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.
Using Mindfulness for Recentering Meditation
Excerpts from “Getting Through the Day” Followed by: Using Mindfulness for Recentering – a Meditative Exercise When you are overwhelmed by the past, how can you reclaim your present-day awareness? This question comes up over and over again in the lives of abuse survivors. Being able to recenter yourself and handle life’s challenges effectively is…
A Derivation of Tonglen Meditation – A Form of Subtle Activism
One of the practices I have committed to over the years is now called “subtle activism”. Subtle activism involves any activity we undertake to support positive change that involves prayer, guided imagery, directing intentions to local or global situations, etc. One of the primary subtle activism practices I have used for many years is a…
Another Version of Tonglen Meditation
Tonglen is a process that invites us to breathe in our own suffering and that of countless others in our world, and then breathe out ease, comfort, peace. Through identifying the negativity and distress around us – recognizing that it is part of the human experience and, as such, not separate from us, along with…