by Kate | Mar 4, 2014 | kind promises, mindfulness, Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will open to each moment. Mindfulness has gone mainstream! From a TIME Magazine cover to the PBS News Hour, folks are touting the advantages of being aware of each moment. On March 1, as I turned my calendar from a month of surrender to one of...
by Kate | Dec 24, 2013 | kind promises, Surrender
Kind promise: I will forgive with wild abandon I’ve been listening to Jon Kabat-Zinn on pain. He encourages us, as we feel uncomfortable, not to run away from it. Instead, he speaks of turning toward and opening to the sensations in our bodies. I use the phrase...
by Kate | Oct 22, 2013 | kind promises
Kind Promise: I will appreciate blessings. My discomforts shoulder their way into my consciousness. They demand action and they want it right now! At their insistence, much of my energy is diverted into imagining how to fix and improve myself and, unfortunately, my...
by Kate | Nov 27, 2012 | kind promises, monsters
The old saying is, “when the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Teachers of love have been appearing fast and glorious in the last few days. Lesson one: the Divine is the Source of love. I was feeling overwhelmed and unqualified [as I have been all...
by Kate | Nov 21, 2012 | kind promises
I’ve been noticing, as I am paying attention to love, that lots of feelings of inadequacy are arising in me. I thought that, once I had identified it, it would go away. Unfortunately not. I want to be hugging and cuddling and exclaiming over people and, instead,...
by Kate | Nov 2, 2012 | Creativity, kind promises
Kind Promise: I will appreciate blessings. To appreciate my blessings means to feel gratitude. (When I arranged my kind promises for the year, I chose this one so that it could coincide with the season of Thanksgiving.) Yesterday, I asked myself, “what color...
