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Practicing Mindfulness and Kindness
Living amid the busyness of our high-tech and low-touch society takes us away from fully experiencing our day-to-day lives. We often live on autopilot, doing without experiencing. We can be quick to...
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Do Something Different: How to Break Habits and Routines
Do you have a favourite coffee mug and get a bit miffed if a guest inadvertently uses it? Do you have 'your' side of the bed? We all have an affinity with repetition and habit, often when there's no...
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Listening Is Active, Not Passive
Elliott Jaffa, Ed.D., a behavioral psychologist who conducts "active listening" seminars for businesses and other groups, says, "In reality, very few people really know how to listen. There's more to...
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Slowing Down In Order To Get There Sooner!
In my piano service business, I worked many seven-day weeks, and some fourteen- to sixteen-hour days. Once, when I had a particularly long day ahead of me, I decided I would put all my effort into...
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Beyond Food Addictions & Bingeing: MB-EAT
People whose “drug of choice” is food have a tendency to cope with stress by over-eating, often bingeing on foods. Unlike drugs or alcohol, it isn’t possible to steer clear of temptation — we all need...
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Calming the Body, Mind, and Spirit using Mindful Exhalations
Breathing is the bridge between our external and internal environments. The exhalation is linked to relaxation and the sense of well-being. It’s understood in expressions such as, “breathing a sigh of...
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Five Tips for Maintaining Mindfulness of Life
A good way of integrating mindfulness into daily life is to practice while engaging in activities you might usually plow through on auto-pilot. You might find that paying attention to these everyday...
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Driving and Kissing: Being Where Your Heart Is
I saw a romantic greeting card which showed a couple kissing in the front seat of a car. The message said, "If you can kiss while driving safely, you are not giving the kiss the attention it...
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Going From Ignorance to Wisdom Through Mindfulness
The practice of mindfulness entails a careful examination and surgical dissection of what is being presented by reality from what is being projected by us. When we are simply imagining something and...
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Discovering What Works for You (and what doesn't)
Taking time for your personal development isn't indulgent, selfish, or self-serving. Rather, it is necessary and vital to be good to yourself, if you wish to do good for others. What happens when you...
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What Choice Will You Make?: The Process of Unlearning & Relearning
Unlearning habits and establishing new ones is no more difficult than learning them in the first place. Here are some guidelines for freeing yourself from the automatic nature of your old-perception...
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Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans
Many of us would like to have a peaceful ride, enjoy the present moment, yet we can’t help but make future plans so we feel secure, or we spend time digging on past hurts. But... the true experience...
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Creating a Place of Solitude & Refuge In Your Home
Any place we live must accommodate a number of activities: socializing, sleeping, cooking, eating, bathing, relaxing. But what about quiet alone-time? Renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell insisted we...
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What's Real? Why Your Past or Future Need Not Impact Your Peace
Your stories about your past, your current circumstances and future only exist in your mind, not in reality. And once you fully get this, you can more confidently release your grasp on the need to...
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Embrace the Astounding Strength of Kindness
The impact we can have on the world we share, if we choose to be kind in every circumstance or even in an occasional situation, simply can’t be overestimated. The shift in how life would feel to...
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Opening Up to a Sense of Connection and Love using Sacred Attention
Attention, as with awareness, can be understood as a relationship. It is the relationship between the one who is aware, or the "awarer" (whom we know as "me" or "I"), and the object of awareness. When...
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You Don't Have to Find Your Path, You're Already On It
You stumble along thinking you don't know the way, and then one day you realize you're in the middle of it. I'd always thought that a path was a means to an end. A course of study, a tour of duty. The...
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After Age 25, We’re More Forgetful When Distracted
Older people are nearly twice as likely as young adults to have their memory impaired by distractions such as irrelevant speech or written words.
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Receptivity and Honoring the Feminine: The Power of Stillness
Most of us have heard about male and female energy, and how we all have a bit of both within us. In truth, these energies are one, inseparable and incapable of existence as singular entities....
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Mindfulness: How To Be In The Moment Right Here, Right Now
Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. This quote by Leo Tolstoy in What Men Live By and Other...
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What I Learned About Living From Dying of Cancer
Many more patients are now living for years with the diagnosis of terminal illness. The author describes her journey to what she calls "livingly dying" - facing her death by living in the moment with...
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The Brains Of People With PTSD Are Changed With Mindfulness Training
The brain findings suggest that mindfulness training may have helped the veterans develop more capacity to shift their attention and get themselves out of being 'stuck' in painful cycles of thoughts,
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How Mindfulness Can Help The Shift Towards A More Sustainable Society
We know that mindfulness can transform the life of an individual. But did you know it could also change the world? We need to develop new social practices and encourage a broader cultural shift towards...
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Just What Is Mindfulness?
You’ve probably heard of mindfulness. These days, it’s everywhere, like many ideas and practices drawn from Buddhist texts that have become part of mainstream Western culture.
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How Mindfulness Apps With Acceptance Training Can Reduce Stress
Mindfulness meditation apps can reduce the body’s response to biological stress, new research suggests.
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Do Attention And Distraction Refer To The Same Behavior?
A constant complaint in our unpredictable world is that we live in an age of distraction. I am quick to label students who stare at their phones in my class distracted...
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In Praise Of Doing Nothing
In the 1950s, scholars worried that, thanks to technological innovations, Americans wouldn’t know what to do with all of their leisure time. However, modern life seems to encourage acceleration for the...
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How To Manage Exam Stress
A little stress around exam time can be a good thing, as it motivates you to put in the work. But sometimes stress levels can get out of hand, particularly at the end of an academic year.
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How To Survive Your Annoying Relatives This Holiday Season
Social allergies are a lot like seasonal allergies. They’re annoying, exhausting and hard to avoid. They’re also especially common around the holidays. That’s because the holidays put you at a high...
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Why Attention Is Not A Resource But A Way Of Being Alive To The World
‘We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.’ Those were the words of the American biologist E O Wilson at the turn of the century.
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