For the days when even a 5-minute break doesn’t feel possible. Rather than think, “I SHOULD pause and meditate” let’s really do it… One minute to wake up, reconnect, and move forward with clear intention.

Join me for a 7-minute classical meditation – The Smile Meditation – to cultivate joy or, at least, the space for joy in the heart, mind and body <3

This meditation shifts our formal practice to a “mindful minute”. In the midst of our busy days, can we find moments to re-awaken? To become present to the full experience of whatever it is that we are doing? Even if it is simply washing dishes.

Every single moment has a feeling tone to it: pleasure, pain or neutrality, and each of those tones is accompanied by an automatic reaction…

Being a native Atlantan, I feel pretty confident this meditation will be useful! How often do you get stuck in traffic or waiting on the bus? How often have you thought you planned enough time to get somewhere and then, lo and behold, with zero control of the circumstances, you find yourself 10, 15 even 30 minutes late thanks to traffic.

When I teach meditation, I almost always get some push back when it comes to offering love/kindness/compassion to oneself. Some of the comments I’ve heard include…

During the course of the day, we experience ourselves in many different roles. As a friend, an employee, a partner, a parent… With some people we act one way; with others we act differently. Today’s meditation reunites the fragmented parts of our soul and offers a chance to reconnect to our self, to our inherent loveliness.

For most of us, we operate with some level of “I am not ok; this moment needs to be FIXED” more often than not. We are continually editing the story of our lives, and we do it in a thick, red Sharpie. With slashes across the page, giant X’s through words/moments/experiences and lots of notes in the margins…