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Detachment From Outcome

In an ideal world, and when I’m being my better me, detachment from outcome is one of my main guiding principles. (more…)

Mindfulness: a case study from Stephen King

Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ has a very powerful opening scene: a commercial pilot is at the flight deck, making the final arrangements with his assistant before taking off, when his boss comes in to give him some terrible news: (more…)

Micromanage your chores… go!

Here is a simple house tip you can apply to your most loathed chores (and maybe to another ones, too).

In my case, the chore is washing the dishes. I don’t (more…)

The hand of thought

(The title of this post is suggested byOpening the Hand of Thought‘, by Ven. Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. I haven’t read it (yet), but I’m sure I’ll find a lot in common with the interests expressed in here).

I see thought as a life force, as a spring always moving along. As we’re continuously floating on such an heterogeneous matter, negative thoughts are (more…)

Keep the faith (and remember where!)

I am a person who has faith in a lot of things, but I don’t think I’ve ever had blind faith. I wonder if such thing as blind faith really exists. I think there’s something really screwed up in the definition of (more…)

Emotion spotting – how to do it

The really extro–verted ways of our human society oblige most of us, its members, to be kind of self-taught about how to deal with our inner worlds. There are increasing and very brave attempts of acknowledgement of such worlds, but for most of the people emotions, feelings and ‘all that stuff’ are regarded as a world of ‘ghosts’, and ghosts are (more…)

Another inner battle: codependency

I got in contact with the issue of codependency merely by chance, as I was looking for better ways to interact with a person with a problem of addiction. I had a feeling that I was not going anywhere and (more…)

Clicking buttons of the mind

I am always very aware of my inner space (I am not sure it is that ‘inner’ anymore). There are days when I feel some kind of abstract uneasiness, something that is not feeling right, some kind of fuzzy open loop, (more…)

Entering the flow

A person in the state of flow is something beautiful to see, like a burst of clean laughter, like a children playing on the ground. (more…)

Of the invisible and crucial

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I have a few cases of depression going on in my world (I myself practice depression now and then, but just as a humble amateur ;) ), and there is an important improvement opportunity that I have noticed, common to all of them. (more…)