mentalhealth – Jill Eng

August 21, 2022jilleng

Learning How to Accept Life

In this Video Q&A, I address Sam’s question about learning how to accept life 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 does […]

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 […]

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, […]

May 17, 2018May 19, 2018jilleng

Beyond Tension and Belief

Tension blocks perception. It makes us believe things that aren’t true. It evokes a feeling that we drum up thoughts and actions that really do themselves. Physical/mental tension relays an impression of personal causation, self-created productivity. Tension fashions an illusion, but it is not that difficult to see through. When we have a new idea, […]

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 […]

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018jilleng

Soothing the Mind

Give the mind what it wants; it likes to have something to focus on. Minds like attachments and we don’t have to deprive them of this. We just need to give them the right ones so there isn’t so much anxiety. Generally, we obsess over our mental/emotional attachments because we don’t know how to get […]

April 12, 2018jilleng

Come Out of Tension

Though it seems like tension and stressful thinking assist with the things we believe we need to do in our life, they do not. Our real life physical actions have nothing to do with the mental and physical efforts we feel and identify with; they are purely muscular, lending to an inner sensation of […]

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018jilleng

Like Seeing Through a Microscope

Observing what I refer to as our macro organism with our naked eye (looking at our skin and body parts) is like viewing our insides cellularly, molecularly, or atomically via a microscope. With the former, it is like looking through a microscope; we must sidestep our mind’s eye which blocks our direct vision of […]