What Is a Silent Retreat

Posted by Dennis Mnuskin in wellness 5 years, 4 months ago

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Recently I attended a silent retreat near Jefferson, Maine. As I came back, I’ve had a few conversations with friends, family and colleagues about my experience. That prompted me to write a reflections post on that experience. However, because I...

Reflections on my Second Silent Retreat

Posted by Dennis Mnuskin in the path, wellness 5 years, 5 months ago

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Few weeks ago, I attended a 5-day silent retreat organized by the Dharmata Foundation. Since coming back, I’ve done some thinking about how it went and what I experienced, and a number of people have asked me what it was like. As this story was...

On Health and Wellness

Posted by Dennis Mnuskin in the path, wellness 5 years, 6 months ago

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Being Healthy -- It is something many of us would say we want. Who would ever say I don’t want to be healthy? Then again, for a good chunk of my life I personally never considered what does “being healthy” actually means to me. Nor have I...

Introducing a Toolbox

Posted by Dennis Mnuskin in toolbox 5 years, 7 months ago

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It’s been a little while since I’ve added more content here. After the last post, I had back-to-back business travel followed by a 2-week vacation to the UK. Coming back to normal flow after being outside of The Box of Daily Experience(*) for...

Discovering Balance and Focus Through Being Bored

Posted by Dennis Mnuskin in the path 5 years, 9 months ago

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This is a sequel to the post, where I talked about several life-planning professionals who forced me to ponder the question, “what’s your plan?” The scope of what they were referring to was the entirety of my remaining lifetime: the goals, the...