A Single Act Of Kindness…
Free Will and Mindfulness
I recently came across an article in Discover Magazine that caught my interest. You can find it here. The article describes a successful treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that has, at its very core, an emphasis on teaching mindfulness skills to its participants. Those mindfulness skills are leveraged to change the way these people think, adjusting [...]
New Year’s Practice – Do Not Open Until Next Year
Ah, the new year. It's a time for reflection, celebration, and redirection. With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it can be easy to miss the opportunity to slow down and reflect on all that has happened over this past year and how those experiences have led up to where you are today. [...]
What Is Mindfulness?
Note: This is the first post in my 3-part "Introduction to Mindfulness" series. These days, much of our stress has to do with our thoughts about situations. Ideally, when we are faced with a problem, we will do all we can in the moment to solve it and let it go. What happens more often, though, is [...]
Making Mindfulness Work For You
When I was on retreat with the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, I heard him describe the mind like a garden - it has limited space for things to grow. As such, you need to be careful what sprouts you nurture. Otherwise you could end up with a garden full of weeds, and not enough [...]
Practice makes Progress
I'm not saying that it is a cure-all, but mindfulness seems to help a lot of people with a lot of different things. Journals in every discipline lately are printing articles about how mindfulness could be a really promising addition to their field. I've come across research talking about how mindfulness can reduce stress, pain, anxiety, make people more [...]
Bridging the Gap Between “You” and the “You” you want to be
What is between the "you" you are right now and the "you" you want to become? I'm not talking about what happens to you - I'm talking about the deepest "you" that experiences it all. All of it. The joys and the sorrows. The good fortune and the rotten luck. Who do you want that to be? [...]