Today’s podcast takes us into relationship with conflict and shows us how to enter conflict mindfully rather than butt up against it or run away from it.

Today on the podcast we are exploring uncertainty and how through mindfulness we can change our relationship with it to feel more comfortable with it as we move through the world.

Bias is an adaptive process that allow us to use prior knowledge and experiences to inform decisions and actions in the present. Often bias is unconscious—we are not even aware of it. Bias leads to discrimination and attitudes about people that don’t serve us. Mindfulness practice can help us to bring unconscious bias into our awareness so that we don’t automatically form an opinion or act but can pause and respond with open-heartedness.

Do you ever find yourself saying “Yes,” when you have wanted to say “No?” Saying “No” is a mindfulness practice worth cultivating.

Just right boundaries allow us to freely give and receive and to connect with others with respect and dignity. Poor boundaries lead to distress and suffering. This we explore how to mindfully work with boundaries to create that just rightness.

How often do we really listen to someone with our full attention and without thinking what we want to say while the other person is speaking? Deep listening is a gift. It connects us deeply. And, all of us can do it with mindful practice.

When we see someone in distress or suffering, we want to help and so we do but then we become entangled in the outcome being a certain way and don’t let go. In this episode we explore letting go.

Here’s what is true. There is nothing that cannot be forgiven and there is no one undeserving of forgiveness.

Some kinds of wanting are motivational and help us to meet our basic needs. Others lead us to states of unease and distress and to a continuous merry-go-round of seeking to feel better, only to feel worse again. Bringing mindfulness to what’s wanting and its effect helps us to unwind the never-ending wanting mind.

Today we explore trust—everyday transactional trust that binds us in our social communities and gets broken from time to time and inner trust that is always there and allows us to live our lives forward no matter what.

When the plate is overflowing, practice letting go of the content of experience to access your embodied inner knowing.

This week we’re looking at core values through the lens of mindfulness exploring them as guideposts that keep us on the path to a life of satisfaction, kindness, and happiness.

Today we delve into conflict and how lovingkindness and mindful meditative enquiry from a place of equanimity lead us to resolution.

The comparing mind? It comes on line when we are caught up in the ego-mind. We want to be adulated, flattered, praised, loved, valued and admired. We may not want to admit this to anyone, not even ourselves. What do we do when we find ourselves getting caught up in comparing mind? Be mindful. Notice it, allow it, and feel how it feels. Nurture ourselves with lovingkindness—the antidote to comparing mind.

When we are mindful we are present—we are aware. Sometimes, even when we intend to be mindful, we are not. We may not be aware that we are feeling that everything is NOT OK. So, the question arises, “How can we open ourselves to being present and discover what’s happening now?

How do we start to live mindfully? One minute at a time—the length of a traffic light. We start with being aware—being present with the breath. What people often don’t realize about mindfulness is that we already have everything we need to be mindful. We have the time. We know how to be aware. We are already breathing. We know how to sit and how to walk. And, today I’ll show you how to be with what gets in the way so you can start where you are.

Judging. We all do it. We judge ourselves and others. Our conditioning through life experience leaves us with partial perspectives and narrow understanding. But we don’t have to live our lives judging. We can shift into our clear, open, spacious, loving, grounded and curious essential nature. And when we do, judging drops away.

Anger is a natural emotion that we often try not to express, but when expressed in appropriate ways leads to removing injustices in the world. In this episode we explore anger, its outward and inward expression, and what happens when it gets stuck in us. We explore how with mindfulness, we can go through the anger to find its roots and then let go.

Do you ever wonder “Who am I really?” Am I just a bunch of thoughts, emotions, behaviors, parts and structures? Or am I something more? Something different? This week on the podcast we’re getting curious about our true nature—who we truly are. We are open, spacious, and alive awareness that has an innate knowing that moves us forward in our lives, that is loving and compassionate, that is trusted, safe, and grounded. How do we contact it? How do we know when we are present in it? Come explore these questions with us on the show.

This week we examine skillful speech—speech that frees. We discuss the importance of intention and attitude. And, how to notice unskillful speech and use mindfulness to right our speech to free us.