On the difference between the space where experience happens and the things that happen in it. A thought arises as you read this sentence. Perhaps a thought about whether you agree with what you are reading. Perhaps a thought about what to make for dinner. Perhaps just a stray observation about the room you are in. Whatever it is, notice that it arose. The very act of noticing a thought also indicates that there is a "something" doing the noticing. Something that is not the t

On the act of directing your awareness, and what it is not. You are standing at the kitchen counter waiting for the kettle to boil. Your eyes dash around. They are on the kettle, the dishes in the sink, yesterday's mail on the counter. Your hand is resting on the counter. The kettle has yet to whistle. In this moment, where is your attention? For many of us it is somewhere else entirely. It is on what happened earlier. It is on what is coming next. It is on the conversation y

On the words we don't have for what is happening inside us, and why having them matters. It's 3am. You wake up with a feeling. You are not sure what it is. Is it anxiousness? Are you scared? Is it just that your bedroom is too hot? The mind, always at the ready to provide an explanation, gets to work immediately. It offers narratives that fit the limited data it has. Maybe it was that conversation yesterday. Maybe it's the thing at work. Maybe it's something old, something de

On the radio program we live inside, the sovereignty of attention, and the practice of placing awareness on the life that is actually here. Most of us spend our days with our attention glued to the thoughts in our head. There is a near-constant narration running underneath everything. A voice describing what is happening, anticipating what will happen, replaying what already happened, judging it all on the way through. The mind is a useful tool. But often it can also be an en