Click here to listen The topic is listening as love. To me, this is the magic of mindful communication. Here’s a simple formula for this: Stop – Look – Listen. STOP: The first stage of mindful listening is to work with our speed and distraction. We need to simply stop, let go, Read more…
Mindfulness meditation makes us more aware of the inner conversations– those dramas that run over and over again in our minds. We recruit people to play certain roles in these inner conversations, but when we look closely we realize they are dream-masks. They aren’t real people. Our intention is to Read more…
This summer I performed two wedding ceremonies. Both couples were obviously in love and expressed their vows to each other with deep, tearful authenticity, witnessed by family and friends. My husband was there to give me a hand. He and I are celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, still in Read more…
In The Five Keys To Mindful Communication, I write about the ‘positive interruptions’ that come from learning to pay attention to the messages from our environment, from our felt experiences and from the wonder of not knowing what will happen next. This story from the New Work Times is the Read more…
A great piece by Patricia Jennings on what needs to happen to bring mindfulness practice into education, from Mindful magazine. “Our kids are going to be facing challenges that we really can’t even imagine today,” Tish Jennings notes at this year’s Bridging the Hearts & Minds of Youth conference. Jennings works at Read more…
2013 dawned in Vancouver as a foggy morning that gradually dissolved into brilliant sunshine. After weeks of rain, people were smiling, practically dancing in the streets. I remembered a poem that friend gave me, the image of a mountain enshrouded in mist that slowly becomes clearer as the sun Read more…
Dear Nancy, By now the whole world knows who you are, and maybe there are some, like me, who lie awake at night wondering how it was for you, those last few moments. Or perhaps it had been hours, days, weeks. You are–were– a single mother with an unusual child, Read more…
A sharpness is on the Summer’s tail, The healing breeze of Summer yields To the bitter wind of Wintertime. If this was a signal to you, bird, Then you would know the seasons not Themselves, but as a turning wheel*. The night before last, getting off my bicycle after Read more…
” He who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Thomas Jefferson When I came across this quotation my first thought was: ” how do I know which one is me? ” When my mind is filled with falsehoods and error Read more…
Mindful conversation is naturally ‘we-first’, which means that the relationship between speaker and listener is valued. Whether we agree or disagree, it still matters that our listener can hear what we have to say. And, when we’re listening, we try to understand what the speaker is trying to convey. This Read more…