Find Your Middle Ground

Tag: being mindful

  • Haiku – discover peace

    Haiku – discover peace

    To discover peace There is no path to travel Or mat to roll out ~ Pause in this moment Breathe into your heart center Feel the blossoming ~ Find your Middle Ground In the highs and lows of life At home with your Self ~ The message is simple, yet the path may take some…

  • Haiku – beyond words

    Haiku – beyond words

    ~ Slow down and witness The silence beyond the words. Find your Middle Ground ~ Find your Middle Ground is about stepping away from stressful days and anxious minds, and taking time to pause. When we are mindful of the present moment and simply allow it to be, we open a door to our natural…

  • The Power of Empathy

    Enjoy this re-post about the power of empathy, especially in difficult relationships. One of our fundamental needs as human beings is to be heard and to be accepted as we are. Take a moment to recall where you were going through a hard time and someone empathized with you. How did it feel? Pretty good…

  • What you Resist Persists

    This is a such a simple, yet powerful message that I keep coming back to again and again. Today I decided to set aside time to understand the WordPress block editor instead of resisting it and clinging to the old version.

  • Quick Relationship Tip

    Its fun to look back and find the right advice on my blog.  Enjoy this re-post! Don’t put your “but” in the face of an angry person. Angry people are in a triggered reactive state. The ability to listen or think logically diminishes with the rise of  strong emotions. The animal or limbic brain takes…

  • Inspiration – Accepting the Whole of our Experience

    “The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the “I” out of the experience. We pretend that…

  • The Power of Empathy

    Enjoy this re-post about the power of empathy, especially in difficult relationships. oooOooo One of our fundamental needs as human beings is to be heard and to be accepted as we are. Take a moment to recall a time where you were going through a hard time and someone empathized with you. How did it…

  • Moving into Stillness

    “Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.” ~ Erich…

  • Boost Your Karma for the New Year

      Boosting your Karma is a choice. As you move towards the New Year and new possibilities, why not choose kindness and connection. Watch what happens! This is such a cool list to share 🙂 Keep your word. Show respect to everyone you encounter. Be a good friend. Look for the best in everyone. Show…

  • Meditation – Finding an Anchor that Works for You

    A lot has been written in the past few years about Mindfulness Meditation.  This Buddhist based practice has become popular here in the west through the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program founded by Jon Kabat Zinn. Research clearly shows that meditating changes the neural pathways of the brain and aids in relieving stress and…

  • The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts

    The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts

    A re-post this morning for all of us who could do with seeing a bigger perspective. oo0O0oo I do admire Alan Watts and his edgy take on our awakening to what is real and what matters. Don’t hold on too hard. Learn to let go and let be. Be curious, open and enjoy this lip…

  • Thoughts on Incessant Thinking

    Thoughts on Incessant Thinking

    This is a re-blog of an earlier post. I dedicate it to all of us who are getting tangled up in our thinking today. oo0O0oo In the highs and lows of life do you find yourself stuck in over analyzing and incessant thinking? When the mind gets tangled up?  This quote from Eckhart Tolle catch…

  • Inspiration for the Lows of Life

    This is a re-post for those of you who may be facing challenges right now. From my heart to yours. 💕 oo0O0oo I walked two of the dogs this morning along our road and stopped a while at the little waterfall on Paper Mill. You can see how the sunlight captures the moving water and…

  • Flight from the Shadow

    Flight from the Shadow

    “There was a man who was so disturbed by the sight of his own shadow and so displeased with his own footsteps that he determined to get rid of both. The method he hit upon was to run away from them. So he got up and ran. But every time he put his foot down…

  • Reflection – Live your Own Life

    These words came to me in a conversation yesterday with someone who feels she must rescue her adult daughter from a difficult marriage and challenging home situation. “You cannot live her life for her. Can you let her live her life? … and live your own life?” Perhaps you can relate to this if you…

  • Reflection – The Two People Living in You

    Photo Credit: Ariko Inaoka “Two people have been living in you all of your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, and calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying I…