by Amanda Metta | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
When I was seven, I sat in a ocean pool. It was a normal summer day and we spent the morning on the beach. For some reason I found myself resting so comfortably that I didn’t move for a while. I noticed all the little fish coming to swim around me, as if I was a...
by Amanda Metta | Jun 18, 2017 | Blog
The Buddha says that it is our attachment that is the cause of all suffering. Life is full of attachment. In the most severe form we think of addiction. Drugs, alcohol, sex and gambling are all addictions society has labeled as pretty serious and dysfunctional. Yet,...
by Amanda Metta | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog, Healing
Have you ever paid a lot of money to get a reading, healing or therapy session? Afterwards you felt great for an hour or so, the interaction was quite pleasurable, yet you didn’t feel like you gained a whole lot. In fact you more got the sense that you...
by Amanda Metta | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog
I just want to be free! I just want to have my own life experience! I just want to be who I am! Sounds familiar? I have been playing those tapes in my head over and over again, yet, after years of repeating it to myself, I still find myself feeling restricted to just...
by Amanda Metta | Jun 3, 2017 | Blog, Healing, Meditation
I often hear people refer to a chosen activity as meditation. “Dancing meditation,” “walking meditation,” “playing-with-the-children meditation,” kayaking meditation,” ad so on. I agree with the idea that something can absorb...
by Amanda Metta | Jun 2, 2017 | Blog
Overwhelm. We all experience feeling overwhelmed at some stage or another. The reason this feeling arises in the first place, is most likely, from the desire to accomplish, to produce, or to deliver. When demands have been put on us, either by our own minds, or those...
