Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing Body and Spirit

In sitting meditation, we are actually making an appointment with ourselves. We learn to be our own soul mate, to be fully there and listen to ourself deeply.

We leave this world with a smile and continue on in other forms. The question is whether or not we have enough time and true love for ourselves to cultivate this smile of nonfear in our daily life.

vividly. It seems as if the barrier between the store consciousness and the mind consciousness becomes more porous when we’re sick, so that images of the past can arise more forcefully than ever.

Knowing that you have enough is a practice that brings much joy and happiness. When we have time to stop and look deeply, we can experience the joy that is already there.

This progression is necessary because each breath takes about three to five seconds, and it takes only a split second to identify an in-breath or an out-breath; thus, the mind still has the rest of the time to think and to wander off!

When we’re aware of our breathing, our steps, or a drop of dew that is hanging from the tip of a leaf, that awareness is gentle and soft like the moonlight.

the language that we use and the sounds of music that we produce can manifest our deep consciousness.

Frustration and despair do arise, but I breathe to calm these feelings so as not to worsen the situation.

We may complain that we suffer, but in fact, many of us are addicted to it. We guard it with all our might by our habitual ways of living and thinking.

we practice to speak more lovingly and we use practice songs to water the seeds of happiness and joy in us.