Mindfulness
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About a year ago I was asked to give a presentation to a large group of medical residents about what mindfulness is, and the benefits of practicing it. The retreat they were attending was about death and dying. The doctor who asked me to open the retreat was forthright in sharing that the previous years […]
Aug 28, 2020
i admit, i struggle with conflict – i’m an avoider of them. i’m the proverbial middle-child peacemaker. being married to an attorney, i find myself at a loss for words often. he’s trained to argue a point to exhaustion. in a methodical, mathematical & scientific way. i usually stand there, trying to make sense of […]
“people say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. i am there; i can explain everything up to that point. then i struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.” ~ BKS Iyengar when my now husband & […]
i opened up one of my favorite newsletters this morning THE SUNDAY PAPER from Maria Shriver & read this quote: “…in trying to help others, we might come to realize that compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.” -Pema Chödrön & it struck me as to why i started doing what […]
