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Board Games
In: Navel Gazing
13 Nov 2011Confession time. I don’t really like board games. Or card games either, for that matter. Or really, “games” in general. Not even Charades. Or Dominos. I didn’t much like them as a kid, and I still don’t much like them as an adult. I’m not entirely sure why, considering how much fun people seem to [...]
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Blogging Mindfully
In: Navel Gazing
4 Nov 2011If I blogger deletes a post draft, can they still learn from it? One of the bits of guidance often given to new meditators, particularly those working through Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (or, like me, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is that whenever you feel the urge to talk to someone about [...]
Making Mandalas
In: art|Navel Gazing
30 Jun 2011Crossposted from the Deadly Divas Everyone has their own way of expressing emotion, of managing anxiety. A year or so ago, when I was digging through reviews of various fountain pens, I stumbled across a blog called Spiritual Evolution of the Bean, by artist Stephanie Smith. She teaches the creation of mandalas as art and [...]
The Difference between Choice and Failure
In: Navel Gazing
15 Jun 2011Failure. Ugly word, ugly connotations, ugly mental constructs built to avoid it. I was reading an article recently about when to stop doing something, and it kind of tweaked my brain about failure versus changing your mind. From the original article: In the past year it became increasingly clear that the Temple was not doing [...]
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