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The Power of Mindfulness Rituals
In this 12-minute video, I share ideas about how you can boost your practice by ritualizing everyday tasks like washing dishes, driving your car, or eating a meal. Mindfulness rituals are a great way to experience how mindfulness can literally change your life.
Some Thoughts About the Afterlife
What lies beyond the door of death is, as long as we’re alive, a mystery beyond our perception. That seems to be baked into the human condition. But what we can see, if we choose to look, is the effect of our beliefs on the way we act towards ourselves and the world around us.
Meditation for Type A Personalities
In 2022, Jungian analyst and author Gary Trosclair interviewed me for his website, The Healthy Compulsive Project, which serves the OCPD community. Many of the ideas we explored in this interview are useful for meditators of all backgrounds and levels of experience.
If There Is No Soul, Then What Is Reborn?
It's one thing to accept that the atoms that form our bodies are recycled, but what about consciousness? As promised, what follows is my own view of these questions, which departs somewhat from Buddhist orthodoxy.
Is Mindfulness Anti-Christian?
There is nothing about mindfulness that is inherently antithetical to the tenets of Christian faith. If anything, mindfulness practice opens us to a deeper appreciation of the mystery of life. But for some Christians, that in itself may pose a problem.
Letting Go of Certitude
The sum of what we don’t know is infinitely greater than what we do know. This truth can liberate us from the arrogance of certitude, especially when certitude becomes the rationale for injustice, cruelty, exploitation, and violence.