The Breath is more than biology. It is an energetic and spiritual practice of returning to our Essence, the purest sense of our Self that transcends the mental and the physical and the emotional, that existed and continues to exist before and beyond our wounds. We mostly breathe above the neck: short, shallow, unconscious, survival-oriented [...]
What’s in a pause? A recognition. A refrain. A reset. An opportunity. The amygdala hijack happens at least daily. Since arriving in Barbados, perhaps multiple times a day. Having lost my father last May, I almost couldn’t handle the news that my mother had a stroke just over five months later. It was a relatively [...]
Contrary to popular belief, or intention, spiritual communities are ripe breeding grounds for fear. To borrow from Buddhist teacher and author Tara Brach, fear is the anticipation of future pain. The problem is we don’t always know when we’re being influenced by fear or what we’re even afraid of. Take last November’s local and state [...]
Were he still alive, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be celebrating his 93rd birthday on January 15th. The 3rd Monday of January is designated as a federal holiday in observance of King’s birthday. Although initially opposed, President Ronald Reagan eventually signed it into law in 1983, and the holiday was first observed in [...]
