One of the most powerful tools for living a well-regulated, mindful life is the ability to notice, to bring your benevolent observer into the present moment.
While we don’t have the power to control or even anticipate what the next moment may bring into our experience, we do have some say about how we meet these experiences internally. Within this website, I offer tools to support your present-day, benevolent observer and ways to return to a more centered and grounded daily experience.
July Audio Meditation
In this month’s meditation, we continue with the theme of wholeness–our own and that of all our other earth-kin, including the wholeness of the earth itself. If you would prefer to listen with images from nature, here’s the YouTube version of the same meditation:
June 2021 Audio Meditation
Here’s the June 2021 Audio Meditation. It continues our focus on wholeness for this year, as well as our connection with the vast array of earth-kin who share this beautiful planet with us. If you’d rather see the version of the meditation with images from nature, here’s the youtube version:
February 2021 Audio Meditation
Here’s February’s audio meditation, continuing the theme of wholeness of our beautiful planet and all our earth-kin who share it… For those who would rather listen to this meditation while watching images from nature, here’s the YouTube version:
October 2020 Meditation
For those of you who prefer a meditation with images, here’s our YouTube version of this meditation:
840th Week: Offering Steadiness as Subtle Activism
Because of my interest in subtle activism—defined as those inner activities we undertake to support positive collective outcomes—I am always aware of the constant opportunity to contribute to our collective well-being through the attitudes, responses, and qualities we generate internally and emanate into our world in the course of our everyday lives. Just about every…
839th Week: Choosing Frequencies
I recently went on vacation with my sister for our annual time away together. As part of my preparation for the trip, I did a meditation in which I chose the qualities I wanted to resonate with throughout the trip. The primary frequency I chose was “flexibility”. During my daily life, I often choose the…
838th Week: Finding Inspiration in Troubling Times
A while back, I listened to a book by Merlin Sheldrake, called “Entangled Life”. Sheldrake is a specialist in fungi and the book is an inspiring journey through all things fungal. He shares stories about how fungi participate in the “wood-wide web”, creating mycelial networks in collaboration with tree roots to support communication and access…
837th Week: A Practice of Acknowledgement and Appreciation
I’m in the process of putting together my next webinar for professionals and I find myself orienting to the subject of belonging, to the importance of feeling that we belong to something more than our individual selves. One of the practices I’ve followed for a while now is an adaptation of one that comes from…