Mindful Moments Blog

My musings on mindfulness, meditation, Buddhism, and their wholesome integration into everyday life. Happy reading!

Mindfulness & Anxiety

Mindfulness teachers have this crazy notion that it is more helpful to become familiar with pain rather than try to avoid it or get rid...

3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help With Stress

Stress is good for us. Well, the right kind of stress can be good. The kind that we know is transient and relatively low-risk, like...

Difficult Emails - 4 Questions To Ask Before Sending

It's 2019. Emails are a part of life. We speed through them with the seemingly unreachable goal of getting that inbox to zero - or maybe...

The 2 Most Important Words This Holiday Season

Once when Suzuki Roshi was giving a talk in the 1960's, he was asked to sum up the Buddhist teachings into something simple and...

How NOT to Fall Asleep During Meditation - 5 Practical Tips

It happens to the best of us: an impromptu snooze in the middle of our meditation, only to wake up to the clanging of a bell or the...

I'm too busy, and 5 other garbage excuses for not meditating

I was on a Skype call with vipassana meditation teacher, Vincent Horn, several years ago and I was telling him about my inconsistency...

Beyond Just Presence - 3 Definitions of Mindfulness

I find it interesting that there is not a universally agreed upon definition of mindfulness. Probably because it is meant to be directly...

Everyday Mindfulness for Everyday Living