Category: Meditation

Christmas in October? I walked into Home Depot yesterday to get some supplies for a window restoration project and was surprised to see they already have their Christmas merchandise on display. On October 13th? Christmas? It had the desired effect.  The lifeless artificial blinking Christmas...

These days I can hardly keep up with the health tech devices exploding into the market. Many come across my screen and I must admit I am engaged and often I am about ready to press the button to buy another one and then realize that just might be the moment I need to click another button. The one...

As school started last week, my daughter entered her senior year. She was looking forward to being back at school to see her friends but had one specific mission last week—to help as many scared freshmen as she could. When she was a freshman, she was terrified. She put up a good front, but her...

Happy Almost March! I've been musing about the mixed messages around sitting. One day the headlines scream, "Sitting is the new smoking!" and "Sitting is Killing You" or an article pops up about "The Sitting Disease". Here sitting means the time at your desk or on the couch. The next day the...

I was thinking over the weekend that it feels ironic that some days I am spreading the work to get your body moving and other days I am all about sitting still in meditation. It feels like opposing messages. They are opposite, but not opposing. We need both. One of the beautiful gifts of the...

[audio m4a="/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dreaming-and-easy-pose.m4a"][/audio]   Today I'm unexpectedly sitting in my new living room. I had intended to move and was imagining it would be January or February. Then it all just happened, with ease. This has not been the usual way of things...

Listen to Alice Dommert read the post here. [audio m4a="/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/A-Mindful-Jewel.m4a"][/audio]   My latest favorite magazine is called mindful: taking time for what matters. When the October issue arrived a week ago I must admit I did not recognize the woman on...

Join Alice Dommert for a 5-minute Mindfulness Meditation. [audio m4a="/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/5-minute-Mindfulness-Meditation.m4a"][/audio]

Join Alice Dommert for a 5-minute Relaxation Meditation. [audio m4a="/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/5-Minute-Relaxation-Meditation.m4a"][/audio]

Perhaps we are taking the mindful thing a bit too far? I'm in Chicago and came across EPIC Burger...and the awning reads "A more mindful burger". Hmmm...can a burger be mindful? Much less more mindful? More mindful than what? Another kind of burger? And where is the evidence of this...