I prefer to set New Year's intentions rather than to make resolutions. It may seem like a matter of semantics, yet I believe it is deeper than that. Resolutions, to me, have a sense of immobility, of rigidness. It feels like something placed on me from the outside, rather than something coming from within me. I feel resolutions as something I have to do or should do. I don't know about you, but when I am told that I should do something, even if the message comes from myself, I feel a wall of resistance rise up in me, a sense of pushing away. When that happens it removes the joy from the path of action towards the goal of the resolution, and also diminishes the amount of joy I feel when I reach the goal, if I ever even get there!

An intention, on the other hand, feels like an invitation, an offering, something given to me rather than demanded from me. ​

I'm glad you have stopped by!

Through this Reflection page, I will be initiating conversations with you to invite connection. I'll be sharing my thoughts on things that inspire curiosity, feed the journey of inquiry, stir creative energies, and open my heart to love and compassion in the hopes of similar inspiration for you.

When we approach mindfulness practice, in whatever forms we choose, with these qualities of mind: curiosity, inquiry, creativity, love and compassion, we are more engaged and enlivened by the practice and are apt to return to it regularly.