Our teachers aren’t the mentors and gurus. Our teachers are the difficulties, challenges, frustrations and enemies. What we learn intellectually from a coach or a book might point us in a direction, but only what we experience personally can elevate that which we truly know. If we are looking to raise awareness, sure we can...

The “better” we get at something, the more watchful we need to be. Our belief system cements, we “dial in” our process. The potential to be side-swiped by completely new information or an approach that is far superior is smaller, but the repercussions if it does happen are greater. We have more emotional energy “invested”...

A main thing to be watchful of is the creation of conflict in the mind. When we are on a path, then we feel we “should” do something else, or “should” be doing it differently, instantly we have conflict. The conflicted mind is frustrated and unfortunately, there are plenty of opportunities to engage in this...

When we go into meditation, we go into ourselves. Just like we can “opt out” of an email newsletter, we can choose to sit alone. We might be sitting next to others, but we go inwards. Into alone-ness. This is, on the whole, dangerous for society. We discover our own truths, the nature of our...

It’s easy to teach the technicalities of the process, the movement, the sport, or the profession. It’s hard to teach people to get on the court and play the game and truly care. This is as true on the output side as it is on the restorative side. It’s easy to teach the method of...

So, it looks like my scheduled post didn’t go out yesterday. Well, here is something to make up for it. This is a free download of a short audio track featuring a C-Note Crystal sound bowl. As most people know, the sum total of musical bones in my body is zero. This is suitable for...

How should this feel? When we are doing breath work, or pranayama, we should feel relaxed and in particular we should feel warm. If we don’t understand how we should feel, then we lead with the head. This is dangerous. In this example of the breath, if we follow the head and we read some...

The art of relaxation – “Relaxare” – to “release.” Not just to band-aid the problem, but to let go. We know that when we move beyond tension, when we let go into relaxation, we recover faster, learn better, remember and connect more. But what if we can’t do it? What happens if we try, but...