Three Month Stay: I was Iron Ore in the Clear Sky Forge
I Was Iron Ore in the Clear Sky Forge By Ignacio Dirdam
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Why Anxiety is Worth Getting Excited About
Do you ever feel anxious? I do, quite often. But, it’s turning into a lot of fun. I’ve realised my baseline anxiety is actually a reservoir and asset, for a really really exciting life.
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Making Friends with the Monkey Mind
On the other hand, have you ever experienced sitting down to meditate, and watching the mind gradually calm down? I hope so, and I guess we might call that a “good meditation” compared to ones where we feel like the monkey mind dominated the show.
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How to Be Kind to Yourself
As spiritual warriors, then, we’re trying to stay on the path that leads to awakening. Anytime we veer off the path, or even pause and step off it for a moment, our progress is slowed.
The point of seeing the “sin” is to remember the path we were meant to be on – it’s not about being at fault.
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How to fit hours of meditation into your working day
Instead of going through your day as you normally would, dedicate the day to looking at a particular question. It just takes a few minutes to reframe your day.
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Three ways to keep your meditation practice going
Ways to keep your meditation practice going When I first started meditating,
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That ‘bad day’ doesn’t exist
What are our judgements based on? As you read the first paragraph, and all of this article, what conditions are influencing your judgement of the experience?
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Let’s Talk About x, Baby
When was the last time you had an open, in-depth conversation about your attitude to money? Or to sex?
On such taboo topics, it’s rare that we consciously face what lies underneath our surface reactions and responses to them. Yet, sometimes we have to face them, and it may not be pretty.
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How Our Stories [email protected]*! With Us
Many of us are living and working in different ways, and yet something hasn’t changed: we’re still prone to our internal dialogues about what’s going on around us, and within us.
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What Does it Mean to Be in a Good State, Anyway?
If our first responsibility is our own state, before we go fixing others’, then what does it mean to be in a good state?
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So That Happened – Now What?
How different do your days look recently? Even without the backdrop of
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What I Never Asked My Dad – And Why it Matters Now
I don’t have full recall of that evening, and yet obviously either I didn’t ask, or he didn’t give much of an answer. So, something in me doesn’t expect much of an answer, doesn’t expect to get to the bottom of things. It might be family or cultural conditioning, of course, and yet the why is no longer relevant.
As a spiritual warrior, having seen the pattern, the idea is to see what happens when we consciously try to do something different.
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How I Stopped Being a Workaholic (and Realized Why I Started)
When you’re caught in a spiral of overworking, you might want to have a good look at how this started and whether it’s really working for you.
Interrupting such strong patterns takes courage.
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Learning To Speak Up for Myself
Partly from seeing the different effects of these experiments, I’ve noticed how powerful words can be when we’re in conversations.
Now, I try to be more skillful and flexible when talking with other people.
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I Don’t Have Time to Be Compassionate
I admitted that I find myself walking through the school halls, head down, hoping no one will talk to me – not because I don’t like them, but because I’m thinking “If I talk to them I won’t get to what I need to do to start my day”.
When I’m in this mode, I’m not being kind to myself and I don’t notice what others need, whether it’s just a smile or a few minutes of my time.
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Why You Should Zen-Up Your Space
There’s another benefit to a well-honoured space: it brings out all of our hidden fidgets, shining a light on our inability to sit still. When there’s clutter, anxiousness can hide under the auspices of needing to clean and tidy and organize.
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Two Views on How Dharma Heals Us
Here we share two of the shorter pieces from our Great Healing series, written by Maureen Smith and Richard Nathaniel.
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How I Learned Greater Self Love
Over millennia, spiritual guides have been saying the same thing, that love
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How I Stopped Being an Anxious Person
My default state used to be anxiety, with some fear thrown in
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Healing my Confusion
I now feel empowered to follow the advice of one of the teachers at Clear Sky, to “Take action, and let the chips fall where they may.”
After all, a pattern of confusion stems from and continues a hurt. Being empowered to act brings joy.
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Fear and the Great Healing
Even as we heal and awaken ourselves, then, we affect all of humanity. So go do the work, for the sake of all sentient beings.
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