“That voice of our ego is little more than an annoying roommate.” Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul We don’t have to understand neuroscience in order to work skillfully with thoughts. In meditation, we don’t suppress thoughts and we also don’t follow
Compulsive Intrusive Thinking
Friends With Your Mind, How To Stop Torturing Yourself With Your Thoughts by Lynn Fraser Publication February 2017 Compelling thoughts have the power to take us away from the present moment. They trigger feelings of fear and anxiety, showing up
Difficult Times
These are challenging times for many people. When there is anything going on in the world and/or our personal lives that feels threatening to our safety, several things tend to happen. Our minds get involved with intrusive, catastrophic thinking. We
During Silence
Join us for a free online retreat December 3rd. Details here: http://nondualinquiry.com/monthly-workshops/silent-retreat-online/ Setting aside a period of time for meditative silence often goes better with some advance logistics planning. Before you start: If you are in a household with other people,
Learn to Meditate!
Meditation is all over the news these days. Yet another study proving the health benefits of meditation for everything from asthma and heart disease to the brain. The Dalai Lama. Olympic athletes and business executives who meditate. Goldie Hawn’s Mind-Up program
Healing Trauma with Breathing and Yoga
Mental health is on a continuum. Many people experience anxiety in our culture today. PTSD, high levels of anxiety and clinical depression are serious diseases which require treatment by qualified medical professionals. Yoga, breathing and meditation are complementary treatments that can help
Trauma and Addiction Scott Kiloby talk
Wonderfully clear talk Scott Kiloby gave at the Science and Nonduality Conference. See my notes below for some of the highlights for me as I was listening. His addiction was directly linked to trauma. He was a sensitive gay kid
Free Daily Healing Practices
Youtube Invitation Video My initial invitation was to join me for fifteen minutes a day from December 1st until New Years Day (2016) for a healing practice. The small core group of participants and I love it so much and
Brain Research
Here are five important things we learned about the brain in 2014. The brain may be highly affected by the gut This year, neuroscientists began to develop a deeper understanding of just how the gut microbiome, as it is called,
Where are your troubles?
What Is Your Main Priority In Life – To Awaken or to Improve? This is a post from Scott Kiloby. I’ve copied it here because it is so clear and simple a way to work with thought. Lynn We live