May | 2018 | Geneen Roth

Published May 28, 2018

We held our spring retreat last week. …

There is nothing better than being in a room with you all, face-to-face, and watching the changes that happen. Miraculous. Magical.

As always, we began our day with morning Eating Meditations. Here is a little piece of a morning around the plate...

Just notice what's on your plate when you sit down to eat: This is all about your mind, and not really about food. Food is the way you express and project; everything you feel and believe comes out in food. That’s what we’re looking at now. We’re looking at what you believe, we’re looking at how you feel. So, do you want to feel well? Is part of your goal in eating this to feel great afterwards, or is part of it to just stop what’s happening inside? Is part of it to taste everything because you’re all about the pleasure? There is no right or wrong. I’m just asking you to really ask yourself, what happens when you choose food? Is it about the food or is it about, ugh, I finally can get enough of something I might now really want, and it really doesn’t look that good, but there’s so much else that I can’t get enough of, I’m gonna take what I can get enough of now. And no one is going to stop me, no one.

So, notice: that’s you! You know, I could say that’s you on steroids, but it’s not, it’s you regularly. Your mind as it manifests in everything you do. And what you can do is look at it and question it and be free of the suffering of it.

Published May 9, 2018

I’ve been reminded recently …

of what someone once told me. I wish I could remember who it was, but anyway, what she said was: Everything counts.

So often in my life, I’ve thought: “Well, just this once, I’ll do it. And it won’t matter because I’ll do it another way later or tomorrow or next week." So often, I’ve chosen to make one small thing not count, and yet, one by one, small decisions add up and create a particular outcome. And not only one outcome, but a habitual way of doing and acting. I love this quote from Ernest Dimnet: "The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

Yep. That makes sense. Turn it around and another way of saying it is that what I do today, how I talk to Matt, the plumber on the phone after I realize the Insinkerator is broken, matters. The everyday words, actions matter. Not because someone up there is keeping score but because they add up to a flow, a habit, a way of looking and being in the world that then affects every moment, every breath.

We held our spring retreat last week. …

I’ve been reminded recently …

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