Mindful Explorer Gifts

"You have got to want to change."

We process all information through our senses...

"Some days I feel fine. Other days I feel dandy. I never feel fine and dandy."

"All this meditation has really got me thinking."

Crazy Straw. Crazy Straw after therapy

"Sorry, but, as you can see, I finally found the answer to the true meaning of life."

"You know what your problem is? You think too much."

Shh I'm meditating....

"Yes, sir, Dave. Out here, under the big sky, I always get back in touch with who I am."

"And I feel guilty I don't have more guilt feelings."

"Because I'm happy, I feel alienated."

"I feel people mock me behind my back."

"Forgetting passwords doesn't make you a bad person, Arnold."

"Do I dare get up?"

'I want you to put me in touch with reality, but be ready to break the connection fast.'

'You have the right to an attorney, a therapist, an anger management counselor, a support group...'

'There but for the grace of God go I!'

There are days, hours, ........ split seconds, when the world itself wobbles.

'Don't ask me about my childhood.'

'You call that anxiety?'

"Maybe it was really about the journey this whole time."

Psychiatry. Your disorientation is number 2248 in my psychiatry manual. You mean my daze is numbered?

Just think of meditation as "mental floss."

Been there. Done that. (Man stands between two doors.)

"Human parfait Gossip Podcasts To-do lists Emails needing reply Doom scrolling residue The conversation you should stop putting off Vacation plans Fear of wrong choices Strange, unexplained pain Nostalgia/longing Memento mori"

"I know it's not as exciting as bungee jumping, but this might be the time to take up meditating as a past-time."

"Put that stupid phone away and look at the beautiful colors!"

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

The Map of the human brain

'...when did you first get these feelings of wanting to be a psychiatrist?'

Sigmund Freud.

Unguided imagery

"Nature speaks to me of God’s presence, yet God is a total stranger to the restless world of men." "Why the #!@* is there no signal?!"

"You left your demons here last week."