Good Changes

06/18/2025

Looking for a way to stay engaged in turbulent times? Meditation doesn't replace action, but it helps me connect to something bigger so I can keep acting!

Join my four-day fundamentals course June 21-24. Offered on a sliding scale basis, and ideal for beginners who want to establish a practice or experienced students seeking a refresher course.

In this course you will learn:

• Concentration with breath or sound
• How to work with the thinking mind
• Mindfulness of the Body
• Awareness of thoughts & emotions
• The importance of self-compassion
• Common myths of meditation
• The art of beginning again
• Healthy expectations for practice

https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/intro-to-meditation

03/01/2024

I love, therefore I exist.

Perhaps what’s making me sick is not the lack of love I have received but the love I have ceased to give.

02/29/2024

Most of us are doing more chores than ever these days. While author and designer Ingrid Fetell Lee hasn’t figured out how to get rid of them — not yet, at least — she has collecte…

08/30/2023

Can't stop thinking mean thoughts about yourself? Researchers and psychologists share how to break the cycle.

08/24/2023

Researchers are exploring the impact of interactions with strangers and casual acquaintances. Their findings shed light on how seemingly fleeting conversations affect your happiness and well-being.

08/23/2023

05/01/2023

It is never too late to heal.

Like most of his generation, John Wenzel returned from World War II with no interest in sharing memories. Just shy of his 100th birthday, he found he could no longer ignore the past.

02/23/2023

This is an example of a life well lived.

Raghavan Iyer, whose books and spirited teaching spread the cuisine, is using his last days to get familiar comfort foods to patients like himself.

02/19/2023

We meditate to get better at life, not to simply get better at meditating.

02/14/2023

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

--Derek Wolcott