Tag: meditation practice

• Intentionally Blank

  In an article from The Write Practice, Jeff Elkins offers tips on how to find your “Thoughtful Spot.” This is a trick, Elkins writes, that he learned from Winnie the Pooh. “His Thoughtful Spot was a log under a tree marked by a sign that read, ‘Pooh’s thotful spot.’ It was the place where Pooh […]

  Teri

  September 10, 2016

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  contemplation, creative writing, Creativity, meditation practice, Stephanie J. Baugh, The Muse, The Write Practice, writing, writing practice

• The Mindful Life

  Last week I taught a class about “The Mindful Life” at my college.  Mindfulness is rooted in the Buddhist philosophy that only the present moment exists.  The future does not yet exist.  The past no longer exists.  Therefore, we should focus our energy and attention on that which is real, the present moment. Personally, I […]

  Teri

  March 2, 2016

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  anxiety, anxiety and depression, Buddhism, daily meditation, depression, Harvard neuroscience, meditation, meditation practice, Mindfulness, present moment, self-awareness, spirituality, stress

• about a daily spiritual practice

  We can hardly get Christians today to observe a weekly spiritual practice, let alone daily. This was my response to the teacher of the meditation conference I was attending who claimed he had never visited a church that encouraged a daily spiritual practice.  My teacher was a writer whose writing flourished once he embraced Buddhism […]

  Teri

  July 25, 2013

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  centering prayer, daily meditation, meditation, meditation practice, spiritual practices, spirituality, Thomas Merton, writing