Healthy Mind Heart Body

Tag: love

  • 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…

  • The Many Colors of Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara is beautiful. A quick Google search or peek outside my window reveals cloudless skies over the Pacific Ocean and prominent Santa Ynez Mountains, streets lined with palms and purple flowers, Spanish Colonial buildings with whitewashed walls and orange clay tile shingles, and happy, healthy, eccentric Southern Californians with fire in their hearts and…

  • My Dhyana Self-Knowledge

    I am grateful to be feeling so much today. I have been particularly inspired by learning about Dhyana, or meditation of yoga. It actually brought me to tears this morning and I’ve been in a slow, positive, steady emotional recovery since. I am presently feeling refreshed with appreciation for my own self-knowledge. “…once it has…

  • Never Let Go

    A good friend sent me an article about letting go. Letting go sounds liberating but dangerous, which is not how I’m accustomed to living. I’m as much in love with my future as I am with today, if not more. I like working, learning, growing, building and progressing. I like the feeling of strength and…

  • 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…