Inner peace or bust
Meditation: Headspace, Transforming Anger #5Length: 11 minutes Where: Bedroom, MichiganHow It Felt: Daydreamy- I floated away… These Transforming Anger sessions are good! This one was about recognizing that feeling anger can be a good thing. For instance, when we feel our anger in a time of injustice, it can motivate us to feel more empathy…
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Meditation: Headspace, Utter StillnessLength: 6 minutes Where: Bedroom, Michigan How It Felt: Refreshing Who Joined Me: Steve Six posts to go, including this one! My brain is already working on next year’s experiment: Pure Joy. I want to live a year saying “yes!” to the things that bring me joy and “no” to the things…
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Meditation: Headspace, Transforming Anger #3Length: 11 minutes Where: Couch in the sitting room, MichiganHow It Felt: WonderfulWho Joined Me: Steve Writing this on Xmas Eve! Got the house ready, Christmas dinner picked up for tomorrow (catered, because I do not love cooking enough to cook all day only to eat in twenty minutes, nor does…
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Meditation: Calm, 7 Days of Managing Stress: The Art of Surrender Length: 12 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los Angeles How It Felt: Like clarity This year has been an incredible journey. I’ve learned so much, and continue to learn. I’m extremely grateful that I was given the opportunity these past two years, while life has slowed…
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Meditation: Balance, Foundations: Day 7Length: 5 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Relaxing Day 7 of the Foundations program was an intro to the body scan technique. Obviously this is something I’ve done many times before, but I’m enjoying getting back to some simple basics for a bit. We only scanned the top of…
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Meditation: Balance, Foundations: Day 6Length: 5 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los Angeles How It Felt: Fun!Who Joined Me: Steve I love meditating with Steve. He meditates every day and so do I, but we are so often on wildly different schedules that we only get to do it together from time to time. There is something…
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Meditation: Calm, 7 Days of Happiness: Learn to Let GoLength: 13 minutesWhere: Office/ Guest Room, Los AngelesHow It Felt: I was smiling so hard my face hurt! Happy. Introvert day. Enjoying turning my brain off. (Though at the moment, showing a resident in my building the rec room space- the (HOA) president’s work is never…
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Meditation: Calm, 7 Days of Happiness: Practice GratitudeLength: 12 minutesWhere: Comfy Living Room Chair, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Nice. Sleepy. I paused on the Chopra series I was doing for now, since I have those meditations forever (a Christmas gift from Steve) and I only have Calm for a few more months. I may as…
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Meditation: Balance, RelaxLength: 5 minutes Where: Office/Guest Room, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Like a release Yesterday was one of those tricky days where you really need to rest and turn your brain off (and get off your foot, in my case!) but there is too much to do, so you end up half trying to…
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Meditation: Yoga With Adriene, 7 Min Meditation to Start Your Day Length: 7 minutes Where: Office/ Guest Room, Los Angeles How It Felt: Short & Sweet No mental energy for this blog today, so let me just say: I’m starting the Yoga With Adriene calendar for October a few days late, so yesterday I did…
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My Year of Meditation 