When Life Feels DisorganizedEver feel like your desk, your office, your room, your apartment, or your house is too disorganized? Or that your schedule, your sleep routine, your goals, and your priorities are getting away from you? We’ve all been there. Luckily, meditation isn’t just for sitting well. Meditation can also help with organization.When your mind is racing a mile a minute, it’s difficult to bring order to your life.…
From Path to Peace With Todd Perelmuter NewsletterHello my friend,With focus, we can choose what we focus on. We can focus on disturbing thoughts and emotions, upsetting events that may happen, which we have no control over, and unfortunate events that happened in the past that we cannot change.Or, we can focus on the blessings in our life and the positive changes we can make that are in our control.…
What kind of world would we live in if simple mindfulness were taught in every school? If it were practiced in every company? If people learned mindfulness at home, on their own computers? The world would be a very different place. Our minds project our reality. When we are mindless, we act without considering consequences. When we are unaware of the interconnected nature of all life on this planet, greed…
Very often in life, we say something we don't mean. We react in anger. We make an impulsive decision, an unconscious choice, and later regret it. With a bigger, broader perspective, we see the error in our ways and feel a sense of regret or shame about it.And we want to understand why we did this. We want to prevent it from happening again. So we have to understand the…
In meditation, we can become aware of awareness itself. The first step is simple. Close your eyes and begin by noticing your thoughts. Don’t try to change them. Just observe what the thoughts are, the nature of the thoughts, how one thought jumps to another, how they arise and how they fade away. Really look at what a thought is. As you observe your thoughts, notice something deeper: you are…
The Key to Observing Thoughts Most of the time, in our day-to-day lives, we are lost in thought, pondering various ideas without actively observing them. We are not consciously witnessing or listening to our thoughts. If we were to ask ourselves what we were thinking about a minute ago, most of the time, unless we've been fixated on something all day, we'd have no idea. The key to observing our…
It must feel better to go into video games or VR or escape into any show, into anything, when your life is not in alignment with what you intended. But here’s the thing: If I don’t like my life, if I don’t like my present moment, then I need to give that moment my undivided attention. That moment that is incompatible with what I want in life, that is the…
Whenever we find ourselves going into autopilot mode, one of the things we can do to snap ourselves out of it is to bring our attention back to ourselves. Something we don’t usually do. Especially when we're doing something, we rarely notice how we’re breathing. And usually we're not breathing great. Usually, we’re holding our breath a lot, or shallow breathing, so we’re not expanding our belly. And often, we’re…
Children see everything as new, everything is mysterious and they're curious. Adults jump to conclusions, and we're certain, and we already know everything. So to get back to that childlike wonder, we have to focus on the cause of that, which is our comparative mindset. We compare this moment to the last. We compare this thing to the same thing we saw yesterday. But every moment is different. The light…
Whether we are aware of them or not, we all have negative thoughts that, on a subconscious and unconscious level, stir up stress and tension within our mind and body. In fact, when we are not aware of them, uncomfortable thoughts can easily become repressed, suppressed, and denied. While stuffing them down may be preferable to dealing with them, from a holistic perspective, these disturbing thoughts can turn into chronic…
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