Meditations in Gratitude 20: Relative Appreciation
By studying the ways in which we shift the value of people, places and things, we help to demonstrate how flexible reality truly is.Read more
MiG 19: The Wisdom of Letting Go
We are wise to give ourselves credit any time we abandon an idea that fails to help us realize growth, connection, peace or joy in our lives.Read more
MiG 18: The Gratitude Wave
By participating in #TheGratitudeWave we can help to combat some of the negative psychological effects created by COVID’s second wave,Read more
MiG 17: Made of Others
Being grateful for the massive system of people that feeds us from birth to death is low-hanging fruit on the gratitude tree. 🙂Read more
MiG 16: Measuring Success
What if the nature of thought led people to believe we were doing poorly when in reality we’ve actually done far better than we thought?Read more
Meditation in Gratitude 15: Societal Success
It’s like the ‘White Rabbit’ song. One thought makes us larger, and one thought makes us small. The question is, which one did we think?Read more
MiG 14: Accounting For Wisdom
We’re always so focused on finding out what we don’t know that we forget to account for all of the strengths and capabilities we have gathered.Read more
MiG 13: Trigger Happy
If we accept our negative feelings we can use them to trigger healthier responses.Read more
Mig 12: When Someone ‘Gets You.’
They add value to life, so we’re wise to be actively grateful for life’s stronger connections, be they rejuvenating people, places or activities.Read more
MiG 11: Transition Emotions
There are emotions that we skip over so quickly that we can often forget that they really matter. Especially if we’re seeking a more rewarding life.Read more
Meditations in Gratitude 10: Voices of Awareness
By choosing something particular to focus on we can practice the act of conscious awareness, which is a form of presence with the moment we’re in.Read more
MiG 9: Goodness Graciousness
Treating people in ways they may feel are better than they deserve, can help them to see more of their as-yet untapped potential.Read more
MiG 8: Exposition By Contrast
Living a life of equanimity requires us to appreciate that without darkness there can be no meaningful light.Read more
MiG 7: Scientific Expressions of Love
Let’s take some time to really think about all our healthcare requires and let us be grateful for every single part of it.Read more
MiG 6: Fostering Equanimity
This meditation urges us to relax into our existing reality by exposing how bad we are at knowing what is actually good for us.Read more
Cultures of Appreciation
Many cultures find pleasure in winter confinement, and fortunately, the skills they use to do that can also apply to COVID’s 2nd wave.Read more
Meditations in Gratitude 5: Crisis and Opportunity
Every crises carries with it the seeds of opportunity. Our role is in finding ways to nurture and cultivate those seeds.Read more
MiG 4: Expressions
Bring joy to your life by expressing your gratitude to the people who have introduced you to some of your favourite things in life.Read more
MiG 3: Radar for Kindness
If we tune ourselves to watch for kindness in action, it will both make us more present, and we’ll realize we live in a pretty good world.Read more
MiG 2: Visionary Awareness
Day Two of our meditation series is designed to help us all get through the second wave.Read more
Meditations in Gratitude 1: Conjuring Anticipation
To feel grateful we must learn to prime our minds be be tuned to spot aspects of life that are worth appreciating.Read more
Daily Exercises in Gratitude
Why not choose a friend and start each morning with an awareness exercise that is designed to strengthen our long term ability to be grateful?Read more
The Science of Mindfulness
Yet another Harvard scientific study demonstrates the power of mindfulness to affect meaningful behavioural change.Read more
Comparison as Perspective
A transcript of a conversation about how to draw personal value from mindfully considering the sacrifices made by others on our behalf.Read more
Remembrance Day Revisited
A conversation on how we can turn an intentional, meditative experience on Remembrance Day, into a year-long practice of gratitude.Read more
Contexts for Love
Empathy is a form of love, but it only exists in the context of pain. This is an important lesson in how life is shaped.Read more
Your Sphere of Influence
We would see all the light of the universe if we didn’t shield ourselves from it, by maintaining negative ideas about who we are.Read more
Accepting Difference
Others are not vastly different from ourselves. We are all simply different keys, for different locks. But we are all still keys.Read more
The Reality of Social Pain
Loneliness is a form of social pain that is complicated by the size of modern societies.Read more
