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.

669th Week: Accessing Options

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I just listened to an interview with Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on the NPR show,  On Being, with Krista Tippett.  The interview centered around Sheryl’s and Adam’s new book about Sheryl’s husband’s death and Adam’s work with resilience.  At the end of the interview, Sheryl said that it is really about “post traumatic growth”,
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667th Week: Practicing “Ahimsa”, Harmlessness

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One of the truly challenging practices for many of us is to live with harmlessness, called “ahimsa” in Sanskrit.  A question that arises is, how do we engage the world actively without causing harm?  I remember someone once saying that the Buddha said it’s impossible not to cause harm in many small ways, simply by…
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