Meditation is a vital tool in your Jedi toolkit, but it’s so easy to ignore. There are so many demands on your time, convenient and inconvenient distractions and tasks to pay attention to, and a million reasons why you don’t really have to do it right now, right? As California…
One method of meditation that I find exceedingly difficult is visualization meditation, but I learned a very basic one in my Tai Chi class that really helps me called Triangle Breathing. Picture a pyramid shaped triangle in your mind’s eye. Now picture a small light (almost like a welding arc)…
I’ve been thinking about my Path with greater intensity lately. To give you some context, I recently took some time off to deal with some heavy personal issues. I’ve had a past with alcohol, and after starting down the Jedi path and almost five months completely sober, it recently came…
In the California Jedi Knighting Standards, the core knowledge is broken down into the five areas of wellness, originally taken from The Jedi Circle. These are Physical Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Social Wellness, and Spiritual Wellness. Although community is always an advantage, four of the five areas of wellness…
The California Jedi Gathering begins tomorrow, with twelve Jedi (and Jedi friends) trekking into the Mountains for a weekend of fellowship and training. The Maryland Gathering begins the week after. For these Jedi, their coming weekends will be spent with friends who understand and support their path, and we will…
Originally published at JediLiving. There is a difference between handling things and and dealing with things. This is one of the biggest traps for most people, including Jedi. Life can get busy. It can come at us quick. And we can feel we are doing a great job of dealing…
