Integrative Pathways to Healing

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My Pitta loves Winter!

My Pitta loves Winter!

My Pitta loves Winter! You may wonder what is my Pitta? It’s my predominant dosha. What’s that? Dosha is a central theme in Ayurveda medicine, which can be translated as “that which can cause problems.” It refers to three categories or types of substances...
Love is All Around

Love is All Around

Love is all around “We can search the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of our love and affection than we are ourselves, and we won’t find that person anywhere.” Sharon Salzberg quoting Buddha I was so struck by these words of Sharon Salzberg who said...
Pandemic Blessings

Pandemic Blessings

“This will be over in just a couple of weeks.”  I remember saying to my daughter on the phone in the first days of the pandemic lock down. “Don’t think so mom,” she replied saying that it would at least be a few months.  Then a few days later I heard an interview with...
Meditation: What am  I thinking?

Meditation: What am I thinking?

Here is a brief meditation exercise you can experiment with to explore mindfulness of thoughts “A thought is harmless unless we believe it.  It’s not our thoughts but our attachment to our thoughts that causes suffering.  Attaching to a thought means believing that...