The way we speak to ourselves directly informs how we speak to others. Our meditation practice is a gentle way to discover how we are talking to ourselves AND it gives us the gift of choice. Join me today for this brief meditation as we start to imbue our self-talk with kindness.

This month’s meditation series is all about taking your meditation practice deeper. One of the facets of a deepening meditation practice is known as Right Speech. The teachings around Right Speech offer us guidance for speaking in a way that gives rise to peace and happiness within oneself and others. It is a practice of speaking deep, kind truth. And, perhaps most importantly, it is a practice that begins within Self. 

Alfred Brendel tells us “The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.”

If you want to take your meditation practice deeper, you must first become comfortable with silence. In this week’s mini meditation, we practice cultivating the skill of deep listening within our meditation practice. We will create a space that is free of agitation, distraction, and reaction. And, if you choose to grab a journal, I’m also sharing one of my favorite ways to hone the skill of deep listening.

This month’s meditation series is all about taking your meditation practice deeper. As we dive into a meditation practice, one of the common quandaries we run into is what do we DO with the practice as it starts to affect us? As we begin to quiet down and listen more, how do we work with all that we discover? When and where does change happen?

A 10-minute meditation meant to help you reconnect to yourself and your day in a more alivened way. Use this practice to support a daily, home meditation practice.

It takes a deep commitment to self to make a daily meditation practice happen. It sounds good on paper or in theory… but, the actuality of a daily practice is that is takes T I M E. Every. Single. Day. It asks of us to place value on stillness; it asks of us to claim our calendars as our own; and it asks of us to let go of what popular culture tells us about achievement.

Even in the shortest of practices, done on the busiest of days, we can touch into what’s sacred and graceful in our lives. When one of my Teachers asked, “are you practicing out of discipline or out of devotion?” it immediately reminded me of what I most love about this practice. Join me today for this short meditation and feel for yourself what happens when you practice out of devotion.

Recently, the question was posed to me, “are you practicing out of discipline or is there an element of devotion?” and it simply stopped me in tracks. What has happened to my practice?!