Healthy Mind Heart Body

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  • Pain Avoidance

    All beings must experience suffering and pain at some point in their lives. – Buddha ~ Dukkha Do not avoid pain. Your effort would be misplaced. Pain and suffering are inevitable. Choose your pain wisely. — Geoffrey Hale Everyone wants to live a care-free, happy and easy life… What pain do you want? What are…

  • Efficiency and Love

    Deeply rooted in the core of each of us, is the desire for love. In this desire we find our true identity, our reason for being, our heart, our soul, our essence. In most of us, our desire for love has been distorted, buried or even purposely brushed under the rug. Pressures of life, careers,…

  • Assumptions Distort Love

    “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” -Henry Winkler When we make assumptions about a loved one we close ourselves; we are no longer open to see them as they are. We can only see them as we think they are. The fulfillment for love, connection and intimacy are diminished because we are no longer having…

  • Love and Understanding

    “Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but Love. And when you Love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.” -Thich Nhat…

  • Consciousness | Growing, Pain, Healing and Joy

    “We cannot go back. We can only go forward.” -M. Scott Peck, M.D. Here in-lies a bittersweet truth of evolving into consciousness. Once we see, we can never unsee. We can never go back. Find comfort in knowing that ignorance is, in fact, not bliss. Since we cannot go back, we must grow up. Growing…

  • The Pleasure of Simply Being

    ‎”Whenever you try to exert control over the natural ebb and flow of life, you end up either frustrated or disappointed– because it can’t be controlled. Whenever you apply effort to trying to relax and slow down, you produce the opposite effect. Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its…