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Having the last few posts building up to and then encompassing meditation, begs the question, how did we do? If you have any thoughts insights or questions, please email me at carrollhypnotherapy <at> gmail.com. I would love to hear from you. Last week we arrived at meditation, this week let’s go […]

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 […]

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 […]

Can we agree that sleep has a profound impact on our wakeful state? It makes sense. We might also agree that sleep, and lack thereof, informs our physical, mental and emotional well-being. So yes, sleep is a key to wellness within our everyday lives. Agreed? Great! So who prioritizes sleep […]

The biggest part of change, is flexibility.  It’s embracing the cycles of life, sometimes gentle, sometimes turbulent, and learning to trust their flow as alignment with the something greater than ourselves.  Easy to say, sure 😉 But how do we go about finding this flow and what does it mean […]

Life happens in tiny steps.  If we think about it, everything we do, we make a decision to do. Little choices that we make everyday, comprise an entire life.  An entire life. If we put it like that, life sounds dwarfing. But if we look at something that might seem insignificant at […]

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 […]