Creating a New Habit? How Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Baby Steps Make Change Possible
To reap the benefits of a habit, you must practice! Most of us have good intentions: meditate daily, eat mindfully, take daily walks, eat healthy meals. So why is it so hard to form a new habit and what’s the best way to do it? HOMEOSTASIS and NEUROPLASTICITY...
Four Things Mindful People Do Differently
Research continues to support the many health and quality of life benefits of mindfulness practice: stress reduction, greater physical well-being, and a happier, more stable mental state. Did you know that if you practice mindfulness, you are more likely to be...
Too Much Cortisol? The Scary Stress Hormone and How to Decrease it
If you’ve ever had a panic attack, or remember a close call when driving on a busy highway, then you’re familiar with the effects of the stress hormone cortisol flooding the body. It’s a horrible feeling! But cortisol isn’t concerned with how you feel. It’s concerned...
Mindfulness On The Go: Apps and Audio to Facilitate Your Meditation Practice
The technological age is amazing! From apps to podcasts to audio books and videos, everything we need or want to learn is just a Google or YouTube search away. We also have remotes for just about everything to up our convenience factor. With mindfulness having been...
On the Job Mindfulness
For most of us, working is an unavoidable fact of life, and with jobs comes stress. Even if we're self-employed or have a flexible schedule, stress is an inevitable part of our workday. Most of us spend most of our time at work. So, how can we work with our stress?...
Mindful Eating: Try These “Micro Practices” for Boosting Appetite Awareness
The ability to control impulsive eating during stressful times is a challenge. We all experience typical garden-variety upheaval from time to time. While intellectually we know this is temporary. Life will soon become predictable and comfortable again. But in the...
Taking Mindfulness in Stride
Looking for a way to quiet your mind that doesn’t involve sitting still and following your breath? Walking meditation may be for you. It is just as beneficial as sitting meditation, with some differences. Obviously you’re walking instead of sitting, but the focus of...
The Kind Mind: Mindfulness Nourishes Self-Kindness
The best advice I received when learning to meditate was “Be kind to yourself.” This was challenging, since my mind drifted (a thousand times!) during meditation practice. How could I be kind to this frustrating, unruly, disobedient mind? Through mindfulness practice...
Rewire Your Mind and Heart for Love: Mindfulness Brings Intimacy to Life
By now you’ve probably heard that mindfulness is good for you. A regular practice in moment-to-moment awareness can make us happier, healthier, and kinder. Recent studies linking mindfulness and women’s sexual response are garnering a lot of attention. (More on this...
Key Components of Your Best Life
During my graduate studies in Transpersonal Psychology I became intrigued with the idea of human connection and mindfulness as catalysts for healing and transformation. Something about today’s world of divisiveness and separation seemed fundamentally inconsistent with...
Mindful Communication – A Key to Better Relationships
One of the significant characteristics of mindfulness training is that once you begin to feel confident in your practice, and start to notice the benefits of mindfulness in your daily life, you begin to see relationships evolve and change. Mindfulness “ripples out”...
Mindfulness Training & Therapeutic Yoga: Optimal Treatments for Insomnia
I remember when chronic pain and obsessive worry kept me awake night after night. Typically, around 2 am, my mind was scanning the horizon like a lighthouse, searching for something to worry about. When it locked on it wouldn’t let go, mentally approaching the...
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