Heart-seeking meditation
One of my favorite meditations is to seek the perception of my heartbeat. If it is challenging to find, there are two things I find helpful. 1) Tactics: Anything that gets the blood pumping or alters normal flow, like pushups or body squats, the rest interval between long breathholds, or inversions. The lower the cardiac…
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Wine tasting and emotions
Remember the last time you went wine tasting? The differences among the wines can be so subtle. Those who spend a life inquiring about those differences end up being able to name a grape, region, year, and sometimes even the winery from anywhere in the world. We have the same opportunity of inquiry with the…
Read MorePresent to the process
A question worth adking regularly… Am I doing anything in my life just to get it done or am I present to the process of doing? Because the former misses the point and the latter is living.
Read MoreBenefit of trust
You’ve put work in. You have developed the ability to listen when you focus. And the path is neverending. The five people we spend the most time with is good training ground. Game time is when needs are unmet or when we’re with people who don’t get the benefit of a foundation of trust like…
Read MoreGenerous tension
When you shoot a basketball, there is a tension you feel while the ball is in the air. An expectation and hope that is goes in. A release of the tension when it does. Expectation brings tension. Making a promise builds expectation, and therefore, tension. A generous tension, as long as we follow through on…
Read MoreInvesting in health
Many people who sell a health service, like chiropractic, struggle with “taking people’s money”. I want to offer a shift in wording (perspective). Rather than taking their money, we are offering them a place to invest their money. Most bank accounts give little to no retur Investing in a service provided by a skilled professional…
Read MoreWhen we value the needs of others and act in ways that help them get their needs met, we all win. Having the presence and skills to choose what to share, how to share it, and when not to share empowers us to contribute authentically and use judgment regarding the aspects of our authenticity. Raising…
Read MoreThe stimulus and story of pain
Consciously, pain is a stimulus. Suffering is story. Just like watching our thoughts drift away in meditation, we can watch whatever story our minds create about the pain drift away as well. This is delicate with chronic pain since the body is so efficient at compensating. There are times when it serves us to let…
Read MorePromising tension
Expectation brings tension. When you shoot a basketball, there is a tension you feel while the ball is in the air. An expectation is born, a hope that the ball will go in. A release of the tension occurs when it does. The moment the ball goes through the basket, there is certainty that the…
Read MoreThe gift of held space
Held space is a gift that can be challenging to give and also rarely consciously received in the moment that it’s happening. The silent practice of allowing a person to thrash with their thoughts, hunt for clarity in their emotional labyrynth, and test a perspective without passing judgment or jumping to solutions is often the…
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