Tag: meditation

Meditation for March 21st Teaching Lessons We all have teachers. Some are traditional teachers, such as counselors, parents, older people, therapists, and many other educators we encounter. Others are people passing through our lives, or strangers who say something that changes our path. Hopefully, as we live our lives, we can become teachers in other […]

Meditation for March 19th 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. When we live in the past, we are depressed, and when we live in the future, we are anxious. We concentrate on the task […]

Meditation for March 18th Everyone is Irish Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day in America, and everyone is proud of their 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 and the Catholic […]

Meditation for March 17th 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, the way we hang out changes. We take shorter time segments of our lives and schedule coffee and tea dates, maybe spend an hour at the […]

Meditation for March 16th Social Filter As society blossomed beyond civilization, etiquette and manners became a way for humans to live in proximity to one another and get along. As time went on, some polite ways fell by the wayside, and others seem outdated, but we follow those guidelines anyway. We don’t say everything that […]

Meditation for March 15th 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. Nowadays, people in the punk […]

   Meditation for March 13th Daylight Saving Time It is that time of year again when Americans are setting their clocks one hour forward, except if you are in Arizona, which was also the last state to recognize Martin Luther King Blvd Day. Hawai’i also doesn’t observe DST, but it’s a sovereign nation, so let […]

  Meditation for March Being Invisible A lot of people crave attention. People walk around in funky clothes or ride tall bikes, wearing top hats and a curled mustache, so that people will notice them. We talk loudly at parties, then pout if there is competition or we aren’t getting the center stage. But why do […]