Because we cannot divide time into segments, our body is really in one stream of physical movement from the moment it is conceived (and of course continuous with the moment before that). There is no beginning or end to our activities even though we identify them in our mind as specific individual actions. In the […]
Tag: non-attachment
A Perspective on the Future
It is interesting to realize that this present moment and the action we are currently in, is the future of our past moments. We are currently “in the future” we imagined in the past. Since our idea of the future often makes us feel nervous because we worry that we won’t prepare well to get […]
This is the Answer to That
When thinking about problems in our life we look for answers. That is what our mind does; it hunts around for the issues that are thorny in our life and tries to find solutions. It does this with everything that comes up mentally for us. As I have discussed in all of my writings, […]
New Book!
My new book, The Myth of Doing: managing guilt, shame, anxiety, regret and self-judgment is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle (you can also order this book from any bookstore). Here is the link and below is a description of the book: This book validates who we are and what we do, despite our mind’s […]
For Now
For now, we have to be doing what we are doing, and it will always be now. No amount of thinking can alter that reality. In the future, it will always be now. That is a physical reality, so we may as well surrender mentally, and wait to see what life has in store. What […]
We Are Always Productive
From my book, Body Over Mind, A Mindful Reality Check Many of us criticize ourself for being inactive; we feel like we do not do enough with our time, or we do the wrong things. What is indispensable for countering this judgment is the knowledge that we can only, ever, be doing the thing we […]
The Issue of Waiting
An excerpt from my book, Body Over Mind, a mindful reality check The answer to every question in our life will be disclosed to us some time after now. Therefore, when we worry about things happening or not happening, we must wait to find out. This is an aspect of reality that regularly causes us […]
A Thought is a Thought is a Thought
All day long thoughts tell us what we should be doing and what should be happening in our life. It is so completely natural for us to believe these internal recordings that feel so right and familiar. How can it be that these programs are wrong? In my work, which is similar to that of […]
Introduction to my book, Body Over Mind, a mindful reality check
The Illusion of Effort F.M. Alexander, Byron Katie, and Robert Rabbin, three renowned, awareness-based educators, all illuminate the fact that the usual way we perceive ourself, and our behavior, is through our thought process which these three deem to be an unreliable source for acquiring a sense of personal reality. Specifically, what their outlooks have […]
Real Time vs. Thought Time
An excerpt from my book Body Over Mind, a mindful reality check In our mind’s eye problems should resolve quickly, while in actuality they can work themselves out very gradually. Though our physical behavior moves sequentially with the clock, thought does not. Thoughts skip around in ways that make us feel like we can jump […]
Jill Eng 