Literally everyone wants to be happy and life is full of change and discomfort. Body aches, death in the news or in our lives, difficult conversations etc. are all examples of pain that we all experience eventually. We like something and want to hold onto it but then it changes. This causes us to doContinue reading “Meditation”
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Loving Kindness
Loving kindness (metta) meditation has been elusive to me before recently. “May you be happy, may you be happy, may you be kind” sounded so cheesy to me. I have, in the past, prided myself on being cynical and skeptical (I am still relatively skeptical of everything to start out with). I consider myself aContinue reading “Loving Kindness”
8 Bit Cardboard Wizard’s Stress Relief Manifesto
Stress will kill us if we don’t deal with it. I use the energy to engage with a hobby or I do one of these. Deep Breathing Breathing techniques are great. I use the Oak App to guide my deep breathing exercises. It is simple and quick and can reset your stress levels instantly. MeditationContinue reading “8 Bit Cardboard Wizard’s Stress Relief Manifesto”
Why Forgiveness is My Favorite Spell
Forgiveness is a personal journey. I never want to tell anyone else how to live their life. Something that I find infinitely rewarding in my own life is forgiving those around me for large and small things alike. I want to make some things clear before I talk about why I love forgiveness and whyContinue reading “Why Forgiveness is My Favorite Spell”
Top 10 Books
Here are my top ten books at this point in my life. Here were the rules I made for myself: Just name the series name if it was in a series. These have to be the most influential books to my creativity that I have ever read. 1. The Lord of the Rings – TolkienContinue reading “Top 10 Books”
What Secular Buddhism Means to Me
This page is a little different. It’s not about imagination or art. It’s about ideas I hold as truths. I just want to restate that this page is not me telling someone else how to live, its just about what makes me happy. These ideas and practicing meditation are the realest forms of magic IContinue reading “What Secular Buddhism Means to Me”
