Mindful Biology 

seeds contemplative practice with life science

for soulful harvests:

Note: in coming months I plan to explain each of these "harvests". As essays are completed, the list below will transition to links.

coming home to life:

• deepening mindfulness of the body & its biology

• improving mind-body & interpersonal connections

• embracing our bodies & our species

• befriending mortality

• exploring the shape & roots of inward aliveness

• surfing bodily energies

• relaxing into the stuff of Life

living spirituality:

• noticing sacredness in moment-by-moment living

• cultivating faith in Life

• honoring Life's mystery

• celebrating the biosphere

• opening to awe, love & wholeness

• centering in spacious knowing, embodied compassion & earthly being

• nurturing personal relationships with Life

• blessing the source of Life

growing integrity:

• using the ways of nature to restore balance

• flowing into somatic stillness & out of cognitive stress

• empowering bodily wisdom

• knowing civilization as part of the biosphere, not its master

• recognizing illness & encouraging healing on all scales

• making peace with sexuality

• clarifying moral choices, guided by Life

• growing & aging in joy, service & equanimity

transcending self:

• dissolving duality with neural & ecological facts

• knowing ego as tool, not identity

• recognizing the repeating, fractal, karmic themes of Life

• connecting with Life's web & Earth's depths

• empathizing with consciousness in other Life forms

• awakening pure aliveness

• abiding in emptiness, the silent matrix of Life