fear – Jill Eng

September 4, 2022jilleng

Fear of Feelings

In this Video Q&A, I address Charlotte’s resistance to her feelings and her struggle in even identifying what they are, through the lens of this work, Mindful Reality. If you are interested in personalized recordings and/or would like to view Q&A episodes before this, please click HERE. And finally, although these are presented as episodes, there is no […]

March 28, 2020jilleng

Don’t Be Fooled by Your Imaginings

You really are somewhere very specific, but perhaps believe you shouldn’t be. That is so odd to consider. Why would someone doubt reality? The attachment to the surface we’re on, right now (chair, couch, bed, floor, ground), is just as absolute as the attachment of our ribs to our spine. The surface is undeniably that […]

March 23, 2020jilleng

Mindful Reality and the Coronavirus

I am thinking about my readers, those who have found my writing helpful in the past, whether you have read my books or just enjoyed my blogging. It is a time of buckling down to practices that soothe and bring us out of unnecessary mental stress. Easier said than done, I know, however, it is […]

June 27, 2018June 27, 2018jilleng

The Only Right Answer

The only right answer to all the questions and feelings we have about how we should be handling any situation in our life, including the pain and urgency we may feel to counter the changes we are currently witnessing in our country (and world), is the physical activity we are in right now. As it […]

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018jilleng

Emotionally Invested in the Unknown

I recently started painting (above and below), something I have never done before, and barely entertained the idea of. This has spurred my curiosity about my “future” as well as stirred some fear over not-knowing. Though I have had many shifts in my personal, work and artistic lives, I am always taken off guard when […]

May 12, 2018jilleng

Guaranteed for Life

We like guarantees. They are reliable, effectively predictable. Here is one. If we are alive, our body is somewhere. Yeah, so what? Big deal! Well, it is a big deal because it isn’t how our mind perceives our predicament. We don’t sense that we are always somewhere because we mentally live inside our head, spinning […]