Mindfulness is part of our lives every moment of every day throughout our lives. Sometimes we are fully present to our experience in this moment. At those times we are in the best position to make positive decisions about how we relate to what is happening to us and around us.

At other times, we are distracted or confused or simply heedless to our experience. In those times we are more easily driven by our cravings and our aversions or simply deluded about how life is. Suffering is born out of these heedless moments.

In order to wake up to our lives in every moment, we need to practice. In a way, we are practicing to be happy. Our minds naturally incline toward searching out and identifying problems. Many of us are familiar with how our “searchlight” mind becomes more active in the quiet of night.

And yet what we all want more than anything is to be happy. As the Dalai Lama once famously said, “Everybody wants happiness! Nobody wants suffering!”

So we need to practice happiness. And we can practice in many different ways.

In this page, I’ll be listing resources for mindfulness in various arenas - mindful movement, mindful eating, the formal practices of mindfulness.

I’ll also be offering short guided meditations and other practices for cultivating a greater awareness of our experience of our bodies, our feelings, our minds and thoughts toward growing greater wisdom in what one of my teachers Larry Rosenberg called “the art of living.”