Category: Awareness

Repeat

We just visited my mother-in-law who has dementia.Her long-term memory is enough that she recognizes us. But she has very little short-term memory, which means she repeats the same few things over and over.She’ll talk about how big the kids are and ask them what they’ve been up to this summer.Then her mind will move

When the Change you Want Hurts

Within a few days of my last cigarette 18 years ago, I felt horribly sick. Thick, disgusting stuff was being coughed out of my lungs, my sinuses were draining, and I was so mentally foggy I was hesitant to drive my car. I remember thinking how unfair this was. This was my reward for trying to

No Core

My friend Phil Hughes wrote another book of metaphors. His first book was great. I like this one even more. It’s called “You Are Not Who You Think You Are!”One of my favorite chapters is called What Remains When the Last Layer Falls Away? “Discovering who you are is like peeling an onion.Layer after layer disappears

Specific = Universal

Have you noticed that the more specific you get, the more universal things look?The more you talk with someone, going deep into the details of their life, their stories, worries, concerns, wishes and hopes……the more you see that they are just like you? The specifics may vary quite a bit, but in diving into those

Regain Your Bearings

We had a nest of 6 baby bunnies in the bush outside our front door. I can’t even begin to express in words how adorable they were. Checking on these baby bunnies (from a safe distance, of course), discussing where their mother was, making bets on their birthday, provided hours of entertainment.We knew their time

Misunderstanding

All human suffering is due to some very simple misunderstandings.All habits and addictions, worries, and feelings of stuckness stem from some very simple misunderstandings about life.They come from misunderstandings about who we really are and how our human experience works.With these misunderstandings cleared up, life makes more sense. This is true anywhere in life– when

What if your Sensitivities are your Greatest Asset?

I knew someone with a very sensitive stomach. The tiniest bit of worry and she’d instantly feel sick.She cursed her stomach. She saw it as a weakness.She wanted her stomach fixed. Her mind was full of ways I might help her toughen up her wimpy tummy. Could we train it to not react to her

Home Base isn’t a Feeling

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All the Same

We are one being.We look separate. We seem different. It appears as if there are solid boundaries that make you you, me me, and that that.But beyond those more-illusory-than-real boundaries, our sameness is massive, deep, and essential. Our differences are superficial and fleeting.Our habits are also all the same but for the surface-level ways they

Wild Goose Chase

I used to think that suffering was showing me I had it wrong.I thought that if I felt badly around my partner, my feelings were showing me that I was in the wrong relationship.If I woke up feeling badly, I wracked my brain for a cause. Is someone upset with me? Is there a missed