As regular readers know, I’ve been choosing a single word by which to live for the whole year. This year’s word is Center: I’m going to explore what is at my center nowadays. I’ll seek practices and experiences that will help me name it and focus (or re-focus) on it accordingly. And then I wantContinue reading “Center: A Mid-Year Check-In”
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Learning How to Do Nothing
When I chose Center as my word for this year, I knew that I wanted to incorporate a daily meditation practice into whatever else I might end up doing while exploring this word. I’ve had intentions to do this with other words in the recent past, but this time doing so seemed more essential thanContinue reading “Learning How to Do Nothing”
Replace Thoughts with Sleep
I’ve struggled with insomnia since my college days. Its severity ebbs and flows, but I can point to a few times when it’s been especially bad. Sometimes, I’m kept awake by specific issues. Something is so prominent in my life, or at least in my mind, that I can’t let go of it enough toContinue reading “Replace Thoughts with Sleep”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 