a simple time of peace
A Recipe for A STOP Ingredients: one day (or more as desired) a space of protected solitude (apartment, secluded pirate hideout, whatever) two healthy meals and healthy snack one decadent meal and...
View Articlegetting to know fear
Scaredy-Dance “I do not think you can get rid of the fear… but you can dance with it.” — Seth Godin I came across this quote in the excellent 99U newsletter and it had a resonance to my mantra of...
View Articlecreating a bit of nowhere to know where you are
Know-Where Man Location is a funny thing these days. Many of our devices are location-aware, so I can tell my phone “Remind me to take in the car seat when I get home” and it will actually wait until...
View ArticleCreating Your Own Lover’s Day
It’s about three weeks until that dreaded Hallmark consumerfest known as “Valentine’s Day.” Some of my consumer clients for whom I write newsletters have already begun to use the holiday as an excuse...
View ArticleProtected: The Love Life Practice Meditation Book (Patrons Only)
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View ArticleThe Battle of Wills
There’s a conflict that rages every morning the moment I first drift into waking consciousness. It first manifests by my social media (aka the Gravy Hose) craving, when I wonder What have I missed in...
View ArticleTwo Unexpected Benefits of Meditation
I’ve talked a lot about the many benefits – both personal and reported – of meditation. It’s one of the few lifehacks that both lives up to the reputation and has been relatively simple to do...
View Article3 Reasons Mindfulness Won’t Work for You
Recently my partner and I were startled by a tweet, popularly reposted by several of…
View ArticleBubble Wrap and Chrome
"Shifting from mindful to mindless work gives the brain time to process complex problems in…
View ArticleGuest Post: THE 3-STEP MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE
I welcome Natasha Bounds from Intention at Home to the Love Life Practice team, and…
View ArticleThe Life of Shadows
…they are spending their time in pursuit of things that don’t make them happy so much…
View ArticleSelf-Sabotage and Love
One of the themes that has always fascinated me is the idea of “self-sabotage”. Everyone…
View Article“How you like me now?” – How I Sit
In the “How you like me now?” Series, I take a blog post from the very beginning of Love Life Practice seven years ago and see how well things have held up. This post comes from November of 2011 (so...
View ArticleThree Unexpected Benefits of Doing Your Morning Ritual (especially when you...
Things have been kind of rough chez Gray. It’s not unexpected. I made a deliberate career pivot a few months ago, deciding to forego the traveling facilitator gig to try and find more stable and...
View ArticleHow to Make Meditation the Best Part of Your Day
I used to hate meditation. Raised with a particular version of by-your-bootstraps Judeo-Christian work ethic that idolized “pioneers” (in quotes because they were actually colonizers), I had a real...
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