The Daily Shine
Today, we practice self-directed breathwork to help check in with how we feel and care for ourselves.
CLEAR ALL
Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
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The Latinx community is just as vulnerable to mental illness as the general population, but faces disparities in treatment.
Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.
“When I started my undergraduate degree in psychology, my grandmother said she was afraid I would become pagal (“crazy”) because of it.
I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.
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It’s far from news that there is a lack of space and resources allocated for Black women to heal.
So many of the little rituals I have each day—like my makeup or skincare routine—do help soothe and/or rejuvenate me. For me, any type of solo practiced routine is good. But I’ve learned that self-care does not, and cannot, sustain me. And I believe that this may be the case for many of you.
Once you begin meditating daily, life as you knew it will begin to take on some interesting twists and turns.
Much of the Western world was completely unaware of the profound impact of the breath on the body and mind until the 1970's.
A senior Buddhist teacher offers fundamental body-based meditation practices that prove enlightenment is as close to you as your own body.