Buddha Belly Healing Space

02/17/2026

What activities are you trying engage with to keep you from being your phone? What brings joy into your life?

Me: books, embroidery, being out in nature, some good TV shows, playing games and interacting with my 2 year old, relearning guitar 🎸

I’m not always successful and it’s hard to break the addictive patterns as it relates to our phones but it’s necessary and very worth it when you step away!

Parents - we need to be better role models on healthy technology patterns.

01/06/2026

I searched for Buddha - the wise one who sees and knows the deep nature of reality, the one who sees the cause and remedy of inner suffering, the one who walks in peace, serenity, and liberation. I searched for Buddha but I could not find him. I only found this enlightenment inside myself.

I searched for Guanyin - the mother of universal and indiscriminate compassion, the one with motherly resolve to liberate all her children from suffering. I searched for Guanyin but could not find her. I only found this boundless compassion inside myself.

I searched for Jesus - the one who unites vulnerability, courage, compassion, and truth‑telling, calls us to shed false identities and live with integrity and wholeness, refuses to live inside inherited scripts, and breaks from the internal “empires” of fear, shame, and domination. I searched for Jesus but I could not find him. I only found this liberative spirit inside myself.

I searched for Mary - the one of generative courage - the human capacity to welcome transformation, nurture the not‑yet, and hold grief without collapsing; the one symbolizes radical consent to change, the fierce tenderness that stays present to suffering, and the quiet power that midwives new forms of life into the world. I searched for Mary but I could not find her. I only found this generative courage inside myself.

I searched for Socrates - the one who questions, the one who investigate all things curiously, deeply, critically and introspectively; the one who ordered his life according to virtue and love. I searched for Socrates but I could not find him. I only found this wisdom inside myself.

I searched for Dr. King - the one who would not claim freedom for himself as long as his fellow human beings languished in isolation, suffering and oppression; the one who fearlessly championed the cause of the victimized, marginalized, maltreated, and forgotten. I searched for Dr. King but I could not find him. I only found this calling inside myself.

I searched for Rumi - the one of radical interior openness, the one who turns inward without collapsing, to meet one’s own depths with curiosity rather than fear, and to translate that encounter into compassion for the world; the one who goes inward, not to escape the world, but to return with a heart capable of holding it. I searched for Rumi but I could not find him. I only found this inner flame inside myself.

I searched for God - the fundamental nature of reality, the ultimate ground of all being, the primordial essence of all that is, the wholeness and completeness at the heart of all things. I searched for God out there somewhere but I could not find this God. I only found this ultimate reality as the nature of all things and the essence of what I am.

Jim Palmer

12/29/2025

Winds are fierce today where I live. The howling surges are felt on my skin and I hear them interact with the trees, the remaining leaves of that fell from their branches from the late autumn fall. The wind breezing through the rooftops add some eerie ominous acoustics. Today’s wind came some warmth this morning that left us with a crisp breeze this evening.

Wind reminds me that change is inevitable. Things never stay the same. Sometimes it’s gentle wind guiding you to stop and listen; sometimes it’s a bluster that catches you off guard; other times it’s a storm that forces you to stop and take a deeper learning/appreciation.

When I first started this page, I had set an intention to create with an open heart. I am forever a seeker and that will always be something you can find with me. In the vane of change, there will be some ‘updates’ in the coming year that I hope are meaningful in your journey unlocking your deeper inner truths of your mind, your body, your Spirit.

12/12/2025

Happy 12.12!

Nothing can stop the Light that’s coming…✨💫☀️

My favorite Christmas hymn ‘O Come O Come Emmanuel’ and it is a reminder that though we have entered extended hours of darkness in winter, there is an assurance of the return of Light coming soon. In our darkest moments lies hope, anticipation, reverence; a reckoning that even when it is difficult to see, a bright Light shines for us and guides us in Love.

'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel' is Enya's rendition of the traditional Christian hymn for Advent, featured on her 2008 holiday album 'And Winter Came...'. This ly...

12/05/2025

First pre-winter accumulating snowfall

☃️🥶🧤🧣🪾

11/25/2025

“Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love”

- St. Teresa of Avila

11/20/2025

Gratitude is a gateway for growth, joy, and peace.

11/04/2025

Remembering

We all hold stories of events, and things that have happened to us big or small. We lose parts of ourselves in the stories, and we lose our essence and connection to our truest self.

There is a scene from The Lion King that really hits at this so well where Simba stumbles into Rafiki in the grasslands. Simba annoyed says ‘stop following me’ and who are you,’ to which Rafiki responds ‘who are you?’ Simba head down low responds ‘I thought I knew now I’m not so sure’. Rafiki then suggests he knows he is ‘Mufasa’s boy’ and they go on a journey of re-discovery, Rafiki’s wise humor paving the way with ultimately with Simba running back to Pride Rock!

In the season of Autumn, we see how life retreats and sheds skins, things that no longer serve in order for preparation of colder weather. Nature retreats into her core, back her roots. It is a reminder that life changes, things that served you once may no longer serve you now. Is there anything holding you back from fully being ‘You’? What stories no longer serve a purpose? What limiting beliefs are present for you that keep you from remembering? It’s a good time to let them go. The tree is still a tree, even when the leaves fall; those leaves are now past stories as we wait for her new leaves in Spring.

09/10/2025

08/22/2025

One goal I had for this year is to pick up an old friend 👉🎸

It’s not easy, but it’s not as hard as I thought it would be. I’m focusing on the stuff I didn’t care to learn as a teen, like chords, progressions, etc.

I have to say that I am so grateful I did. I don’t always hit it right but I love learning the songs I love. And when it does hit — 🤘🎸

Take the first step. You never know how far you can go if you refuse to start.

08/08/2025

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

-John Wesley

07/30/2025

In a world where you can be anything, don’t be a jerk.

Bee kind 🐝🌻