Category: Mindfulness and Meditation
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Meditating Outside…in Winter
This morning I woke up early. It was a relatively mild winter morning for Pennsylvania. I bundled up and put a comforter on one of the rocking chairs on the front porch and did my morning meditation out there. In the spring, summer, and autumn it’s my usual place for morning meditations. It’s hard to…
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Thanksgiving Hangover
My Thanksgiving hangover this year is not from too much alcohol but instead from too much of the rich beige foods of traditional Pennsylvania Thanksgivings that my body’s no longer used to and feels sluggish on. That’s not enough to keep me from eating a plate of leftovers this afternoon, though, while we watch the…
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When Family Dynamics Trigger You
After all my years of being in therapy and then being a psychotherapist, one would think I would be very adept with difficult relationships. And I am with most. But sometimes with family members, I’m not as objective. There is a lot of history with them. Intellectually, I may understand what is going on, but…
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A Deep Inner Knowing
Do you ever experience the feeling of knowing deep down in your heart or soul about something? Maybe it’s a feeling or knowing that you are right where you are supposed to be? That things on the outside may look tenuous but you just know that it’s going to be alright. What a comforting feeling…
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Pursuit of Happiness…
By Melissa Betrone Sometimes the pursuit of happiness feels like a punishment. We hear every day about some product or service designed to bring us closer to this feeling–a glade plugin, a diet plan, an app, longer lasting lipstick, a trip to Disney World. Messaging surrounds us, reminding us that happiness is the goal, and…
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What I know for sure
Written by Peg What I know for certain is that we are all Pure and Perfect Love. Life is a journey to remember who we really are as Spirit/Essence. We are not our beliefs or our ego. Those aspects are a vehicle that can enable us to grow into our wholeness. I see our soul…
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Thoughts on Ego
The word ego is thrown around quite a bit and has more than one meaning. It may be most commonly thought of as having self-confidence or self-importance. In psychoanalytic theory, Freud describes the ego as being part of the make-up of our psyche, along with our id and superego. Here the ego mediates between the…
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JFK: Man vs. Myth
Written by Brad As a lover of history, I was excited when Donna and I started talking about traveling to Boston, the birthplace of our nation. I had one abbreviated trip to Boston over 20 years ago and looked forward to learning and seeing more of the city and its historical significance. Our trip did…
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Transitions
I was planning to write about our trip to Boston and include some inspirational quotes from JFK and cool pictures of Boston but I came upon this TED talk on LinkedIn this morning and want to share it instead. The above picture is from Boston, though. The river is a metaphor for the ever alive…
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Forget about enlightenment…
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, Not who you would like to be. Not the saint you’re striving to become. But the being right…
We are all in this together 