We may be certain of a place we want to go, but even when our destination is clearly within sight, it requires conscious diligence to reach our desired endpoint. I used to tell with a healthy dose of self-deprecation the story of how I got lost on the Great Wall of China, but I recognized only recently that this story has been a glaring metaphor… read more
Sitting recently in a weeklong training class at work made me acutely aware of the powerful tendency for the mind to stray from where the body is physically located when we're not fully engaged with present matters at hand. While I'm no stranger to the natural phenomena of the "monkey mind" from my yoga and meditation practice, my conscious awareness of it was heightened by… read more
I discovered in myself a factory-installed mechanism that I'm rewiring because it doesn’t belong in this make and model I know to be me. By default, my old way of thinking was based on the automatic assumption that, when faced with multiple desirable options, I could have only one. Then it dawned on me that "and" is another, far more attractive alternative to "either or."… read more
