Mindfulness
This World Meditation Day
In recognition of World Meditation Day on May 21st, I’m curating recent finds from my own practice. I started a daily practice in 2016 that turned into five years of daily sitting. Eight years later, meditation, along with movement and physical training, have been crucial for getting through a decade of health issues and Crohn’s Disease, and provide a direct through line to deep remission. Mind...
We frequently hear and say these things that are supposed to be motivating and inspiring (or at least make us feel better about the choices made in the quest for happiness) but upon examination are simply glib sound bites designed to take you away from the best parts of being alive.
“Life only feels short in retrospect - when we look back and reminisce about the time that has passed - it is act...
A vendor I frequent at the weekly farmer’s market was emphatically describing how healthy I looked, “amazing!” and recounting how frightened she was for me a few months back when I visited her booth while recovering from complications from major surgery, “like the walking dead!”. She espoused the advice she had once read, “live each day like it’s your last”. In the moment I considered each wor...
367 sessions, 188 hours, 365 consecutive days of the original biohack.
It started as a three month experiment—I remembered reading a Wired article while on a flight in 2006 about The Dalai Lama and a neuroscientist, Richard Davidson, who hooked several Tibetan monks up to an EEG machine and scanned their brain as they meditated. Since then, more studies have shown how the brain changes with co...