"Our medications are anti-depressants, or anti-anxiety, as if the only sensible goal is to subtract them. Our disorders are called “mood disorders” or “thought disorders” or “anxiety disorders”—once again feeding…
“All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real…
I have been paying attention to what makes a meditation feel successful. A few metaphors have come up for me when I think about what this feels like. Exercise I…
We all have addictions. One way I sometimes look at life is a process of eliminating addictions so that we can be at peace. If we were all 100% addiction…
A couple of days ago I was on a familiar running route that I’ve done dozens of times over the past year… through a park, down a dirt road, across…
In a previous post I wrote about my first attempt at fasting for longer than a day. It ended up being 70 hours. For the first 1 or 2 days…
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Shakespeare Cognitive behavioral therapy is based on the central idea that you can change your life, and feelings…
The other day I was jogging / hiking and listening to an audiobook. Or maybe it was a podcast. I don’t remember, and that is telling. It was just noise…
We tend to get fixated on what we want as a means of obtaining happiness, or peace, or joy, or whatever noun you prefer to indicate that state that we’re…
“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live…