Enlightened Living

Mindfulness practice in everyday life.

The Butterfly, the Cocoon and the Seed of Transformation

We live in perilous times. Things that we have taken for granted and may have once regarded as constants in our lives have become uncertain, feeding, in turn, the frenzy of our own personal sense of uncertainty. This is nothing new, but recent events in the economy, the world at large and, for some of us, within our own personal realm of experience, have drawn into stark relief that which is the only constant - nothing is permanent, and everything must change. Our abject denial of this single truth has, in many ways, caused us to become victims of our own device. The Dharma Journal is a three month long project intended to bring into perspective the experience of what may be our current personal challenges, as well as to address that experience in a fashion intended to promote both a personal, and a planetary, evolution.

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Michael J. Formica, M.S., M.A., Ed.M., is a psychotherapist, teacher and writer. He is an Initiate in the Shankya Yoga lineage of H.H. Sri Swami Rama and the Himalayan Masters.

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