Here we are – at the end of the year, maybe looking back and wondering how it all happened the way it did. Maybe holding some grudges or deep resentments…or shame about how we showed up. The good news is, if we want to, we now have a chance to do things differently.

We’ve arrived at the final few days of the year, and how we participate in this transition will set the tone for the next one to come. If we want to be active creators of our own life instead of massive observers of our life (letting things happen TO us), it’s important to get clear and move, think, and feel with intention.

Lovingkindness is foundational to cultivating wisdom and compassion in our mindfulness practice. A lot of people feel like mindfulness is a peaceful and relatively sterile thing where we are aware of our surroundings, but I’ve found that at deeper levels of mindfulness, there is also an element of love.

There are dichotomies everywhere. It’s part of nature, and we are all a part of that.

Today is about one thing that could make a huge difference in your life – with relationships, health, creativity, and especially our mental health.

This week, we’re going to dive deeper into more tools and concepts. The first is cognitive bias, which is a function of our brain that searches for evidence of what we already believe to be true instead of what is actually true.