Out of the Cave
When you're in a funk you can't get out of, or flattened by overwhelm, you don't need to fix everything — you need one tiny step, and then another. This walk is what I learned in my own long years in that place: Speak, Willingness, Move, the paths of Tiger and Snow Lion, and gentleness on the days when everything is a slog. Begin here, wherever you are.
When You’re In A Funk And Can’t Get Out: Three Keys to Exiting Funk
Move — I said we have to, with all the gentleness in the world. Here's exactly how, from the bottom of the cave: find a drop of willingness, summon your Tiger, and let Tiger move your feet.
When You're Overwhelmed - Part 1: Walking The Path of Tiger
Touch down into the power and resilience flowing through you, however faint it feels today. This practice has carried me through so many difficult times — let it carry you one step.
Tiger: Energy of Contentedness
Want to know how far one paw at a time can carry you? From one corner of a sofa, unable to reach my own kitchen, to loping down a forest trail grinning — this is Tiger proven under the heaviest weight I've known.
Walking with Tiger: Finding Freedom on the Other Side of Agoraphobia, Panic and Isolation
Once Tiger has you on your feet, something new becomes possible. Let's bring the joy back — through a discipline you invite in, like sun and rain, not one you're whipped by.
When You're Overwhelmed - Part 2: Dancing the Path of Snow Lion
Sequential and simultaneous: Tiger first, and Tiger all the way through, with Snow Lion dancing on that ground. Now practice them together — one paw in front of the next, discipline invited in — and let them lead you toward clarity and joy.
And on the days when everything weighs ten times what it should? Don't call them failures. They're the best free resistance training there is — let's go to the gym.
Sloggy Days: What To Do When You Don't Want To Do Anything
Sometimes it isn't a slog — the body itself breaks down and every plan is gone. Even then there's a choice: to turn toward the rising sun. Come and see how making a bed can become an act of upliftedness.
When life breaks down: Be Uplifted in the Cradle of Loving Kindness
And cradle yourself in loving-kindness. When you're exhausted, in pain or overstimulated, stop pushing more in. Come rest in the natural breath of life — the deep rest that genuinely recharges.
Rest. Recharge.