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January 11, 2023

What Meditation Does To The Brain and How it Can Help Ease Anxiety

How can meditation affect anxiety? If you find yourself struggling with it, you're not alone. Aside from Ukraine for obvious reasons, the United States comes in second place among the top 10 countries with the highest rates of anxiety in the world. Let's talk about what meditation does to the brain! Of all of the […]

January 5, 2023

Why Is Meditation Important?

If you have been around for a while, you will hear me talk a lot about meditation and its benefits. If you are still asking yourself, "Why is meditation so important?", this post is for you! You certainly don’t need me to tell you how stress accumulates in your body. The way we eat, drink, […]

January 5, 2023

How Meditation Helps

I am often asked: What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation? You might be wondering how meditation helps. Let's dive into it! What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is possible at this moment and at any and every moment all day long. It is essentially the practice of noticing the world around you as it unfolds, […]

January 5, 2023

The Path Out Of Suffering (Part 4 of 4)

If you’ve been following this series over the past three weeks, we’ve been taking a very rudimentary look into the first three of the most basic and most fundamental of all Buddhist teachings: the Four Noble Truths. This fourth post brings us to Buddha’s prescription for how we embark on the path out of our […]

January 3, 2023

Love and Compassion

How can we access love, compassion and wisdom? I always tell my practitioners and clients that the entry into this is already within us. But what about when we aren’t feeling particularly compassionate, wise, or loving? How can we go about accessing these parts of ourselves that seem distant and somehow “out there” and unattainable? […]

December 27, 2022

The Path Out Of Suffering

Part 4 of 4 If you’ve been following this series over the past three weeks, we’ve been taking a very rudimentary look into the first three of the most basic and most fundamental of all Buddhist teachings: the Four Noble Truths. This fourth post brings us to Buddha’s prescription for how we embark on the […]

December 23, 2022

Cease the Suffering (Part 3 of 4)

In this third part of the basic Buddhist teachings of the Four Noble Truths, we’ll explore the truth of how to cease suffering. It’s in this third Noble Truth that we can find hope! You might remember from the First and Second Noble Truths that we begin to understand that life involves and includes suffering. […]

December 23, 2022

Suffering Only Occurs in the Present (Part 2 of 4)

Last week, we discussed the very foundation of Buddhist teachings, the Four Noble Truths (see Part One of this series to get caught up!). We explored the reality that life includes “suffering.” It’s simply part of what it means to be human. In essence, our suffering can only be caused by our reaction to the […]

December 23, 2022

It’s Your Soul That’s Hungry (Part 1 of 4)

It's your soul that's hungry, not your body. Many of us are curious as to what Buddhism is all about. In my view, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a way of life. In this four-part blog series, we'll explore the foundation of Buddhist teaching, the Four Noble Truths. Over 2,500 years ago, in […]

December 22, 2022

Cease the Suffering

Part 3 of 4 In this third part of the Four Noble Truths, we’ll explore the truth of how to cease suffering. It’s in this third Noble Truth that we can find hope! You might remember from the First and Second Noble Truths that we begin to understand that life involves suffering. It’s only then […]

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