Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Alan Watts. In one of his journal entries he describes something he calls the paradox of happiness or the backwards law. Happiness is something that we all would like to have. Ask a little kid what he wants to be…
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My writing career, for what it is, got started back in 2018 with a self-study of the Yamas and the Niyamas. Each week I focused on one, and then posted a little meditation and small excerpt of how I did with that focus point…
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It’s been a while since I’ve submitted anything to the site where I can say my writing journey began. The last article I wrote was posted on June 24, 2022. During the interim, life has come and gone as it usually does and I can honestly say that…
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I first began writing for Held In The Heart in July of 2019. Beth was my first ever yoga teacher in Los Angeles and though she had relocated, we had kept in touch through social media. At the time, I took it upon myself to go through a weekly…
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A recent struggle of mine has been with the idea of non-attachment. I say recent because I’ve become exceedingly aware of it lately, but really I’ve been struggling with the concept since the day I began to learn about Buddhism. Buddhist…
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This morning, I woke up without an alarm. It was the first time that I can remember doing that in what seems like months. Recently there has always been something to do and even if I know I can sleep in a little late, I’ve made it a point to at least…
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I’ve always enjoyed the Catholic idea of saints. I can’t say that I ever understood what an angel was or why they might be important, but a saint was something that I could get behind. We could get deep into the nitty gritty of the canonization…
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Once upon a time, a boy was born in a small farming village. His family was not wealthy but they did not lack for food or shelter. As the boy reached adolescence, his father brought him out into the fields and taught him how to work the land…
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