Posts Tagged ‘thoughts’

• Is “patience” a state of mind?

  written by Simone on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

  I struggle with patience.  Two phrases make me cringe, ‘be patient’ and ‘have faith.’ I don’t know why. Is it because I am immature or childish and I just want what I want now? Does one have patience because they have faith and trust or is patience something that transcends the content of thoughts and better understood in the context of [...]

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• Five Ways to Get Present, Now

  written by Simone on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

  Here are five ways to get into the moment when you’ve lost your center and stess has taken over. Maybe you have heard all of these words of wisdom before; however, here is the medtitative or yogic perspective.  Remember, our mind, attachment to our thoughts, our stories, are the source of our suffering (stress); in order [...]

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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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