Tag: mindfulness

The Layers of Lived Reality: from Sensations to Behavior

4 Aug 2026

Every experience unfolds in layers. What begins as a simple sensation gradually becomes a feeling, a meaning, a story, and finally a behavior. Most of our suffering does not arise from reality itself but from the layers the mind builds upon it. By learning to recognize this process, we can begin to respond to life directly instead of being driven by old patterns that seek to resolve an inner tension. … More The Layers of Lived Reality: from Sensations to Behavior

The Magic of Embodiment: The Role of Body in Resolving Anxiety & Conflict

21 Apr 2026

Not every unpleasant sensation is a messenger of threat, but if we treat them like that, then we find ourselves running into the attic of the mind and to weave more stories, to try to fix, manage, and control. We will end up living most of our lives in that tight space, instead of dwelling in the expansive space of the heart which is open and free of the need to interpret, judge, and read into the spontaneous flux of life. … More The Magic of Embodiment: The Role of Body in Resolving Anxiety & Conflict

American Cheese and the Ontology of Attention

24 Feb 2026

I once learned at the vet that a slice of American cheese could make a hated nail-clipping practically disappear for my dog. That small trick opened a larger question: can something be said to “exist” if it no longer stands out in consciousness? From Leroy to Kant, from metaphysics to everyday anxiety, this piece explores a blunt possibility, that many of our “situations” survive only by the oxygen of our attention. Shift the beam, and the monster fades. Not by force, but by redirection. … More American Cheese and the Ontology of Attention

The Permission to Feel Our Own Bliss: Reclaiming what was never anyone’s to give

4 Nov 2025

We spend our lives waiting for permission to feel joy—opening and closing the gates of our own happiness at every sign of approval or rejection. But joy was never something to earn. It was always ours, flowing beneath the surface, waiting to be reclaimed by the only one who could ever unlock it: ourselves. … More The Permission to Feel Our Own Bliss: Reclaiming what was never anyone’s to give

Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

19 May 2025

To be serene isn’t about managing and manipulating your environment into peace, for most often you yourself are the element of chaos, and your attempts at bringing peace is the very cause of disturbance.
Alternatively, one can find serenity by a simple act of reframing the will, the wish, and the goal:
If I want perfection to be the goal and wish that it’s the case, then by reframing what is as the perfect state of things, then the goal is already achieved and my wish instantly fulfilled. And if I will what already is, then I’m doing as I wish, for my wish, too, is what already is.
The cause of suffering is to wish things to be otherwise than they are, and that’s insanity to wish something that has already appeared in a certain form to have appeared differently. … More Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

13 Dec 2024

The true, creative affirmation is not the affirmation of the tongue but the affirmation of action, for only through action can things be brought into existence. 
Just for today, I’ll visualize how my best version would be acting today, and I act as if I’m already established in that version. … More Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

Embrace Your Bliss; you don’t need permission for it

13 Nov 2024

Then take a deep breath and look away from the script into the now, and tell yourself “I give myself permission to experience my own bliss right now. It’s mine unconditionally and I don’t need any reason to tap into it.” Remember that you ended up here because you told yourself the exact opposite of this, and it worked! So, replace the script and brainwash yourself with it, and there’s no reason it won’t work. So, embrace your bliss; it’s all yours. … More Embrace Your Bliss; you don’t need permission for it

Stop Trying to be Spiritual: Stop Trying, and There it is

18 Sep 2024

The idea of possessing spiritual qualities implies a fallacy: the fallacy that you exist, and that you are capable of possessing anything. In fact, the very idea of independent existence is the source of all suffering and the subsequent desire to become spiritual. All this is God’s land, i.e. the land of Pure Presence, so let go of all that spiritual bullshit and try to mind your own business, which simply means: recognize that you are already present and it’s all alright. … More Stop Trying to be Spiritual: Stop Trying, and There it is

The Best Investment Tip: Mind Your Own Business

13 Sep 2024

To be a good investor is to mind my own business, to become present and responsive to what is mine to do at any given moment, and to remember that my or your thoughts and feelings are not my business either.  So, what can I do? To focus my attention on what  lies in the domain of my immediate action. And that’s all I have; that is the only thing that’s truly mine in this world and of which I have perfect control: my attention and the ability to navigate it. … More The Best Investment Tip: Mind Your Own Business