Posts Tagged ‘overcoming suffering’

• Is ‘Unhappiness’ a requirement for Happiness?

  written by Simone on Thursday, September 1st, 2011

  There is so much talk about happiness today that it seems like anything that makes us happy is good and anything that falls under the ‘unhappiness’ umbrella is bad only to chase the things that create the former and avoid the things that make us feel the latter. Has the pendulum swung [...]

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• Meditation at Work

  written by Simone on Sunday, May 1st, 2011

  After meditation practice, I often feel peaceful, calm, serene, a sense of connection, openness, inner joy and relaxation … and then I go to work … and poof within the hour my connection to this inner state has disappeared. Where does it go?  How do we cultivate a more mindful work environment? Can we make [...]

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• Is my priority peace of mind?

  written by Simone on Saturday, July 24th, 2010

  “It’s easy to live in the moment, when most of your moments take place in Maui.” Sometimes the stresses of the day can be too much. I realized that I brought home with me and allowed stay for the evening thoughts of the day; conversations real and imagined along with all of the [...]

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• Is one recurring thought keeping you fat?

  written by Simone on Friday, December 4th, 2009

  Confession: I love the Biggest Looser. I know it totally manipulates our emotions and the product placement/commercials within the show are atrocious. But as I watch their journey’s; the hard work and the personal vulnerabilities and realizations they share with the world, it confirms for me that with access to, an understanding of, and ability to [...]

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• What Brings Us To Meditation?

  written by YeShey on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

  Most of us come to the spiritual path because we are experiencing something in life that we don’t like, something that we want to overcome.  At some level we have a dissatisfaction, a pain, some form of suffering. Perhaps we have already tried various ways of overcoming the suffering. We found that some methods helped [...]

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