Healthy Mind Heart Body

Tag: experience

  • Love and Heartbreak

    Having your heart broken is an immensely valuable experience. I appreciate the idea of broken, because it has the immediate connotation of being fixable. My heart didn’t die, it didn’t end, it’s just broken. It will heal. It’s only broken because I over-exerted it. In fact, the extent to which I experience love and experience…

  • 3 Methods of Emotional Preservation

    It seems to me I’ve never stopped feeling anything. Healing seems to only ever take two forms. We can either distance ourselves from the emotion, which feels like temporary hiding, or find something to drown it out. This poses a unique problem as I retract from the New Age touchy-feely man I was to focus…

  • Simple Truths

    Often times, the simple questions in life are the hardest to answer. Ideally, our minds are motivated and excited by the inherent irony and challenge of these basic concepts. However, sometimes we find ourselves running in place, struggling to make progress because we forget to address some of the simple truths that govern our potential…

  • Words Create Worlds

    It is existentially frustrating to imagine that each of us is running around the world, our own individually perceived worlds, trying to connect and communicate with each other. We have developed a system of communication to elicit feelings, thoughts and ideas that we wish to share. However, many times words don’t suffice to convey what…

  • Cultivate Equanimity

    Cultivate Equanimity

    If your mind becomes firm like a rock And no longer shakes In a world where everything is shaking Your mind will be your greatest friend And suffering will not come your way. -poem from the Therigatha Steadiness and strength of mind in the midst of stress, chaos and uncertainty of life, is not a…

  • Vulnerability and Connection

    In my continuing efforts and struggle to make sense of my very own existence, I invariably return to remarkably rudimentary, yet paramount questions. Why am I here? What must I do? And, how may I actualize these concepts, and increase the ratio of pleasure to pain in my life? My wonder, pursuit and search for…