In times of "rock bottom"... Though, hopefully not literally, as such was the case this weekend when my sweet little, Suki took a tumble through the gaps of my staircase to hit a carpeted bottom... Serious sigh...Ugh... There's a friend of mine I like to call in order to get me back on my (hopefully not fractured!) feet: Equanimity. As a "simple" practice of "resting" in a place of neutrality, not judging thoughts, feelings, or happenings as "good" or "bad," in practicality,

When you shake up a snow globe, though beautiful, almost frantic. Time is needed to settle. Meditation, in this context, is a lot like time. It's when we sit down to collect ourselves, what crystallizes is our clarity. We begin to see the entire picture. With my first semester in counseling psychology drawing to a close, what I am finding myself most grateful for is being given permission to stop. As a part of our learning, we were told by our professor, Dr. Shapiro, to pract