Do you suffer from anxiety or stress? One of the most popular forms of treatment for stress is called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or MBSR. Developed by meditation expert Jon Kabat-Zinn over the course of 35 years at the UMass Medical Center, MBSR has an extensive body of scientific research to document and demonstrate it’s effectiveness. What […]
7 Ways Mindfulness Improves Your Performance At Work
Can mindfulness improve your performance at work? Many businesses are embracing mindfulness and meditation training to help their employees. But what’s the actual benefit of mindfulness at work? And can it really help you? Work is an area where many of us experience our greatest sense of personal development. We’re rewarded when we perform well […]
5 Steps To Mindfully Embrace Criticism At Work & At Home
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~Winston Churchill Criticism. Yuck! I don’t know many people who enjoy or embrace it. Do you like criticism? I sure don’t. It’s always a bitter pill […]
4 Mindfulness Tips To Reclaim Your Center & Ground Your Being
“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Do you have days when you feel a little out of control? Maybe even a little crazy? I sure do. Sometimes events spiral out of my control (surprise surprise!), my emotional center veers off balance, […]
How To Build Your Mindful Presence (And Your Grey Matter Too!)
What is presence exactly? And how does it relate to mindfulness and living in the present moment? Recently I had an extraordinary experience. It happened while I was walking down the street in my neighborhood. And it got me thinking about mindful presence and how we each experience our world. But before we go any further, […]
Pay Attention. What Are You Putting In Your Head?
Do you take good care of your mind? Are you nourishing your awareness? And how, exactly, do you do that anyways? We all know that there are huge industries devoted to taking care of your physical fitness, your diet, and your appearance. And those things are important and have a big effect on your quality […]
