Category: The Mind/Body/Universe Connection

  • Man cave meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 20, 2014 For this one, sire, stay in bed.No one ever need know you are traveling within if you simply do not move before getting up. In fact, pretend you are still asleep. Breathe in, through the nose. You can feel the slow intake of air through your nose hairs. Nice…

  • Queue meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 1, 2013 Start with several deep abdominal breaths — in for four, hold for four, out for four — trying not to think of the movie you just saw, the program in your hand, or the line you are in for whatever. This is the movie. You are the star…

  • Guided meditation (for when your child goes off to college)

    Telluride Daily Planet,  Sunday, August 28, 2011 Sit comfortably on planet Earth, which is nestled quietly among the more than 300 billion stars in its galaxy and swathed by an interstellar medium of gas, dust and cosmic rays. Your eyes are closed, palms facing upward. No one is looking at you. No one cares what…

  • Apple a day, metaphors at bay

    Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 My current obsession? I want to be better in bed. Here it is, flu season, and — clearly — I’m just as rotten at being sick as I ever was. My very own custom-made version of the winter crud, which begins — mysteriously enough — with a whistle…

  • Wombos that bite

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 22, 2010 I’ve just encountered the word “hormotional” for the first time and don’t know whether to laugh it off, throw my hands up, or throw the laptop and its Urban Dictionary across the room at the whole English language. Because in addition to loathing “wombos” (word combo = wombination…