What Can You Learn by Meditating with Pain? (Essay)

What Can You Learn by Meditating with Pain? (Essay)

Meditating when you’re having physical, mental, or emotional pain is an opportunity for discovery. I’m in my backyard meditating on a gorgeous, early autumn morning in New Orleans. Green and lush but not too hot or humid. The heat of the bayou in the summer has cooled...
Live inside every moment as if it’s your last.

Live inside every moment as if it’s your last.

What’s the best advice a therapist ever gave me? “Gentry,” he said, “Sometimes, you just gotta say ‘Fuck it’.” That might not be what living in the moment means to you. Maybe it’s some other concept or maybe it’s...