Category: Uncategorized

October 20, 2015

How To Find Happiness

We all struggle to find happiness and ultimately it is our journey to find out what that is. The excerpt below was taken from “No Time to Lose” by Pema Chodron, a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. She expresses her insights on how you can start your journey.

WE HAVE A CHOICE

“When someone harms us, they create the cause of their own suffering. They do this by strengthening habits that imprison them in a cycle of pain and confusion. It’s not that we are responsible for what someone else does, and certainly not that we should feel guilty. But when they harm us, we unintentionally become the means of their undoing. Had they looked on us with loving-kindness, however, we’d be the cause of their gathering virtue.

What I find helpful in this teaching is that what’s true for them is also true for me. The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.”

Excerpted from “No Time to Lose” by Pema Chödrön, page 185

August 23, 2015

Family Violence

May 14, 2015

Exercise Your Brain And Your Body!

I have found it to be challenging getting to the gym but once I do it is the best thing for me. It provides such clarity and healthy endorphin’s. Take a look at this article’s piece on how a workout changes your brain.

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-18491/10-ways-a-good-workout-changes-your-brain.html

April 25, 2015

PRACTICE WITHOUT ANY AGENDA

Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone else, and it never occurs to us to feel it for ourselves.

My experience is that by practicing without “shoulds,” we gradually discover our wakefulness and our confidence. Gradually, without any agenda except to be honest and kind, we assume responsibility for being here in this unpredictable world, in this unique moment, in this precious human body.

Excerpted from: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön, pages 140–141