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The Workout Makes You Stronger. What You Add Makes It Harder.
What story are you adding that is making your experience more difficult? What happens when you notice? This mindful exercise practice can open the door to a new relationship with your workout and your mind. Exercise provides a clean testing ground for mindful training. Consider it a two-for-one. You work out the body, and you…
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Breathing In… Breathing Out… One Movement
Read time 1 minute. A uniquely subtle but important reframing of breath awareness practice as movement and transition. Breath awareness practice. The foundation of mindfulness.There are many methods. Here’s one you might not have considered. Something simple: Forget counting breaths.Forget inhale.Forget exhale. Forget the names entirely. Consider, instead, the qualities within a breath. Pressure.A subtle…
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Regret—Loss Disguised as Living
Read time 1 minute. Regret pretends to teach. This article does too. Regret—Loss Disguised as Living is a stand alone article in our ongoing Goth Zen series. We distrust darkness. We imagine something is hiding in there.Or we villainize it as if it were synonymous with demise. We’re told: To meet the moment you must stop running.We’re rarely…
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The Spirituality Problem— How To Avoid Endless Seeking
Read time 2 minutes. A quiet reflection on what often gets called “spiritual seeking.” The spirituality problem isn’t about presence or enlightenment, but the habit of standing outside our own lives, watching and trying to fix them Do you sometimes feel like an outsider in your own life?Do you find yourself struggling to feel complete?…
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Silence is the Loud Unamplified: Zen Drop 25
Read time under a minute. What does it mean to hear?What does it mean to be quiet? There is no empty.No nothing.Not really. So what does it mean to be silent?Noise rises and loops.It fights and feeds on itself. Feeds the senses.But what isn’t loud can’t be heard.Not even softly—just steady.Unrelenting. You only recognize itwhen you…
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Everyone Meditates: A Different Way to Understand Meditation
Read time 2 minutes. Meditation isn’t something you add to life. It’s what happens when you stop interfering. Do you meditate?Everyone meditates.Just not in the way we might think. If you’ve ever sat with a decision instead of forcing it—if you’ve ever let an idea breathe—if you’ve ever watched something unfold without touching it—you were…
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Just a Little Peace | A Greatfruit Meditation
Read time 2 minutes. A short meditation for when your mind refuses to cooperate. Just a Little Peace is a stand alone article in our BeToKnow series. You don’t need a quieter mind. You need a bigger cathedral. There’s a voice in your head.“In your head?”Says who? And that voice…Sometimes loud.Sometimes subtle.Always offering commentary no one asked for.And…
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Strawberry Fields Forever is Not-Not Zen
Read time 3 minutes. Find out what makes “Strawberry Fields Forever” so strange and emotionally familiar and discover “nothing to get hung about” as a mantra. This is a stand alone article in our BeToKnow series. John Lennon’s Strawberry Fields Forever: “That is—you can’t, you know, tune in—but it’s alright.That is, I think it’s not too bad.” How…
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Beware or Be Aware?—ButterflyInstead
Read time 2 minutes. ButterflyInstead is a stand alone article in our BeToKnow series. The grind.It’s how we make progress, right?It’s how we “get ahead.” Like a caterpillar inching. The grind repeats you.But its absence scares you. ButterflyInstead Like a moth to the flame Light promises the way,and we chase it—calling it clarity.An irresistible attraction. But artificial…