Live Conscious Blog
What Determines If Today Will Be a Good Day or a Bad Day?
Good days. Bad days. What’s the difference between the two? Why are there days when you have a generous attitude toward other people? You stop and let the other driver go first. You tell the person behind you in the check out lane at the grocery store—the one...
Tara Brach Offers A Buddhist Approach To Dealing With Fear
Are you looking to better understand your strategies for dealing with fear—the fight/flight response? If so, I’ll recommend two things, one is an earlier post I wrote, Love or Fear, and the other is an online video by Tara Brach, titled Attend and Befriend. One of the...
Within Our Romantic Relationships, Everything is a Chance to Connect
Romantic relationships offer something unique In romantic relationships, if we frame our conversations with our partner in a particular way, even the difficult conversations become a chance to deepen our connection. The key is turning toward one another, not away from...
The Secret Language Of Buddhism
Here’s the first secret: An ancient Pali language, the language that the Buddha spoke during his lifetime, was a “verbing” language. This way of speaking was unique in that it allowed one to stay in process, not fixing oneself or clinging to a...
Love or Fear
There is significant reason to believe that we—individually and collectively—are living within a false paradigm. And if we were to make one change in our lives, shifting from fear to love, we would create a new world. Most of the problems we face would...
Respect Yourself
Respect yourself is the answer! What’s the question? Well, it comes in response to our most popular blog post: How To Find A Good Man . As a result of that post we’ve received several specific emails asking for more advice on how to find a good man. I...
How To Love? Just Remember, it’s Love, Stupid!
How to love, that’s the question. The answer is simple. It’s love, stupid! “It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase in American politics widely used during Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign against George Bush. The...
Minimize the Risk of Getting Hurt When Falling in Love
In my previous postings, how to find a good man and how to find a good woman, I emphasized that early in the dating stage you need to be rather intolerant. I’d like to say more about this. If you’re trying to find a good partner—male or female—one key is to apply your...
Perception Language is a Mindfulness Practice
Perception Language allows you to listen to other people without getting defensive, realize they are only talking about themselves, and stop making compassion-less judgments of others. Perception Language allows you to speak with authority and clarity about...
The Four Minute Meditation—Audio
Here are instructions for the meditation: If you haven’t ever done the Four Minute Meditation before you may want to listen to this short introduction. Once you’ve heard it, you probably won’t need to hear it again. However, feel free to download it...
Sensory Awareness Leads to Mindfulness
Do you want to live your life with more mindfulness? Do you want to stop rushing toward the end of your life? In a Live Conscious Retreat we begin each day with a form of mindfulness meditation called Sensory Awareness. In this practice we use our senses to slow...
Happy Couples — Day 8 — Maya Tulum
We are at the end—the physical end—of this Live Conscious Retreat, in Maya Tulum. But I don’t think of this as an end, instead it is a beginning for the people who came together for the past eight days. As we learned to use a new set of communication tools and we...