Maintaining a Healthy Approach to the Second Wave
Grab a friend. Turn COVID’s 2nd wave into a lesson on increasing our awareness and our appreciation of life.Read more
A Healthy Whole
Don’t make yourself sick by trying to avoid what you think of as weakness.Read more
Don’t Just Change Your Job, Change Your Life
We want to stop looking for things that will impress us or others. We want to look for things that service our impulses.Read more
Intentional Mornings
Mornings are huge opportunities because that’s when we gather in our sense of identity.Read more
The Nature of Commitment
Our impulses point to who we are at our core. Get to know that person. Because that version of us has a special grace to them.Read more
The Crucible of Loneliness
To understand what we are experiencing we must first understand that the darkness itself is like a holding space for our agony.Read more
Art as a Mirror for the Soul
In living life, everyone wants ‘a sign’ of what to do. Well, artists make signs for a living.Read more
Apocalypse Now
I will continue to be available for sessions. But in addition I am also working on some plans to try to attend to the needs of those for who do not have the option of working directly with me.Read more
The Vagaries of Life
Life is capricious every single day. Good people face terrible tragedies, and benefit from wonderful good fortune.Read more
Untangled Paradoxes
The capacity was always there. What’s changed is that we lose the thought-limits that create the paradox.Read more
Adding Unity to a Community
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make them a friend.Read more
Digital Dating
People can definitely find lasting happiness through dating apps. But even if we use them, it should be done so with an awareness of how the process itself alters what it is that we think we’re doing.Read more
Relationship Balance
We should not lose sight of their soul or their sense of purpose, any more than we should lose sight of our own.Read more
Social Graces
There are still people alive today that think there is no greater weakness than showing weakness.Read more
Media as Meditation
The shows and films we watch carry hidden depth. Finding that meaning takes us out of our own heads and into a beneficial state of wonder.Read more
Love is a Verb
A lot of people judge their parents, or previous generations, without really knowing what life was truly like for those people. Understanding creates empathy.Read more
The Sum Of Our Life
Our value is not created only by what we accomplish, it is also created by what we we care about, and make sacrifices for.Read more
Motherhood Revisited
It’s a healthy thing to come to terms with some of life’s greatest internal conflicts.Read more
Transitions
If all of us grow and learn throughout our lives. These lessons change how we see the world and ourselves.Read more
Our Place in Life
Even if we can’t be there, there is a peace that comes with knowing where and how we fit in and belong.Read more
Aspects of Reality
Unless they learn to understand one another, logically focused people and emotionally focused people can come into unnecessary conflict.Read more
Attractive to Others
Admirers can reflect our best selves back to us, but only love will bring light to the trenches.Read more
Dialed In
The two aspects of mental health include our awareness of our thinking, and our ability to shift its course.Read more
5 Awareness-Raising Questions
We think so much we’re often not even aware of the things or people we care about.Read more
Generational Differences
A lot of Baby Boomer’s impressions of their childhoods include a painful misunderstanding.Read more
Psychospiritual Impedance
Our insecurity grows in direct relation to the amount of self-critical thinking we engage in.Read more
Tapping Into A Better Life
How might your life be better tomorrow than it is today?Read more
The Devil’s Advocate
We forget that we can be good friends with people who are very different from us.Read more
Threads of Generosity
They happen in our soundscape and in our field of view all of the time. Billions of possible points of focus –and thoughts about that point- are possible in any given moment. Our reality is formed by the patterns we have regarding how and why we choose those particular bits of reality to form ‘ours.’…Read more
The Tube of Experience
Wisdom is the recognition that the tube is always there.Read more
The Energy of our Being
Living with this understanding changes what matters to us.Read more
The Care-giving Question
How much are we willing to sacrifice to care for a loved one?Read more
Courses of Thought
It is when we are struggling that our wisdom is the most valuable.Read more
Relationship Disappointments
Perpetual disappointment is a key feature of too many relationships.Read more
