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Everyday Mindfulness

Everyday mindfulness is a practice of applying mindfulness attitudes and practices in our everyday life. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. Thich Nhat Hanh Every day I wake up early, feed Eos, and practice yoga, meditation, and mindful writing. Some days Eos goes back […]

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Creativity Mindfulness

Mindfulness Creativity and Healing

Mindfulness creativity and healing practices can support our wellbeing. Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment with kindness and curiosity. Creativity practices keep our attention focused on the present moment and allow us to be rather than get entangled in so much doing. My favorite holistic optometrist once said to me that the key to […]

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Mindful Life Project

Katie Couric recently conducted a powerful interview with JG Laurochette, founder of Mindful Life Project. Laurochette was teaching 3rd grade in Richmond, CA and was significantly impacted by the violence and extreme oppression that his students were experiencing. He says that he internalized the students’ oppression, which led to a deep depression. In order to […]

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Look on the Bright Side: How to Support Someone with Low Self-Esteem

We’ve all known friends, coworkers or lovers who simply don’t like themselves or have low self-esteem. We see the good in them that they can’t see, and it feels frustrating and often downright painful trying to cheer them up or help them to see the bright side, because they reject our every effort to give […]

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Gratitude for Life

Gratitude for life is what I have in my heart and mind today. Today I am celebrating my 50th birthday! I embrace this coming year as a new journey and adventure, each moment as a gift and an opportunity, each laugh line as a fond memory, and each wrinkle as a lesson learned. I feel […]

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Mindfulness Everyday: Finding Amazement in Ordinary Life

Mindfulness every day can help us to find amazement in the ordinary happenings of daily life. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. –Henry Ward Beecher When we slow down and make time to be fully present in the moment, we have access to happiness and a […]

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Authenticity with Mindfulness Practice

Authenticity with mindfulness opens us to our most authentic self and authentic life. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. ― Carl Jung When we live authentically, we embrace the genuineness of who we truly are. We become willing to risk judgment, rejection or conflict, because the price of pretending […]

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The Cure for Anything

The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears or the sea.—Isak Denison When the heart aches under the weight of loss, the tendency is to contract and turn away. Healing comes from turning toward, softening into loss and opening the heart to the ache of losing something precious. Tears of sadness, like waves, cleanse and […]

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Awakening Joy with Mindfulness

Awakening joy with mindfulness, we open our hearts to let in joy. We seek, notice, and savor moments of joy to nurture wellbeing. Joy arises when we are open to both the beauty and suffering inherent in living. –Tara Brach We can begin to open our hearts to the experience of awakening joy with mindfulness […]

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The Nature of Change

The nature of change is that change is an inherent part of the natural order of things. Everything is impermanent, including all of us. We cling to the changes that we love, and we resist or fight against the changes that cause us suffering. Try to tune in to the rhythms of nature. The leaves […]