Pressure and Procrastination as (Poor) Coping Strategies
.... and Life Coaching with Joe
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Join Dharmajunkies tonight 7pm for a Very Dharmajunkies Thanksgiving. Sarah will lead an Ancestral Healing Meditation. Joe will offer a talk on abundance and offering. And we will have an open discussion for all who attend. https://tinyurl.com/DharmaJunkies While Thanksgiving is often a time of gratitude spent with loved ones, it is at the same time […]
IT’S A WORRISOME LIFE – Working with Negativity Our human psychologies are nuanced and complex. One foundational affect, or deeply embedded physio/emotional belief, is that we need to store negative experience in order to learn how to protect ourselves and our species. This gives way to an experiential prejudice toward negativity, commonly referred to as […]
When I developed my meditation instruction into a practical life path I chose the name LIFEWORK for my new business. This felt apt because, in a very practical sense, our work is to live our life. Our jobs and any financial security we’ve earned would, ideally, support our life. While many of us have pressing […]
LEARNING TO LET GO. Letting go is a topic I can’t seem to let go of. An essential tool in the meditator’s kit, it is said that it is always appropriate to let go. But, as I keep hearing it from different perspectives, letting go seems to mean different things with many applications. As the […]
Many beliefs we hold are taken for granted without investigation. They remain hidden motivators that influence our life journey. Yet, as these belief systems stem from reactions to difficulties in life, they are defensive and don’t offer access to a larger world with more options and deeper understanding of each other’s beliefs. We just assume […]
My personal meditation practice is based on two principles, mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the grounding element that brings us back to the present. Awareness is the environment around mindfulness that lets me know when I should return, or when to let go. Awareness is seeing the trees and hills, it is feeling the wind, […]
The warrior feels sadness for the suffering of beings, as well as the delight in the possibility of their awakening. – Sakyong Mipham. We are living with the heartbreak and outrage of the war in the Middle East. This refrain has repeated many times throughout my lifetime. As things change, they say, […]
DHARMAJUNKIES MONDAY ZOOM 7PM (ET) MEDITATION . DISCUSSION . SUPPORT . COMMUNITY https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3282366303 Tonight: TRANSCENDENT KINDNESS Practice, Talk and Discussion with Sarah C. Whitehead
This post is dedicated to two women who were the seminal influences for the Dharmajunkies community. Michelle Killoran and Dr. Jamie Zimmerman were amazing beings who passed from this world instantaneously and unexpectedly, leaving a hole in the circle of my heart. A hole I choose to not fill. A hole they let their light […]
LEAN ON ME, WHEN YOU’RE NOT STRONG. Those of my venerability might remember the Bill Withers song. Withers voice was soft and strong and had such a rich timbre, you could feel the arms of his soul reaching out. Or perhaps it was his “Grandma’s Hands”, another song about the lineage of being held with loving […]