Tag: inner tension
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Uncle Bob, Zen, and the Leftovers – A Micro Zen Practice
Micro Zen practice?It’s just this simple: MindfulRebellion Want the entire story? Read: Practice Takes Practice: Energy Awareness. Choose your own adventure:
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Practice Takes Practice: Energy Awareness
Read time 3 minutes. Learn a simple yet powerful energy awareness practice that helps you break the emotional feedback loop. Ahead lies a deceptively simple practice.But it only works if you’re willing—truly willing—to stop fighting what is.You don’t have to like what’s happening.You do have to stop arguing with it.Perhaps you find yourself struggling with…
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The Ripple Behind the Illusion of Self
Read time 2 minutes. What is your true nature? It lies beyond the false self.
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Something Remembered: Zen Drop 008
Read time 1 minute. Something remembered. What spiritual amnesia forgot. What is it about touching stillnessthat feels PeacefullyFamiliar? You don’t need to wait to get present.Presence is already here. Mini-awakenings are a slight return.The ache with no villain longs for a complete return. And that’s why we practice. Spiritual practice is remembering—remembering not to forget.…
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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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Emotional Freedom: Zen and the Art of Letting Go
Read time 3 minutes. Emotional Freedom is the first stand alone article in our continuing series regarding letting go. What would it feel like to experience true emotional freedom?What steps would we take to begin? For many of us, even on good days, there’s a weight—an untraceable tension that hangs beneath our other experiences. A…