Dealing with Life’s Disappointments
So sometimes life just doesn’t go according to plan. This year has been a prime example for that. Let me give you a personal example, I had a deep Vedic Rounding retreat scheduled (4 days of deep work..) and a week out the updated border restrictions meant I had to cancel it (and I know […]
Constant comparison – A by-product of the modern world
I was speaking with a friend the other day who is interested to go to a Tony Robbins seminar as she wants to see if she can get more extroverted. I asked her why she wants to be more extroverted. Her reply: hmm just think I’d get more out of life if I was more […]
A list of why not to meditate and how many people are truly happy?
You’d never guess what I am going to share with you, no not reasons to meditate. Reasons not to meditate. That’s right. Someone asked me the other day, Rich is there any reason that people should not meditate? My reply. Yes. And here’s the reasons: You’re 100% happy with all aspects of your life You […]
Can we have equanimity in such as times as these?
Short answer, yes. But most of you know me by now, short answers are not my cup of tea for such important ponderings… When I went to my first Vipassana to learn meditation it was perhaps the most hard thing I had done on a physical pain level (sitting cross legged for 10.5 hours a day) and […]
Surrender & Acceptance
A gift, A truth So powerful and simple yet so hard for us to grasp Surrender Are you weakness? No the opposite. I have no need for control That allows for freedom As I know I have no control of what lies beyond my being So I accept that all is changing every moment evolving […]
Playing the victim continually creates victim outcomes
One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is empowerment. Empowerment over our own lives. Yet this can also be quite a challenge. For many of us, we feel life is or has been happening to us. Life seems to be a challenge and a strain. The situations we have been through can lead […]
Every Moment Can Be A Point Of Resolution
The beauty of Autumn is upon us, the heat of summer has passed. And we are fast approaching the end of the first 1/4. And for many with it, a look back at our resolutions as a thing to reconsider for next year (according to research, over 80% of resolutions are already faltered). Yet, every moment presents us […]
WIll meditation help me with my anxiety?
Yes. How? it calms the nervous system (short answer, read on for longer answer…) Anxiety is essentially the brain trying to help you, it’s a part of the survival reflex of the the human nervous system to produce fear in order or act in times of threat. However, with anxiety this fear is not due […]
Meditation hack – create that habit
We all know how hard it is to create habits. Hard right? So easy to break but soo hard to lock in to those habits you know you want and deserve. Shall we blame it on time, life, kids? Sure we can. But at the end of the day, life’s up to us. Simple. We […]
If God pulled up in a uber and said “hey want out of here”, there were times I would have gladly jumped in
Heavy call. I know, and I do not say it lightly. Now I know for some folk, that concept seems hard to fathom, I have friends that seriously have no concept of mental illness, like “don’t get how people get depressed”, just something that is not and has never been in their world. Is kinda […]