Was sitting up in bed this morning, listening to birdsong and enjoying the cool (ok, COLD — this is Wisconsin) breeze drifting in the windows…. ahhh…. when my cute little monkey mind noticed that my back hurt. Very slightly. In one spot. The pain had started in January […]
READ MORE →~ Daria’s Wednesday Wisdom column ~ How do you begin your day? For most of my life, I jumped right into a task as soon as I walked in my office. I felt like I was getting more done that way! When that task was done, I […]
READ MORE →This article series is about the many forms of human intuition. Do you know your strongest type? To recap our intro article, intuition is a way you can receive information through the parts of your consciousness other than your physical body or rational, thinking mind. Intuition is […]
READ MORE →“I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.” —Mahatma Gandhi What do you do in the morning to prepare for your day? You likely clean your teeth and wash and feed your body. But what about maintaining your connection […]
READ MORE →Have you been guilt-tripping yourself about not having a spiritual practice? The truth is, you already do have one. Maybe you’re not meditating like a monk or levitating like a lama, but you do have a spiritual practice. The question is: is your current practice doing for you […]
READ MORE →I used to avoid exercising. I could not make myself do it. Have you been in the same boat with self-improvement or resolving a certain problem? Yes, I had the treadmill that slid under the bed. I had weights and tapes. But they gathered dust, and I […]
READ MORE →Are you looking for a way to sail more smoothly through life’s knock-down events, have more patience with your kids and coworkers, and rev up your thinking? Try mindfulness meditation. Lots of meditation research has touted its powers to de-stress your approach to life, but new research […]
READ MORE →I’ve been meditating more and more recently, how about you? Most of us know meditating can de-stress you big-time and strengthen your ability to hear inner guidance. But when you sit down, do a million thoughts come flooding into your mind? Me too! But still I sit down, […]
READ MORE →Have you been taught to see your thoughts as “enemies”? As a bad habit you need to “fix”, as the source of illness and imbalance, poverty and unhappiness? Do you bore yourself repeating positive affirmations so you can develop positive thought habits that eventually can cancel the […]
READ MORE →Does the idea of “praying” make you uncomfortable? That doesn’t make the process less powerful. For thousands of years sages have recommended spending time each day in prayer, or even living your entire life as a prayer, so you might suspect it has a spiritual benefit. Anything […]
READ MORE →by Daria Boissonnas I have a spiritual teacher who says if your goldfish dies, it’s OK to be sad for a while. If you are still sad 12 years later, something is wrong. Grief and other emotions that drag us down should eventually fade as we come […]
READ MORE →~ Daria’s Pastoral Reflection on meditation, presented at James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Church, Madison WI, on July 29, 2007 ~ So… our topic is meditation. And let me say up front that I do not meditate regularly! Not on a schedule anyway. However, I have definitely meditated, […]
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