Meditation is a lot of things. Most people have heard a set of rules for how you're "supposed to" meditate. I came to understand a few radical concepts of ease, like there is not just "one" way to meditate. So breathe in, breathe out and try something different that works for you.

The phrase came to me, quite suddenly: sensuous delight. Of course, we are living in sensory worlds--cultivating sensuous delight is about how much we stop to appreciate them. Is sensuous delight what's missing from your life?

"Faux-fear"? What's that? That fear is a distinct feeling, known in the moment it is felt, and that it only shows up in that one way. Here is how "faux fear" might be fauxing up your life.

2012 brought with it a number of revelations and revolutions, moments of WTF?!? and moments of fully-owned joy. In summation (and nothing close to the actual order of events) this year... here is the 2012 recap.