistance, a most common approach to life

  written by Simone on Friday, November 20th, 2009

  I watched as my brother started the process of putting his son to bed. His then two and half year old screamed and cried – seems he really didn’t want to go to bed. My brother inquired without judgment, “you can do this the hard way or you can do this the easy way, it is [...]

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• “The hardest thing to do in the world is to show-up”

  written by Simone on Friday, November 6th, 2009

  I was watching Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness lecture to Google employees on Youtube and as he spoke these words or something like them I thought “that’s it, isn’t it?” It seems for most of us, or the people I hang-out with, once we start whittling down our wants and needs, once we get past the “once X [...]

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• Are we addicted to thinking?

  written by Simone on Friday, October 16th, 2009

  I talk to lots of  people about meditation. We were just at the Yoga and Pilates Conference in Vancouver where I heard about participant’s experience with meditation.  Interestingly, the thing we heard most was ”I can’t meditate because I can’t stop thinking …”   Imagine that, the very thing we are trying to get a little control over, a little respite from, [...]

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