gratitude – Jill Eng

September 13, 2022jilleng

Freedom in Meditation and Effortlessness

Below is the first paragraph of the Preface of my first book, Body Over Mind: a mindful reality check: attaining psychological freedom by confronting thought with reality. “In my early 20’s, I found myself suffering from anxiety. I was dating someone at the time who exposed me to readings that embraced themes like effortlessness and […]

August 13, 2022August 21, 2022jilleng

Mindful Reality: Desire and Acceptance

In this Video Q&A, I answer Abigail’s question on desire and acceptance 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 connection between them, so it […]

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020jilleng

Masking

What a concept. Who would have imagined we would be in a situation where we would be covering our faces? I remember when the pandemic first began and there were photos of teens in China wearing masks. It seemed foreign to me. Now it seems normal. I make my own masks out of old sweatpants. […]

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 […]

June 23, 2020June 24, 2020jilleng

My Pink Beach Chair

I have been diligently working at finishing my third book, which has been years in the making, while I recently began a fourth! This is exciting as I appreciate the continued writing in this body of work I adore so much. However, it may be why my blogging has dropped away and I miss it. […]

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 23, 2019jilleng

Sharing the Path: Perimenopause and Writing

In my new endeavor to highlight the individual behind the words (here on this blog), I will not shy away from discussing all aspects of my life that impact the writer/author that I have become. Though for many women this topic will be commonplace, there will be readers who will not see the connection between […]

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 […]

February 15, 2019jilleng

Your Life Is Set

Your life is set, like a table. You are always there, here, in a place among other things, people, surfaces. You can brace against that physical life-setting by tensing your muscles and fighting in your thoughts, or not. Either way, you are still occupying that space, physically (like part of a table-setting), in a room, […]