A Suicidal Perspective
Suicidal people lose track of their future. #suicideRead more
Conscious Participation
In the simplest terms, what to do each day is quite clear. #mindfulness #YEGRead more
Emotional Degrees
Something interesting happens when we translate our relationships into words. #itsoktonotbeokRead more
The Price of Friendship
This math dictates whether people grow closer together or further apart.Read more
Asperger’s and Mindfulness
Living with Asperger’s is much easier once we know how. @CBCRadioActiveRead more
Ways of Being
For some it’s tolerance with resentment. For others it’s anger with forgiveness. #toleranceRead more
Freedom of Thought
Many social and political issues have evolved into examples of Mass Hysteria. #politics #socialjustice #cooperationRead more
The Spiritual Gym
These steps build a better life. If we do them often enough we can even come to enjoy them. #apology #sorry #YEGRead more
Having an Attack
We have to see ourselves as ‘having’ those attacks. To ‘have’ to is allow. #COVID #itsoktonotbeokRead more
Compassionate Communications
Without this skill we cannot repair division. #peace #communicationRead more
Gratitude Segments
My CBC Radio Active column on discovering more sources of gratitude in our lives.Read more
Knowing Our Limits
It’s our act of creation that wraps our limiting thoughts around us. #YEG #itsoktonotbeokRead more
The Cost of Living
Approach in a healthy way, the challenges of caregiving can offer big rewards as well. #caregiverRead more
Kangaroo Planet
If we’re trying to seek the best in others, it’s wisest to appeal to the best in them.Read more
The Human Library
Being heard reminds us that we maintain our value even when we’re down. #YEG #mentalhealth #mindfulnessRead more
Psycho-Spiritual Resistance
Any life can be successful as long as it finds that particular life’s unique rewards.Read more
Little Bits of Grace
It is only through our conscious attention that these opportunities turn into our reality. #itsoktonotbeok #YEGRead more
Motorcycle Mindfulness
Mindfulness can turn science into a practice that can make our roads safer. #motorcycles #CBCRead more
Weave a Brighter Future
Weave the present carefully. It soon becomes our past, filled with either regret or appreciation. #mindfulness #YEGRead more
Emotional Absorption
That’s someone who has been over-thinking. She was having a biochemical rush. What she needed was absorption. #YEG #itsoktonotbeokRead more
Paying Attention
This is us slowing down the process of what our minds normally do. #mindfulness #YEGRead more
Building The Temple of Silence
Visit your temple at least five times per day. Start today. It only takes a month and a half to build one.Read more
The Gratitude Net
If we are serious about any goal we are best to approach it intentionally.Read more
Crazy Love
What we really need to be able to do is see the best in each other despite all else. #love #romance #datingRead more
The Nature of Expansion
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. One makes us more resilient, the other makes us wiser. #itsoktonotbeokRead more
Suffering With Meaning
If we avoid suffering we avoid embarrassment and that only hinders growth. #YEGRead more
Brain Tricks for Motorcycle Safety
A brain mistake can make a rider invisible. But mindfulness can make them visible again. #motorcycles #roadsafetyRead more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Addict
A healthy man writes a letter to his addicted self.Read more
A Premeditated Meditation: Alcohol and the Angry Home-Schooling Dad
If they need time to learn, we must also give ourselves time to learn how to teach. #homeschool #alcoholRead more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Grieving Spouse
You’re engaged in ‘language-based self-conversations that resist reality with want.’Read more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Jealous Partner
Love includes trust, that’s not added in after. No trust? That’s not real love then.Read more
A Premeditated Meditation: The Self-Hating Teenager
Think about out it. You’re cutting your own skin!! How bad can these girls hurt us?Read more
My Suicide Note
This is not something you want to be reading. But I’ve done all I can do. The rest is up to you.Read more
Changes Here
It’s always helpful to take a new look at old things.Read more
Reinventing Reality
What makes a day good or bad? The events, or our thoughts about the events? #suicideRead more
Blinded by Thought
This is how our ego blinds us to our choices and opportunities, and channels us toward one life and not another.Read more
Turbulence
All turbulence and roughness is legitimately unfortunate. But it is also the way nature works. It can be very valuable to keep that larger context in mind.Read more