Frequently, when I’m stressed about something, I succumb to migraine headaches. Several years back, I went to Mayo Clinic’s Headache Clinic, to see if there was a solution. To my surprise, my doctor said an interesting thing: “Did you know, Elissa, that having a headache is similar to practicing the piano? The more your brain […]
Noticing
An excerpt from Jack Kornfield’s The Wise Heart: “‘Eh,’ Ajahn Chah would peer at me when I was having a hard time, ‘caught in some state again?’ In the forest monastery we were constantly being directed both to look at consciousness itself and to precisely name the states that rose to fill it throughout the […]
Holding Yourself in Kindness
I’m reading Jack Kornfield’s book on Buddhist psychology, The Wise Heart. It’s come at a good time for me, because I’ve been ignoring physical signs that all is not well. You know when you want something really badly, and you rationalize and theorize about how it’s going to work out and how it’s going to […]