My relationship with alcohol has been…complicated. My first drink was when I was 22 years old. I had been taught as a kid that alcohol was dangerous, a tool of the devil. I didn’t really care for it at first. …
Floating to enlightenment? What I discovered inside a floatation tank
In my eighth grade English class, when we had finished our daily assignment, we were allowed to read until the bell rang. To facilitate this bonus learning opportunity, our teacher kept a small display of paperback books at the back …
10 weird places I’ve meditated in the last week
Life has been kinda nuts lately. No sleepy summer for me…between my day job, freelance work, business travel, vacation, a never-ending bathroom renovation and parenting two fast-growing girls, I’ve been left with almost no time to write, much less meditate. …
The silly reasons why people stop meditating
A couple of months ago I wrote about why I chose Transcendental Meditation (TM) to become more self-aware and to jump-start my spiritual growth. That article was shared quite a bit on social media and still gets lots of traffic …
5 things I let go of that doubled my happiness
When my oldest daughter was three, I took her shopping with me one day. Our grocery store offers free balloons to kids, which is brilliant, because anything that can keep your preschooler smiling for 15 minutes while you replenish milk …
A 10-minute meditation for healing chronic pain
One of the unfortunate side-effects of our modern world is that we live most of our lives in our heads. We spend so much time thinking, planning, striving, competing and just getting things done that our bodies — the amazing, …
Can meditation save the world?
“What you think, you become.” — The Buddha “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7 “He who knows his own self, knows God.” – Prophet Mohammed Perhaps the one thing all the world’s great religions have …
Why I chose Transcendental Meditation to jump-start personal growth
When I was a kid, practically every time a music artist accepted a Grammy, he or she would thank the Beatles. Back then, I never really understood why, nor did I really even enjoy the Beatles’ music much at the …