Embodied Presence Practices
Candlehour
To Know the Dark – Wendell Berry, Farming: A Handbook, 1970
To go in the dark with a light is to
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A Journey to the Underworld: Cultivating Sacred Space for Sleep
The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is,
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Breath, Impermanence, and the Practice of Breathing
When we are given the most basic instructions for sitting in meditation, we are often instructed to focus on the
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Staying present in stillness when difficult thoughts arise
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
– Joseph Campbell
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Three Stages of Mindfulness
At the beginning of cultivating mindfulness there is deliberate or effortful mindfulness. There is friction in this stage, and typically
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How to Practice Mindfulness Meditation
Ch'an [Zen] was not a religious project: it was an empirically based spiritual/philosophical one. At the center
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Introducing... the Present Moment!
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with
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Resisting the Grind: Thoughts on 'Grind Culture' and Cultivating Presence
In my Sociology of Mental Illness course I teach at Roosevelt University we've been reading Rest is Resistance