Category: Inner Glance
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A Knowing Glance Within: I See You
Read time 4 minutes. A Knowing Glance Within is a stand alone article in our Everyday Zen series. Let’s pick up where we left off with Everyday Zen. Today I want to focus on the act of a knowing glance within—a glimpse of allowing. Why another lesson on this? Because if you’ve been following these practices, the…
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Letting Go of Illusion: An Invitation to the Present Moment
Read time 3 minutes. Letting Go of Illusion is a stand alone article within our letting go series. Sometimes I dream something bleak. A tragedy. A loss. A situation I don’t want to deal with. Then I realize—oh, I’m dreaming. And in that moment, everything lifts. Relief rushes in. The burden vanishes. Letting go of illusion feels a…
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A Universal Act of Letting Go: Easing Inner Struggle
Read time 3 minutes. A Universal Act of Letting Go is a stand alone article within our letting go series. In our last lesson, we began exploring a universal act of letting go—a practice that sidesteps individual emotional battles in favor of something far more encompassing. Let’s slow down and take a closer look. Why does this method…
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Practice of Letting Go: Looking Within
Read time 3 minutes. What do we mean by ‘practice of letting go?’ This stand alone article is part of our letting go series. Over the past few lessons, we’ve unpacked the layered nature of emotional activity. We explored mood as the ego’s barometer, emotions as the voice of instinct, and the feedback loops fueled by imagination.…
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Authentic/Inauthentic Emotions: Exploring Our True Feelings
Read time 4 minutes. Today we examine our authentic and inauthentic emotions. Some mental activity gives rise to inauthentic emotions, which serve to distract us and prohibit us from doing important inner work. This stand alone article is part of our letting go series. Let’s begin to explore this idea by considering a hypothetical situation. Perhaps we…
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The Subtle Art of Not-Doing
Read time 2 minutes. Not-Doing in Action is the final installment of our Addition Through Subtraction series. As we close out this exploration of not-doing, we arrive at a core understanding—one that’s easy to miss, yet quietly central. There’s a subtle action on a higher level that creates inaction below. A simple shift in attention. A…