Tag: meditation

Meditation for March 26th. 2016 The Security Blanket We have something in our life that we need to feel safe and we don’t want anyone to take it away. We picture Linus from Peanuts with his blue blanket and sucking his thumb and getting mad at Snoopy who takes it from Linus all the time. […]

   Meditation for March 25th, 2016 Blood Diamonds  A lot of attention has been given to blood diamonds, or conflict diamonds. These are diamonds that are from war torn countries and help pay for the violent warfare. Visions of child soldiers lugging AK-47s through the savannah come to mind.  People look at skipping the diamond […]

Meditation for March 24th, 2016 Your Voice We all have a unique voice. It isn’t just how the voice sounds, but the words we use, our phrases and slang, the accent and tone and the volume we use. You can tell that someone you know is on the other side of the supermarket aisle just […]

Meditation for March 23rd, 2016 Sharing Our Feelings When someone says or does something that hurts our feelings, the best way to respond is to share our feelings and be heard. You say something like, “When you ____________________, I feel ____________________.” The person then does with that information that they will and you have spoken. […]

   Meditation for March 22nd, 2016Spring Moods It is finally spring and now people are gearing up for warmer weather. The sun isn’t here to stay though because in the spring all you have to do is wait 5 minutes and the weather changes. Sometimes it is calm and warm and other times it is […]

Meditation for March 21st, 2016 Knowledge Makes You Dumb People are thirsty for knowledge. For us more enlightened creatures, we absorb as much as we can from books, teachers and by just watching the world around us. We want to understand what is happening, why it is happening and how it is happening. We look […]

Meditation for March 20th, 2016 Teaching Lessons We all have teachers. Some of them are traditional teachers like professors, parents, councilors, older people, therapists and many other educator roles we encounter. Others are people passing through our lives and do or say that one thing that changes our path. Hopefully as we live our lives […]

Meditation for March 18th, 2016 This Moment In the path to mindfulness, we try to live moment by moment. We focus on our breath, ignoring thoughts about the past and the future. We concentrate on the task at hand instead of why you have to do the task or what the completion of the task […]

Meditation for March 17th, 2016 Everyone is Irish Today is St. Patrick’s Day in America and everyone is proud of his or her Irish ancestry for a night. This pride comes in the form of drinking till you pass out and dressing up like a leprechaun, loving the Pogues and suddenly being violently into soccer […]