Mindfulness Meditation
It took me a long time to decide to start my own meditation practice. I’d read book after book on spiritual growth and most would mention some sort of meditation. Some how though, it all just sort of escaped me—I didn’t really know how to meditate for one thing, and didn’t feel I had the time. What got me started was the Rabbi Hillel quote, “If not now, when?” I took a weeklong writing class back in 2000 called Mindfulness and Writing. Poet and mystery writer, Kate Green, taught half of the course and...
Read MoreMy Happy Place
“Imagine in your mind’s eye a beautiful, peaceful place in nature. This may be somewhere you’ve been before….” These are words I use to help my clients enter a trance state, a meditative state. Imagining a place in nature—the colors, the scents, the feel of the breeze and the warm sun—all evoke within the mind and body a peaceful, relaxing feeling that naturally guides one down into a trance state. I often tell my clients when I am describing what will happen in a session that they will find...
Read MoreNorthshore in Minnesota
Several years ago I met Kat at a writing retreat in Cloquet, MN, entitled, Mindfulness and Writing. Part of the workshop was taught by a Buddhist priest (meditation) and part taught by a mystery writer. We would sit in meditation during the morning hours, and then write all afternoon. It was mealtimes where I heard bits and pieces of Kat’s story, and like a magnet, felt pulled to sit near her. The writing instructor had asked us all to write short biographies before attending the weeklong workshop so she would...
Read MoreThe Good Stuff
I meditate every morning. Through my education at Atlantic University, founded by Edgar Cayce, it became clear that without a meditation practice I might see some spiritual growth, but it would be a longer journey. Finally, one day I just decided to start. I set a do-able goal of five minutes. There are still days when five minutes is the best I can manage. There have been days when an hour and a half have passed at it feels like it was only five minutes. Through my own Integrated Imagery work I have come to...
Read MoreToo Sensitive
I am thinking now of a woman who had just moved to this area when I met her at a class at Brigid’s House. She is a medium and had worked for several years with the local police in the metropolitan area where she used to live. She said something that had never occurred to me before—she said she had trouble staying in her body. She lived in her head, she said, or somewhere just above it. As odd a thing to say as that might seem, instantly I knew exactly what she meant. We are all each our own trinities—mind,...
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