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Tag: Mindfulness

Protected: Behind My Fingers [REBOOT]

December 13, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now

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There is Only Action [Video]

September 22, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

No amount of thinking will change anything. Only action makes change.

It’s ironic that our thoughts are the only part of us that lack agency and yet they are obsessed with telling the universe what to do.

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The Present Moment [Video]

September 20, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

The battle to relinquish thoughts and stay present in the now.

The very presence of such thoughts steals our attention away from that moment; they are a convincing distraction that appears to be our “reality,” but actually serve to obscure it from us.

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Someone Else [Video]

September 18, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

What would it be like to be someone else?

I must look different than I feel inside.
My long hair must look like a symbol of rebellion (instead of laziness).
My tight shirt and baggy pants, a symbol of class (and not my forgetting to do the laundry).

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Resistance is Futile [Video]

September 14, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

No one can escape the passage of time.

Even the most fearful avoidance of the
future’s arrival fails to remove its approach;
resistance is futile.

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Only This Moment [Video]

September 12, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Stuck in my head and inattentive to the world around me.

We will NEVER find ourselves without the present moment. This moment, and ONLY THIS moment, is the one viewpoint we will ever have to peek through into our minds and into the universe…

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Neurofeedback Meditation [Video]

September 10, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Poetic reflections after a neurofeedback session.

Hesitation holds my hands immobile at the lack of planned direction.
Taps from tips of fingers on keys, this new flow of script plays like a
first piano lesson: slow, forced, and without rhythm.

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Meditation Advice 2 [Video]

September 8, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Reflections and advice on mindfulness meditation.

Observe your distractions closely with loving curiosity.
Embrace the process of losing focus to find focus.
Replace anxiety, frustration, and impatience,
With trust, determination, and relinquishment,
By gently directing your mind as often as needed.

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Meditation Advice 1 [Video]

September 6, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Reflections and advice on mindfulness meditation.

Realize that you are not making yourself breathe.
You were breathing before you started meditation.
You will continue to breathe after meditation.
You are breathing during meditation,
Even when your focus has been distracted.

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Five Months of Gratitude [Video]

September 2, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Reflections on being 6 months sober.

Now I have the chance to look forward to holidays,
weddings, dates, anything else that comes my way.
It brings a cautiously warm smile to my soul.

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Attending Attention [Video]

August 31, 2024May 23, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

An mindful observation of paying attention to your thoughts and actions.

That’s the true beauty of Nature’s creativity:
No one ever intended to be born.

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Accept Yourself [Video]

August 29, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Exploring mindful happiness.

Happiness is what remains when you let go of the need for control, and instead accept yourself and the world around you- as it is now, not how it “should be.”

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Static of Synapse [Video]

August 27, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A poem on mindful observation of self and the present reality.

I think, therefore I am.
Cognition grants reality to forces
Of mortal temperament and the
Senses securing them to this world.
Only reflection can reveal existence’s
Grace in a plane of such material nature,
Eternally crafting external context
For the memoirs of its course…

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Meditations on Meditation [Video]

August 21, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Reflections on meditation.

Cultivating compassion. Practicing Mindfulness. Living sober.
These are all things I aspire to bring into my daily life.
When the moment comes to meditate, I resist and distract.
When compassion is needed, I often choose frustration.
Why do I still think about drinking after six months sober?

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Children [Video]

August 19, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Teaching children mindful values.


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A Muddy Mess [Video]

August 13, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Longing for a purpose in this life.

Old habits await my mind’s stalling,
Chemical dependencies crawling at my mouth,
But I sit them out, patiently waiting for
Something- anything- else to fill my time. br /> One minute at a time, as they say.

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Legs Wrapped in Blankets [Video]

August 11, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A bored anxious night with insomnia.

Finding a home in the trivial moment,
I sit and accept each thought and second,
each one passing into the next.
So what if frustration graces my mood?

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At Least For Now- Part 2 [Video]

August 9, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Part 2 of "At Least for Now"

So at least for now, I am loved.
At least for now, I am worth it.
At least for now, I can say I'm giving myself a shot.
Words are powerful and so are stories.

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At Least For Now- Part 1 [Video]

August 9, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Part 1 of "At Least for Now"

So at least for now, I am loved.
At least for now, I am worth it.
At least for now, I can say I'm giving myself a shot.
Words are powerful and so are stories.

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A Quiet Blessing [Video]

August 3, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

A brief exercise in senses and meditative silence.

This moment holds a pleasant scene of silent love,
and security shared passively in each other's arns,

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Sit and Breathe [Video]

August 1, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I have to remember to calm the mind and settle on the breath.

I struggle greatly to remain equanimous and centered in life...
but if I have the capacity to sit still and meditate, I have a chance at peace.

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Breathe Now [Video]

July 30, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I need to meditate instead of writing about mindfulness.

It's time to put down the pen and breathe.

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Shut Off the Television [Video]

July 28, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

I can't THINK my way into insight. I can only clear a space for it.

I want to shut off the television and listen to the birds sing.
Maybe then I can find that inner peace I've
been missing all these years stuck in my head.

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My ADHD Meditations [Video]

July 4, 2024April 24, 2024 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

Luckily, meditation is about noticing the inevitable distractions, not about learning to focus better.

It’s not about learning to have better focus but instead, it’s about learning when we’ve already become distracted and gently returning back to our intentions.

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Tu Me Connais [Video]

June 30, 2024May 19, 2025 ~ Inspiracy Now ~ Leave a comment

My 7th grade class had meetings on Bullying, but people thought It wasn't affecting me... It hurt.

"What about kids like Drew?
He doesn't care, he smiles and laughs,
Surely he isn't hurt!"
She spoke up against them for me,
"You don't know that!"
They sure know about me now.

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