Acting grateful

Gratitude, we hear a lot about it. Sometimes when I hear a term often enough, the word becomes familiar and maybe I don’t think a lot about its meaning. “Yeah, thx man,” might not be plunging the depths of the beauty of gratitude but might be where many of us spend our gratitude “quotas.” Continue reading “Acting grateful”

In this moment is all of your life

a walk in the park is a perfect place to practice mindfulness

Mindful practices to keep you living life in the present
Often when I talk about meditation with people, their eyes sort of glaze over… like I’m suggesting they do “ONE MORE THING” in an already too busy day. There are many ways to put a calming, de-stressing practice like meditation into your life. And who of us don’t need a bit of calm, peaceful loss of stress? Continue reading “In this moment is all of your life”

“I’m too busy.” “I’m too tired.” “I don’t like to exercise.”

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Does one of these statements sound like you? I personally fall in the “I’m too busy” category so don’t imagine I’m here pointing a finger at you. Most of my blogs are actually written to me in hopes of ingraining more positive ideas into my psyche and in the process, I imagine I might help some of you too. Continue reading ““I’m too busy.” “I’m too tired.” “I don’t like to exercise.””

Why meditate?

Settle in to Peace, suniMoon, TheEnergyOfHappy.com“Why am I doing this?”
It’s a question that I have asked myself on those days when meditation seems illusive and my schedule is crammed. But I’m lucky, in that I truly do know why I want to meditate so I continue to practice and I always will. Continue reading “Why meditate?”