by Monk Anchorwind | 20 Jan, 2025 | The Mindfulness Journey |
The Project Page for 2025 : A Year of Compassion can be found here. 2025 A Year of Compassion : Part 3 – The Pressures We Put on Ourselves. Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We get to celebrate it by inaugurating a convicted felon, rapist, and fraud who is...
by Monk Anchorwind | 12 Jan, 2025 | The Mindfulness Journey |
A bit different I think I’m going to try something a bit different, this time. If it works I may keep up with this format. I am going to include Part 1 and another piece for context in addition to the main bit. 2025 : A Year of Compassion (Intro) 2025 : A Year...
by Monk Anchorwind | 6 Jan, 2025 | The Mindfulness Journey |
2025 : A Year of Compassion I initially wanted 2025 to be A Year of Focus. 2024 got away from me; it felt like the bad news piled on, and I lost myself just trying to do my best day to day. My instinct is to try to work harder, but as I’ve come to learn, that’s...
by Monk Anchorwind | 14 Nov, 2024 | The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, I’ve said for a few years now ‘Hope is the Mechanism for Meaning.’ In the math equation, ‘a + b = c’ Hope is ‘b.’ You decide what you want to try to accomplish (‘c’), and what you are left with is you and the effort you put in (‘a’). However, what...
by Monk Anchorwind | 7 Jun, 2024 | The Mindfulness Journey |
Mantra Meditation, in my opinion, is one of the most effective forms of meditation. Let us engage in a quick refresher: What is Meditation? Meditation is any of a family of techniques we actively do wherein our intentions and our actions align. What is a Mantra? ...
by Monk Anchorwind | 17 May, 2024 | The Mindfulness Journey |
A significant source of stress we have in our busy, western lives is the volume of ‘stuff’ we try to pack into our days. What is the relationship between the quantity of activity and the quality of enjoyment? It is often negative beyond a certain threshold, but it...
by Monk Anchorwind | 3 Feb, 2023 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
In my writings about joy, I speak of the environment often. I wrote such things as ‘our environment impacts us constantly, regardless of whether we are aware of it,’ and ‘the environment also means things we surround ourselves with mentally,...
by Monk Anchorwind | 2 Dec, 2022 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, What is joy? Joy is a response to activities bringing cheer to our life and a cultivated mindset allowing those activities to exist. Joy is also a passive state of being born of an appreciation and gratitude for life. How do we go out creating joy...
by Monk Anchorwind | 16 Nov, 2022 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, most of my previous thoughts about happiness and joy have primarily fallen into two camps. The first camp is in response to activity; if we feel happier for doing something. The second camp can be described as a state of being we feel without stress. ...
by Monk Anchorwind | 20 Oct, 2022 | The Mindfulness Journey |
For years I’ve struggled with the idea I am not valuable because I produce less than a healthy, employed person. The notion we are defined by our productivity, I’m sure, is rooted in some western capitalistic thought, and it was firmly embedded in me. I...
