Thomas J. Bushlack Blog
Allowing Your Practice to Evolve & Mature
I've been working with Michael longer than any other client. I've had the pleasure of watching him begin and deepen his Centering practice and the integrate it into his career, vocation, marriage, and family. One consistent topic of our coaching sessions is the ebb...
Bringing Gentleness Into Your Practice (And Life)
Hello Everyone, It's good to be back after taking a few months off to recover and rejuvenate! Like many of you, I push myself hard, and I strive for excellence. Of course, we want excellence. But there's a shadow side to this drive. It tends to put the ego in the...
A Non-Dual, Inclusive, Healing Rosary Practice
I have vivid memories - not necessarily fond memories - of kneeling at my bedside with my family reciting a decade of the rosary each night before bed. As my interests in theology became more academic and intellectual in my 20's and 30's I fell away from praying the...
From Trauma to Healing: When My Story Becomes Our Story
Last week I got into my car and started crying for no explainable reason. Feeling like a total failure; a fraud. Like there's something permanently wrong with me. Do you ever feel this way? If you do, I'm sorry. It sucks. But we don't have to hold our suffering...
AmaZen’s “Box of Despair” – How NOT to Integrate Meditation & Wellness
I've spent years helping people and organizations integrate meditation, wellness, and professional development. Every once in a while, someone objects that this cheapens the spiritual depth of these traditions. Or that it's somehow "selling out." But I know that...
What Lies Beyond “Judging Mind”? Wisdom from Jesus, the Buddha, and Patanjali
Yesterday morning I decided to practice yoga in my back yard. I felt my feet connected and rooted deeply to the earth. I felt gravity, sensing the gentle pull of gravity as nature's way of holding me, connecting me to the sufficiency and abundance of nature. I felt...
Meditation, Focus, Desire & Letting Go of Outcomes: Learn from Phil Mickelson
My dad texted me yesterday, all excited because Phil Mickelson, at the age of 50, just became the oldest professional golfer to win a major tournament. And he attributed his success to meditation! “I'm working on it,'' Mickelson said Friday. "I'm making more and...
How to Unlock Your Basic Core of Goodness Without Having to Prove Yourself
The acceptance of our basic core of goodness is a quantum leap on the spiritual journey. - Thomas Keating Your basic core of goodness is the fundamental truth of who you are. It was placed there by God; and there is nothing you can do to get rid of it. No matter...
Are You Feeling “The Holy Longing?”
A few weeks ago I posted about why you should STOP doing guided meditations! It received some impassioned responses, both for and against what I was saying. Let me be clear: I am NOT saying guided meditations are bad. Rather, my goal is to help you go deeper than a...
The Eagle & The Condor: A Prophecy About How to Find Genuine Prosperity
"The prophecy story relates that in the beginning all the earth's people were one, but long ago they divided into two groups and each followed a different path of development. The people of the Eagle were highly scientific and intellectual. The people of the Condor...
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