♠ This Swedish practice will start your morning on the right note. It’s 5 a.m.—far earlier than I usually wake—but the birds are at it again. It is impossible to sleep. I hear a chorus of voices singing me awake. So, it’s time to gökotta―rise early to appreciate...
Read More↓ Mudita is a sympathetic joy for joy: spontaneously and sincerely feeling happy for another’s good fortune. With impressive honesty, author Aja Frost publicly posted this “unflattering truth” about herself: “When people tell me their good news or great fortune, I’m happy for them—on the surface. Internally, I’m...
Read MoreIn order to claim your own story, you must understand where your current story came from. As a woman, if you ever find yourself staying silent to keep from ruffling other people’s feathers or swallowing your truth because you don’t want to risk confrontation, you may...
Read MoreWhat self-care means is unique to each of us. Ask yourself these questions to go beyond the basic routine and create a transcendent self-care habit. We tend to have a narrow definition of self-care. We think self-care means engaging in healthy habits: getting enough sleep, eating...
Read More“Self-compassion takes strength, courage, and faith. Trust the process, and allow yourself to slowly let in more self-compassion, more kindness, a few degrees at a time.” ↓ The research is clear: self-compassion is a much more effective and healthy approach than shame or self-esteem. People with greater...
Read More↓ We can’t second-guess every choice we make. So how do we know what it means for something to feel right? ↓ One of the questions that have come up for me often in my life is what it means to trust myself. How do I know that the...
Read More↓ Have a holiday hangover? Try these yoga poses to help detox and rebalance your body. The New Year is a popular time to think about detox—to cleanse all that holiday indulgence and start the new calendar year out fresh. The big secret about detoxification, though, is...
Read MoreBoosting your emotional wellbeing doesn’t always have to feature grand gestures and sweeping changes. Here are nine small adjustments you can make in your day-to-day life. A great way to welcome the New Year is to focus on your emotional wellbeing. After all, your emotional wellness...
Read More↓ Every year, we make resolutions. Every year, it seems, we fall short. That's perfectly fine. Falling short is almost inevitable. What matters is what happens next. ♠ Resolution Failure? ♠ Q. Every year in late December I think about changes I want to make in my life. Like lots...
Read More♠ Prepare for success by turning your refrigerator into a lean, mean, clean machine. If you’ve ever seen the 1984 film “Ghostbusters” movie, you’ll remember the scene where Sigourney Weaver’s character hears growling coming from her refrigerator. She opens it to discover a supernatural scene inside, complete...
Read More“The good news is that the present is right here, right now. ...
Read More↓ Learn how to vanquish anxiety and actually enjoy the holidays with these tips. It starts slow, at first, almost unnoticeable until—like a small wave that builds rapidly in speed and intensity—it knocks you over. That seemingly innocuous experience that catches you off-guard, leaving you in a...
Read More↓ Learn how to vanquish anxiety and actually enjoy the holidays with these tips. It starts slow, at first, almost unnoticeable until—like a small wave that builds rapidly in speed and intensity—it knocks you over. That seemingly innocuous experience that catches you off-guard, leaving you in a...
Read More♥ Harvesting this powerful herb in the fall can help you extend your summertime garden’s vitality well into the winter months. In the past five or six years, gardening has become one of my most treasured hobbies, an escape from the stressful hustle-and-bustle of city living. Not...
Read More↓ Our senses offer a direct route to tapping our creative well. If you find yourself caught in a fruitless spiral, disconnected from your creativity, look to your senses, and explore that world with this wisdom from Be, Awake, Create: While perceptions are limitless, the capabilities of our sense...
Read MoreWe in the modern West assume that the normal mind is a healthy one. But a "healthy mind" is still subject to many types of distress, including depression, anxiety, frustration, restlessness, boredom, and resentment. Only when such imbalances are excessive are we advised to seek...
Read MoreTwo ways to access calm strength within ourselves. Recently, on a very good day, I was talking to a friend about the experience of feeling fantastically alive and also having a deep sense of calm. My well of patience felt bottomless and I was able to...
Read MoreOur senses offer an immediate doorway to the present moment, and there are potent added benefits to these three sensory experiences. Try one the next time your stress and anxiety meter spikes. Smell Bergamot is a sweet and spicy scent, sourced from the peel of a citrus fruit known...
Read More(Plus 2 Ways to Get More ZZZs) If you are struggling to get a good night’s rest, you may want to address these common sleep disruptors. I used to be really good at sleeping. I would crash out as soon as my head hit the pillow and...
Read MorePhilosophy isn't just for professors. Embracing a philosophical attitude can make you healthier, happier, and (of course) wiser. List the top three things you’re interested in—that’s a request I made of 14 different people. Their responses included world travel, family, health, nature photography, playing guitar, and...
Read MoreSky Nelson-Isaacs sees flow and synchronicity as “mutually dependent. In short, when we align with circumstance, circumstance aligns with us.” He describes a set of steps he calls the LORRAX process as a way to cultivate flow in our lives. In the course of a day,...
Read MoreHere are some morning affirmations to start the day off with clarity, purpose, and joy. “Each morning we are born again. Do today what matters most,” writes Jack Kornfield, in The Buddha’s Little Instruction Book. We get a remarkable gift each day: A fresh start. That chance to...
Read MoreThree Ways Parents Can Ease Into Summer by Sherianna Boyle – May 27, 2019 Summer fun brings summer stress for parents. Here are three tips for keeping your inner cool in the heat. You made it. Another year has ended, school is out, and now it is time to shift gears...
Read MoreSponsored Content from Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas How many facets of yoga do you know? How many do you practice? At the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas, a destination for yogis from around the world, yoga is based on five points that are practiced regularly in...
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...
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