One of the most powerful tools for living a well-regulated, mindful life is the ability to notice, to bring your benevolent observer into the present moment.

While we don’t have the power to control or even anticipate what the next moment may bring into our experience, we do have some say about how we meet these experiences internally. Within this website, I offer tools to support your present-day, benevolent observer and ways to return to a more centered and grounded daily experience.

672nd Week: Nurturing Compassion

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For this week’s experiment in conscious living, I draw from my book, Sacred Practices for Conscious Living, 2nd Edition, from the chapter on “Compassion and Lovingkindness: Living with An Open Heart”. Here’s a quotation from that chapter: “For many people, the process of awakening to a greater sense of compassion initially feels overwhelming. A question…
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669th Week: Accessing Options

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I just listened to an interview with Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on the NPR show,  On Being, with Krista Tippett.  The interview centered around Sheryl’s and Adam’s new book about Sheryl’s husband’s death and Adam’s work with resilience.  At the end of the interview, Sheryl said that it is really about “post traumatic growth”,
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