What is Meditation?
Origin of the English Word Meditation ‘Meditation’ – derived from the Latin meditatio, from a verb meditari, meaning “to think, contemplate, devise, ponder”. Interesting that the word’s English origins point…
Do We Really Want to Know Ourselves?
How little personality really wants to know “….don’t worry if, at the end of any day, you suddenly realize that you can’t remember a word I’ve said. That doesn’t matter….
Meditation – Running on Empty
Mindfulness of an Empty Mind on Auto-Run This one is for Janice and Kathy. I remember when external noises were a nuisance and distraction during meditation. Like many(?) or most(?),…
The Paradox of Paradise
The Dance Between Heart, Mind, Reality and the World We’re in love and life is grand, majestic, full of light and… we often worry about the loss of love. We’re…
Mind Tripping in the Mental Maze
Adventures in neuroscience mental coding – mindfulness In my last post, I gave a very brief introduction to our mind’s use of object relations as a way of storing and…
Ego Self and Object Relations
How the mind’s simple operating system distorts the world and traps us in the past How the Mind Relates to the World and Others… There is you/me There is the…