Five ways to boost your resilience
This month’s theme is RESILIENCE. I think of it as “the ability to adapt and thrive in the midst of difficulty.” It is what we do to weather the ups and downs of everyday life. It is a natural resource with which we are all born and a skill we can improve. Mayo Clinic...
watching it all go by
In Buddhist thought, equanimity is one of the four transcendent virtues developed through meditation practice. (The others are kindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy.) These qualities of mind and heart help us cultivate positive behaviors and minimize harmful ones....
cultivating equanimity when you are ill
Often, when you are not feeling well, the way you think can make things feel worse. We can train our minds to respond to the events of our lives more skillfully. The Buddha described two arrows of suffering. The first arrow does the wounding. That is an uncontrollable...
equanimity as an element of joy
This month’s theme is equanimity. Equanimity is the stability of mind that allows us to be present with an open heart no matter how wonderful or difficult conditions are. These days, we seem to be distressed on a personal, national, and planetary level. In...
Let us become batteries for each other (a poem)
these may be dark times, love let’s meet them with strong backs open hearts savoring the moments when the sun glimmers out breathe it in store it up energy so that we can go on hand in hand courageous in this sad shadowed world About this poem: my friends and I are...
Delight of the Day (a savoring practice)
Savoring is the capacity to attend to, appreciate, and enhance the positive experiences in one’s life. How can savoring help those of us who live with chronic pain, illness, and/or disability? Remember that you HAVE positive experiences. Sometimes when you are feeling...
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