Archive | Awareness RSS feed for this section

If You’re Feeling Stressed Right Now…

Breathe. I was in the middle of my martial arts training last night, we were doing sword and for some reason I kept feeling something was ‘off’. Then I stopped and I realized I wasn’t breathing. I was holding my breath and releasing it in staccato beats, which was tensing me up. I took a [...]

Conscious Living: The Key to Positive and Lasting Change

Conscious: aware of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts and surroundings; aware of what one is doing. Unconscious : without awareness or cognition; occurring below the level of conscious thought; not consciously planned, realized or done; the unconscious: the part of the mind containing psychic material that is only rarely accessible awareness but has a pronounced [...]

A Moment of Cat Zen

There are lots of things I envy my office cat for. His unhurried schedule for one; if he wants to sleep the day off; he sleeps the day off. His trained office of masseurs for another; all he needs to do to get a good tummy rub is meow. And you get real envious real [...]

Do You Want To Feel Alive?

Hi everyone! I just got back from a wonderful 3 day getaway to the beaches of Bintan. It was the best time I’d had in a long time Before I left, I was feeling stressed, detached, and uninspired. Knowing I’d have the chance to be away, I resolved that I’d practice a timeless technique to [...]

Who Binds You?

This Zen parable is for someone for whom I’ve been talking for a while. A man once went to a Zen master and asked; ‘Master, I must seek liberation.’ The teacher asked, ‘Who binds you?’ The student answered; ‘I do not know. Perhaps I bind myself.’ So the teacher replied, ‘In that case, why seek [...]