December, 2024 - Bill Light Performance Coaching

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An Introduction to Breath-Based Meditation Practice

29 Dec 2024

Breath-based meditation is foundational in many meditation systems including ones from Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, Sikhism, and various yogic schools. The reason the breath makes such a good meditation object is that it’s ever-present, immediate, vital, and links the unconscious and conscious mind. In other words, you can breathe automatically without even thinking about it; and yet, you can also consciously control your breath whenever you choose to. Breath-based meditation is also handy because you can perform it in different…

The Three Mindfulness Adjustments

22 Dec 2024

As a practitioner of mindfulness meditation for 46 years, and a teacher of it for 25, I’ve followed the rise of the mindfulness movement over past two decades with mixed feelings. On the one hand, it’s been refreshing to see something I so value getting some airtime. On the other hand, its popularization, a.k.a. McMindfulness, has trivialized the practice beyond recognition, depicting it as a faddish skill you can pick up over a weekend. Mindfulness isn’t a new way to…

The Rise and Fall of Bottled Water Quality

19 Dec 2024

Though drinking bottled water may once have been favorable to your health and wellness, those days are long gone. Not long ago, say 50 to 100 years past, bottled spring water was actually drawn from natural springs. It was bottled at the source in glass bottles and delivered to customers, first in horse-drawn wagons and, later, in motorized trucks. This spring water was naturally pure and pristine, as it had surfaced from underground through many layers of clay and sediment,…