Can’t Sleep? Meditate!
It’s four o’clock in the morning, there’s nothing on the calendar, no phones ringing, and the laptop is sleeping — even if you aren’t. So why not use this time to meditate like the monks and mystics do?
The Royal Road to Joyful Dreams
When you journey to the unconscious, bring a map During a recent trip to Mexico, where I’d come to present a program on Dreaming Toward Bliss at a conference on dreams and healing, I did …
Where Om’s Meet Z’s: Dreamwork as Meditation
A mindful approach to dreamwork In classical meditation, we sit and observe the contents of our minds without judgment. We notice when thoughts arise, but we don’t engage with them, and we wach as they …
Rainbow Dreams: A Post-Hurricane Post
Shortly before I was scheduled to offer a program on “The Yoga of Dreams,” at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, I dreamed I saw dark stormy clouds nearly obscuring the retreat’s palm tree-dense property. This wasn’t …
A Mindful Routine for Sleep and Dreaming
To Benefit from Your Dreams, Go to Sleep Dreaming offers a host of benefits, from the pure enjoyment of entering a nightly multiplex that plays an endless array of comedies, dramas, and more … to …
Follow your dreams … No, really! (“On the Path”–A Corner View* post)
Some people say, “Follow your dreams,” and they are just parroting some expression they heard. But when I say it, I mean it! My dreams have led me to jobs, to relationships, and right up …
The Guru at the Door
Welcome your dreams In the wide-awake world of constant connectivity and 24-7 access to entertainment and information, we tend to treat our dreams as if they were flotsam and jetsam, washed up by some mysterious tide, and …
Long Time Gone (& back again)
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a chance to post here. Those of you who know me know there’s been a lot going on in my waking life (almost as much as in …
Q&A: Can Dreams Help Me Evolve Spiritually? (Namaste, Dreamer!)
Q: How can dreams best be used to evolve one’s spiritual being? Signed, Evolving A: Maybe it’s because I just got back from my weekly yoga class at the Y, but for some reason your …
Elephant (and mouse) Dreams
Second dream first I’ll begin by telling you the second dream, in which my yoga teacher was showing me a picture of an elephant. Within the dream I thought, that’s my second dream about an …