mental health – Jill Eng

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 […]

February 3, 2020February 15, 2020jilleng

All Ideas Are Only Thoughts

Whether it be hope of an enduring democracy, a relationship we believed would last, or what we thought we should eat for lunch, all ideas are always only thoughts in our mind. The only real events that will or should ever occur, by any body, are those that physically do in real time. The only […]

November 14, 2019jilleng

Action Versus Doing: The Sentence Game

What is action? I view action as a sentence we can make to describe our body in the space right now. For example, I am sitting in a chair typing on the computer. That is my current action. Though we call it the present tense, this action can only be acknowledged after the fact of […]

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 13, 2019July 20, 2019jilleng

Sharing the Path: Guilt, Therapy and Self-Inquiry

As I have now been a self-published author for 6 years, have written two books and am 3 ½ years into my third, I would like to take this blog in a new direction. Thus far I have written in the style of the subject matters in my books. Being that there are many aspects […]

June 28, 2019jilleng

The Body in Real Time

I watch to see what this body does, without knowing what it will do. I marvel at the magic of movement. I fascinate at how there is always something it does. Something gets done in real time. That is what I did. That is what I do, nothing more, nothing less. It is OK […]

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 24, 2019jilleng

The Things We Have To Do

We have to do what we are doing, the things we see ourselves doing, where our body is, now, its physical, weighted placement in space, bones moving at joints, how and as they do: this action, these actions. It can be only those, not others. Can’t know why, just the way it is, all of […]

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 […]