** Morning Intention: To see the mind as a tool and to use it as such The mind is like a knife. You have to keep it sharp, but you can’t use just any surface for a whet-stone. If you let the mind make contact with every random distraction that comes along, it will wear […]
Read More Morning Intention: The Mind Is A Tool** Morning Intention: To see pain as something I have a relationship with So much advice these days seems to be about telling people to cut things out. Cut toxic people out. Cut toxic food out. Be deliberate in creating the life you want. It’s good to see people living for themselves in ways previous […]
Read More Morning Intention: A Better Relationship With Pain** Morning Intention: To work with physical pain by moving my awareness before I move my body We live in a highly anesthetic culture. Some scientists are starting to suspect that our over-reliance on everything from aspirin to opioids is starting to erode our capacity for empathy. Whether they ever can prove that on a […]
Read More Morning Intention: Pain And Awareness** Morning Intention: To see compassion as “staying with” whatever I am doing We have a hard time seeing things through to the end. It’s not just the projects and relationships we abandon as soon as they get difficult. It’s also life itself, which we tend not to be present for, though it is so […]
Read More Morning Intention: Compassion As “Staying-With”** Morning Intention: To ask myself, before I speak, whether speaking would improve on the silence We talk too much. I don’t know how else to say it, because in the end, I think it’s that simple: there is a limit to the peace of mind we can develop that is set by the quantity of […]
Read More Morning Intention: Improving On The Silence
Paul Weinfield 