Train Your Brain: Letting Go
Use letting go whenever you relax, get stress relief, release painful feelings like worry or anger, take things less personally, or drop thoughts that make you and others unhappy.
Train Your Brain: Positive Emotions and Taking in the Good
For most people, the point of living boils down to one or more of these three things: Quality of life, Contribution and Learning. So if you have been wondering what you’re doing here on this earth, you might look to one or more of those categories!
Train Your Brain: Filling Your Body’s Cupboard
Take charge of the biochemistry – in your own body – that is the physical basis of your well-being and your capacity for contemplative practice.
Train Your Brain: Awareness of Your Body
Awareness of the body has been a fundamental practice within most contemplative traditions. The body as a temple, the body as a source of beauty, the body as repulsive, the body as transitory—all of these concepts have had their place in spiritual practices.
Continuity of Mindfulness
Any mindfulness is a good thing. It’s one of the seven factors of enlightenment and the one that catalyzes the others – so the more mindfulness, the better.
Ways to Deepen Householder Practice
The Buddha taught that complete enlightenment was possible for householders and monastics alike. It’s wonderful news that ordinary activities such as going to work, raising a family, driving in traffic, paying bills, raking the leaves, etc. are not inherent barriers to complete freedom, joy, love, and inner peace.
Knowing and Living the Truth: The Perfection of Wisdom
Wisdom (sometimes called “discernment”) is one of the ten “paramis” or perfections of a Bodhisattva, an Awakened person who postpones their ultimate enlightenment to bring all beings to liberation.
The Noble Eightfold Path
The Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha’s Noble Truths, and he described it as the way that leads to the uprooting of the causes of suffering, and thus to increasingly stable and profound peacefulness, wisdom, virtue, and happiness.
Foundations of the Noble Eightfold Path
The Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Noble Truths: the truths of suffering, its cause, its ending, and the path to its ending.
5 Tips to Wire for Compassion
During this time, we could all use more understanding and relating to one another. Did you know that requires a healthy prefrontal cortex (PFC) otherwise we will biologically default to our fight-or-flight response? It’s simply in the way we are wired. Relating...The Caring Quilt Creative Activity
Check out this great creative activity that will deepen and internalize your sense of being cared about – an important inner resource for resilience, happiness, and satisfying relationships, and a key part of the Foundations of Well-Being. This 12-minute video...
Find the Facts
When you find the facts, you’re more able to handle threats and fulfill opportunities, understand others, and make wise choices.
Cultivating Wholesome Motivation
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, “Cultivating Wholesome Motivation”.