Grind Well

You wouldn’t get that sense looking at this blog, but my practice has been really solid for the past month or so. I’ve e... Read more

It’s time to get real. I’m wasting too much time every day on pointless stuff online, and I’m not even enjoying it. This... Read more

Practically all my meditation training has been in disciplines of opening the attention to admit all available phenomena... Read more

Sometimes my desire to meditate is about achieving something. Sometimes I desire a peaceful mental state I know is tempo... Read more

I’ve decided to open up the structure of Grind Well a little bit, to make it possible to post more often without always ... Read more

It’s been six and a half weeks since my daughter was born. This morning, for the first time, I managed to wake myself at... Read more

The practice really does work one breath at a time. This is something I doubted before having a baby and getting my medi... Read more

I’m rocking in a rocking chair facing the window. The sun is streaming in. My wife is propped up on the couch with her l... Read more

It’s time to put Grind Well on pause again for the moment, and it’s for the best possible reason. My wife and I are expe... Read more

Sometimes “mindfulness” and “productivity” seem like twin memes. The best illustration of this is that it’s equally natu... Read more