Capacity of Your Brain While we have the ability to be calm, contented and centered, our overactive brain can prevent us from being present. The constant chatter we experience can be referred to as “monkey mind.” Unless we are aware of our monkey mind, we can be easily swept away by our thoughts, emotions and […]
The Gift of Self-Compassion
We can be extremely hard on ourselves! Our tendency towards being chronically self-critical has been called the “trance of unworthiness.” In Tara Brach’s, Ph.D., article, “Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness,” she argues that this is not just a personal experience but a societal epidemic of feeling unworthy and deficient. At an early age we […]
Heartfelt Gratitude this Holiday Season
In ancient cultures, the heart was often viewed as the seat of the soul and happiness was directly related to the state of the heart. Western culture gives more credibility to the brain than to the heart. It is commonly assumed that the brain sends more signals to the heart than the heart sends to […]
