Last night I lay awake for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. My heart hurt. It was a bit of a tough day yesterday. My two-year-old daughter has been having a hard time this week. Maybe […]

Basically everyone who tries to meditate for the first time thinks they are uniquely bad at it.  “You don’t get it. When I try to do it I catch myself thinking the whole time.”  Yes, of course you do! That’s what […]

I’ve recently been practicing with repeating the word “allow” in my own head. I was struck by this passage in a book: “‘Outside the body, the rule may indeed be, “If you don’t like it, figure out how to get […]

One of the most striking things that I’ve noticed in teaching beginners to meditate is how common the very earnest belief shows up of “I am doing this wrong and I am the only person in the world who is […]