Learning to befriend all moments places us firmly in the life we are living, rather than the ideal life we are prone to imagine or strive towards. There are several attitudes of mind that are pivotal to the transformation and liberation of the mind: befriending, compassion,...
Read MoreThis week we present good reasons to stock up on avocadoes, an intriguing link between depression and constipation, and people wigging out while meditating. Intrigued? Read to learn more. The Moody Gut: Constipation and Depression I’ve heard of moody cats and moody teens, but “moody gut” was...
Read MoreStruggle to stay focused when you meditate? Learning to listen like a musician can deepen both your meditation practice and your mindfulness. Musically minded people are naturally deep listeners. The variety of nuances and qualities that they can discern within a few bars of music is absolutely...
Read MoreThis simple yet effective form of deep breathing defuses the stress feedback loop and teaches your brain and body to relax. Taking a deep breath or two to relax in and of itself isn’t new. Many people take a few deep breaths when they’ve feeling overcome...
Read MoreWhen we deny what's difficult by putting our heads in the sand, we create more suffering. Here's a 10-minute meditation to reverse the tendency to start digging. Can you feel the heat? ↓ Life feels a little more intense these days: at home, work, out in the world....
Read MoreInformal mindfulness practices for those of us who don’t have five minutes to contemplate a raisin. ↓ I can still remember the raisin from that first mindfulness class I took in a family friend’s basement office, almost twenty years ago. I myself was only 20 years old...
Read MoreSusan Kaiser-Greenland guides us through one of the oldest meditation practices called "Sit and Know You're Sitting. ♠ One of the oldest meditation practices is also one of the simplest: Sit, and know you’re sitting. Let’s give it a try: 1. Get comfortable, with your back straight. Close your...
Read MoreOn autopilot, we might not notice all the stress we carry around — Explore this brief mindfulness practice to unwind your body and mind. ↓ By Elisha Goldstein | August 14, 2018 ◊ ◊ In order to deeply relax and be present in life, it’s important to understand how we hold our...
Read MoreThis 5-minute mindfulness practice cultivates gratitude for life's small delights as you move through the senses. ↓ By Elaine Smookler | August 6, 2018 Waking up this morning, I glanced at my cell phone and noticed the weather app ominously predicting many days of snow and icy temperatures ahead....
Read More↓ When we practice investigating judgments and diffusing them we can learn to choose how we look at things and react to them. Of all the wondrous array of thoughts that are possible, negative judgments about ourselves and others are one of the mind’s compulsive obsessions. It’s...
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