Your Intentions are Not Finite: A Reflection on Resolutions in the New Year
Create authentic intentions. Your time is not elusive. Nor is it tongue-tied to your obligations, or your time and place in your stage of life. Our underlying thoughts, feelings, or sensations in our bodies are really about finding our authenticity and our feelings of worth. Worth translates to time, space, and ultimately to effort. Ready for some radical thinking? Those intentions don’t necessarily need to be set exclusively for accomplishment this year, right now. Give these mindful practices a try–whatever you need to finally hear your authentic self’s needs.
Winter Solstice: Embracing Hope in the Season of Rest and Reflection
Our ritual reminded me of the natural wonder of cultivating seeds of hope through patience, rest, and contemplation in the darkness. Once embraced, hope emerges towards the light enveloped in a new breath of renewal and life.
Music Is Magic: Curating a Road Trip Playlist to Awaken Connection
Do you believe in magic? Curate a playlist for your next road trip: When the perfect song roots in my brain, a transformation begins. In those few wide-awake minutes, the slothy mindlessness of the mundane in my life is paused. Time warps from sticky stop-motion to a dreamy, panoramic film as the new vibe kicks in. In life, we don’t feel that just-right moment right away–we wake up to it. I add songs to my playlists that draw me in, building into the moment. And like a favorite slice-of-life film, I let the embers glow as the moment fades and the feeling is left to seep into the experience of my road trip.
The Glow Within: Seeking Intention of Heart in a Weary World
Many of my friends have mentioned not feeling in the spirit of the season of light, and I felt a sadness and longing from them. I wondered what was missing, so I set out with curiosity and reflection. For me, the season of light is an amplified opportunity to reach within and to shine love out to others with my whole heart. The last place I imagined I’d shine my glow of love was the grocery store.
Shaking the Tree: A Meditation on Compassion
While summer beckons us to deconstruct the schedule and play, fall reminds us to slow down and reconnect. It’s the season of being willing to step back inside to welcome our deepest thoughts, to nurture our emotions and reactions—feel them, then breathe them out again. Let in only those thoughts that serve you with love. What if you paused this season to reconnect with your true self and served your inner compassion? How would that change how you show up for others?
The Remarkable Thing About Experiencing Fun
Do you know how to have fun anymore? Are you a wayside participant in play—an observer sitting on the sidelines watching others engage? You’re not ordinary if you’re the best version of yourself. Let’s revisit your favorite version of yourself and remember how to experience blissful joy again.