awareness – Jill Eng

September 16, 2022December 28, 2022jilleng

Feeling Pressure to Do Something to Fix Our Life

This is an example of my practice Mindful Reality. Please find below a 7 minute video of me addressing emotional pressure with regard to “should” thoughts and the belief there is a way to “do” something about our problems. I explain why this is a myth, because we are always, already in a state of […]

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022jilleng

A New Website/Blogsite

Hi All, I wanted to make you aware of a new website/blogsite I have created here for the sole purpose of my practice as a teacher in the Alexander Technique. Though you can access information about Alexander lessons on this website you are currently on, the new site offers blog posts/articles that are only about […]

July 1, 2021July 25, 2021jilleng

Summer Offerings

Hi All, It has been a while since I last posted. Strange year for us all! I am still working slowly yet consistently on my third book and some other related projects (I have been building an online course on Mindful Reality and am contemplating turning the 100+ Blog posts accumulated on this site into […]

June 30, 2020jilleng

Watch What You Do

This has been the general theme of my work since the inception of my first book in 2008. It provides a lifelong practice of countering the habitual thought process, “What should I do?” When receiving this question from my mind, it’s fun to respond with “Watch what I do” because they sound so alike. If […]

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020jilleng

Who Knows?

I found a road to walk where there are almost no people. This suits my needs during these times, and I am grateful for the space to romp and exercise. 15 minutes up, 15 minutes back. It’s near a beach I came upon where there are also few people. As a writer, I am used […]

August 27, 2019jilleng

The Answer to All Our Problems

Fall is coming here in Maine. I can feel it. It’s been a few weeks I can sense the change; although we will still get some hot days this week. So interesting to have the evenings and nights cooler. There is a mixed feeling of pleasure and darkness with fall and winter around the corner. […]

August 4, 2019March 4, 2020jilleng

Sharing the Path: My Tour of Mindfulness

Mindfulness has always come easily to me, or I should say I’ve been drawn to it for a long time. The concept of “what is” made sense to me in my early 20’s when having a discussion with my father about goals in life. We were having some conversation at my grandparent’s house, about what […]

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019jilleng

Sharing the Path: Politics and Reality

I have often wondered how my background academic educational career in International Relations connects to the part of me that writes books on the body, mindfulness and philosophy. We are used to compartmentalizing different fields and pursuits instead of seeing them as part of a whole. It has only been in light of the recent […]

May 16, 2019jilleng

Under the Effort

Under our mental and muscular effort we see our body in the space, weight falling onto some surface, bones moving in some capacity. Under our mental and muscular effort we realize our body is already in some specific action, doing something. Under our mental and muscular effort we understand what real action is […]

April 11, 2019jilleng

True Nature

True nature is what is, not what we believe should be (if it’s not what’s happening). We must abide. There are no options other than what nature provides. Bad guys are part of nature. They exist equally to all else. When they will be gone, we will know because we will see. Movement is movement. It all […]