How to Train a Wild Elephant

responsibility. This includes taking responsibility for everything, from our personal messes, including the physical messes of a dirty mug or an unmade bed, to our psychological messes, including misunderstandings and mistakes.

Inner Critic

negativity begins to color our awareness, often without our even knowing it.

good things come to pass, well, that’s wonderful, but the mind quickly puts these aside. The mind’s concern is protecting us from the negative, the dangerous.

It’s because the mind doesn’t have to be worried about the positive things that might happen.

This practice helps us stop, open our senses, and become receptive to what is available in our lives just now.

We don’t appreciate their absence until we’ve suffered their presence.

Can we find anything, anywhere, in this moment, that is cause for appreciation? We look, listen, feel.

Appreciation practice is an investigation.