Month: March 2016

Meditation for March 21st, 2016 Knowledge Makes You Dumb People are thirsty for knowledge. For us more enlightened creatures, we absorb as much as we can from books, teachers and by just watching the world around us. We want to understand what is happening, why it is happening and how it is happening. We look […]

Meditation for March 20th, 2016 Teaching Lessons We all have teachers. Some of them are traditional teachers like professors, parents, councilors, older people, therapists and many other educator roles we encounter. Others are people passing through our lives and do or say that one thing that changes our path. Hopefully as we live our lives […]

Meditation for March 18th, 2016 This Moment In the path to mindfulness, we try to live moment by moment. We focus on our breath, ignoring thoughts about the past and the future. We concentrate on the task at hand instead of why you have to do the task or what the completion of the task […]

Meditation for March 17th, 2016 Everyone is Irish Today is St. Patrick’s Day in America and everyone is proud of his or her Irish ancestry for a night. This pride comes in the form of drinking till you pass out and dressing up like a leprechaun, loving the Pogues and suddenly being violently into soccer […]

Meditation for March 16th, 2016 Missing Out When we are young we hang out with our friends all the time, but as we grow older and start careers and families, our way of hanging out changes. We take shorter time segments of our lives and schedule coffee and tea dates, maybe spend an hour at […]

Meditation for March 15th, 2016 Social Filter As society blossomed out of civilization, etiquette and manners became a way for humans to live in close proximity with each other and get along. As time went on, some polite ways fell from the wayside and others seem outdated, but we follow those guidelines anyway. We don’t […]

Meditation for March 14th, 2016 Mixing Harmony with Chaos Rock & Roll bands have embraced the mixture of harmony & chaos for years with band names like Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, Screaming Trees, Billy Joel, Screeching Weasel (actually weasels do screech when tossed into bathtubs and toilets), Iron Butterfly and others. Now days people of […]

   Meditation for March 12th, 2016Daylight Savings Time It is that time of year again when Americans are setting their clocks one hour forward, except if you are in Arizona, but they were also the last state to recognize Martin Luther King Blvd Day. This means more light in our day and the upcoming changes […]