by Monk Anchorwind | 19 Jan, 2023 | Dear Diary |
If I were to ask you, ‘Where are you?’ How do you answer that question? Generally speaking, we choose the label by which the ground under our feet is identified and stop thinking any further. Perhaps we are in ‘Chicago’ (Illinois, USA), which...
by Monk Anchorwind | 14 Jan, 2023 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, 2023’s theme is forgiveness. As a recap, in basic terms, forgiveness relieves the burden of change. Forgiveness is the opposite of guilt (the burden of change). In life, we often retrospect on real and perceived mistakes and ponder to ourselves...
by Monk Anchorwind | 27 Jun, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, What is Validation? A surface-level evaluation of the question may lead us towards answers involving awards and other forms of recognition. However, recognition is not validation. Validation is permission to proceed along a chosen path, an acquisition of...
by Monk Anchorwind | 4 Jan, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, In this, The Mindfulness Monologues, I have found joy to be passive. Joy is not something to be pursued but experienced by being present in the moment. The Joy of Being is available to everyone willing to stop looking too far down the road and instead...
by Monk Anchorwind | 29 Dec, 2021 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Fear is an absence of trust in the process of resolution. In other words, we believe or suspect some step in the resolution process to fail and thus leave things unresolved. Fear and anger are intrinsically related, as anger gives us the drive to protect...
by Monk Anchorwind | 23 Sep, 2021 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Why should we practice forgiveness? People need to benefit from their actions, so how does forgiveness payout? Calmness is the reward for forgiveness. Calmness is not living in a vacuum, devoid of stimuli, but instead having the mental and emotional...
by Monk Anchorwind | 16 Sep, 2021 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, What does forgiveness do? I have written about what it is and how we experience it, but what happens after the emotional dust has settled? Paradoxically, it allows for change even though us feeling the need to change was part of the problem as we were...
by Monk Anchorwind | 14 Sep, 2021 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, How does one experience forgiveness? Previously, I wrote ‘forgiveness is relieving pressure,’ but how does one understand forgiveness has been received? I pondered how forgiveness is the opposing force to guilt and how guilt is the burden of...
by Monk Anchorwind | 28 Jul, 2021 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, I wrote previously, ‘Hope is the mechanism for meaning.’ Through this concept we call ‘hope,’ we convert motivations and aspirations into actions. We may not always believe the outcome of our actions will yield consequences...
by Monk Anchorwind | 26 Feb, 2021 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Forgiving Ourselves for Demonstrating a Lack of Mastery (the death of rush limbaugh) Dear Diary, Rush Limbaugh died recently, and I allowed myself to become swept up in it for a bit. Despite his evil and damaging legacy, other people wanted to...
