What is this blog about, and why?
What is this blog about, and why?
I invite you to to spend time here as if you are visiting a lovely garden of many plants and blossoms, or listening to a concert with many instruments and motifs.
Of course, you want to know the credibility of the person speaking here.
Here are some of my attributes and credentials: a human being, woman, daughter, sister, wife, parent, grandparent, friend, aunt, cousin, etc. A school psychologist whose experience in diagnostics, counseling, consultation, program development, and training spans a range of decades, locations, special needs, and ages from preschoolers to their grandparents. Registered yoga instructor. Creative pursuits: writing, music (guitar) and painting (oils). That’ll do.
Life has presented me with many opportunities to help others, and to be helped. Specific events led me to practice yoga and meditation. This has enriched my ability to help others, and be helped.
I am not a monk. I have not been hit by a sudden bolt of light that revealed the secrets of the universe.
The insights that have come my way are incremental. I now see that they stretch back, way back before I began a spiritual practice.
Outside of books, my spiritual teachers are not gurus. They are quite unaware that they are teaching me at all - just as, at the time, I may be quite unaware that I am learning.
I am grateful that such persons as the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hahn, don Miguel Ruiz, B.K.S. Iyengar and Elkhart Tolle have written books to light the path. Grateful, too, for the illuminating research and writings of physicians and scientists such as Herbert Benson, Stephen Porges, Dan Siegel, and Richard Davidson.
I do not claim the wisdom or expertise of such writers. The observations I offer here are my own, simple experiences. I write to express gratitude and wonder.
Thich Nhat Hahn and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the importance of the “beloved community.” As stated in The Art of Living, “A beloved community is a community of people who share the same aspiration and want to support each other to realize that aspiration.” Thich Nhat Hahn continues, “If we want to grow on our spiritual path, we need a community and spiritual friends to support and nourish us. And in return, we support and nourish them, like cells in the same body.”
I offer these stories from my own path in the hope that they might benefit you, and that we might help each other along the way.
Of course, you want to know the credibility of the person speaking here.
Here are some of my attributes and credentials: a human being, woman, daughter, sister, wife, parent, grandparent, friend, aunt, cousin, etc. A school psychologist whose experience in diagnostics, counseling, consultation, program development, and training spans a range of decades, locations, special needs, and ages from preschoolers to their grandparents. Registered yoga instructor. Creative pursuits: writing, music (guitar) and painting (oils). That’ll do.
Life has presented me with many opportunities to help others, and to be helped. Specific events led me to practice yoga and meditation. This has enriched my ability to help others, and be helped.
I am not a monk. I have not been hit by a sudden bolt of light that revealed the secrets of the universe.
The insights that have come my way are incremental. I now see that they stretch back, way back before I began a spiritual practice.
Outside of books, my spiritual teachers are not gurus. They are quite unaware that they are teaching me at all - just as, at the time, I may be quite unaware that I am learning.
I am grateful that such persons as the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hahn, don Miguel Ruiz, B.K.S. Iyengar and Elkhart Tolle have written books to light the path. Grateful, too, for the illuminating research and writings of physicians and scientists such as Herbert Benson, Stephen Porges, Dan Siegel, and Richard Davidson.
I do not claim the wisdom or expertise of such writers. The observations I offer here are my own, simple experiences. I write to express gratitude and wonder.
Thich Nhat Hahn and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the importance of the “beloved community.” As stated in The Art of Living, “A beloved community is a community of people who share the same aspiration and want to support each other to realize that aspiration.” Thich Nhat Hahn continues, “If we want to grow on our spiritual path, we need a community and spiritual friends to support and nourish us. And in return, we support and nourish them, like cells in the same body.”
I offer these stories from my own path in the hope that they might benefit you, and that we might help each other along the way.
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