The Wake Up Call for Lawyers
Mindfulness for the Legal Mind: a 10-minute talk plus 10 minutes of guided meditation. A brief refuge. The musings of a long-time lawyer, law professor, and mindfulness geek on lawyering from a mindful perspective. Tools to cultivate more joy, ease, and wellbeing in this crazy profession. Ideas to become even better at what you do, and save the world. A few minutes of peace every week, which you definitely deserve.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 216
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Don't Fight With Your Practice (aka Making Peace With Your Practice)
There's a way in which we can find ourselves fighting with our own experience: knowing we're frustrated or anxious, yet wanting to feel something different: more calm, safer, and free. When this figh…
Opening (to) the World
In this practice of G.R.O.U.N.D., we've explored G, connecting to the earth and to each other and becoming more grounded in place and in community; and R, resting in the present moment (plus some str…
Resting in the Present Moment
Does it seem like there's still/always so much going on? It does to me. What if we could rest in the middle of it all? What if we had a "practice" of resting, throughout the day, and we still got eve…
Finding Common G.R.O.U.N.D.
Another big week and this time some good news, with the Chauvin verdict and the Minnesota Attorney General's powerful speech. Keith Ellison invited us to create transformation in the law: "empathetic…
G.R.O.U.N.D. in the Here & Now
Last week we looked at a classic portable mindfulness practice, S.T.O.P. This week, let's take it back to the cushion.
With so much happening, plus life beginning to open up, things can feel confusing…
Equanimity as Things Unfold
By the time of this Wake Up Call, we'd all be so careful for so long. It had been exhausting but also, safe. The question was, how were people feeling about venturing out? Some days I had the balance…
Equanimity at the End, My Mother's Last Teaching
The intention was to start unpacking equanimity slowly, from the beginning, starting with today's Wake Up Call. However, that's not what happened. Instead, events overtook me and I ended up writing a…
Equanimity in the Time of COVID
Today's Wake Up Call fell on the official one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The questions that were alive were, what can we do to mark this incredibly sad moment? And how ca…
Forgiveness that Can Lead to Liberation
What would it be like to be happy for the difficult people in our lives? It's almost too strange to contemplate. Yet if we do contemplate it, and practice it, not only does it liberate us from feelin…
Wishing Our Enemies Well
The law (and the world) divides us: good & bad, our side & theirs, friends & enemies. Hopefully it's not difficult to be happy for our friends, and to wish them well. But, what about the other side, …
Letting Joy Win
This Wake Up Call is about comparing mind. Comparing gets in the way of joy. Yet comparing is ubiquitous in the law. Plus it's one or the other - we can be joyful or we can cultivate (or default to) …
Taking Joy in Someone Else's Success
In this episode of the Wake Up Call, let's look at how to be happy when the other side wins, and other interesting conundrums. Happy listening.
The Joy of Letting Someone Else Lead
We're exploring joy. Sure, we have mountains of work to do, in our practices and also in the country and world. And, we're legal professionals - we're trained to be leaders, expected to lead. Yet, su…
Unity
Our new President, Joe Biden, called for unity in his inaugural address. How can we understand unity from a mindfulness perspective? This Wake Up Call explores that. Happy listening.
What Do Wisdom and Compassion Look Like Right Now?
Mindfulness is many things but it's definitely not about hiding out. One thing mindfulness can help us to do is to cultivate greater wisdom and compassion - fierce compassion. This Wake Up Call explo…
Why Practice Mindfulness?
This opening Wake Up Call of 2021 was recorded live on January 7th, 2021, the day after the insurrection at the Capital. It seemed like a good day to ask, why practice mindfulness, when the world is …