We made it. Learned a few practical approaches to meditation and here, we are at the precipice of actual meditation. Good news – we’ve already done it. There will be one more post going deeper into techniques, but the important part for now, is practice. If harnessing the mind to ground […]
Amy Carroll
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Life is busy. And we hustle. Perpetually running from one phase to the next, then the other. And whether it’s the macaroni the baby just hang-glided across the kitchen, or the dog destroying the bathroom, maybe the work phone still pinging at eight o’clock? There are any number of ways […]
Does it seem paradoxical, the notion that stillness is active? Maybe on the surface. Still, this is the foundation of not only meditation, but perhaps it’s the bed upon which peace rests. I say this knowing full well that meditation is often seen as a relaxation, a sometime escape from […]
Some of us hit this plane recognizing ourselves as square pegs in a sea of round holes. Or at least I did. Anyone else know the feeling? As children, there’s this underlying sense that no matter where we are, or how hard we try, the spaces we’re in were not […]
Not a giant leap. No. Most days are grinds where we whittle our way ahead until the path is smooth enough to take bigger steps. To take a riskier leap. The point of this blog, The Everyday Mind, are the small steps. The ones that take us closer but feel like the end […]
I pull a card daily. Often, more than one. I start in the morning as I’m stumbling out of bed — yes before coffee. It’s easy to pass the dresser, grab a card and contemplate as I go about my routine. I try to find time to pull others. A […]