How do we create deep connection with ourselves and others? We move through life with our hearts either open or closed. We either embrace vulnerability and take risks to move toward what we want, or we shut down and move away from it. We either approach ourselves and others with tenderness, love, and compassion, or […]
How to be happy by Eos the Chihuahua. When you wake up, roll over on your back, stretch your arms up in the air, and think about the healthy breakfast you’re about to eat. Turn toward the person you love, look into their eyes, smile, and kiss them. When you get out of bed, do […]
When we live well, we feel a greater sense of life satisfaction. Living mindfully can support us in living well. What does it mean to live mindfully? It means we pay attention to moment to moment experience — through sensations in the body, feelings, and thoughts. When we live mindfully, we use the information that […]
Remember who you wanted to be. Have you forgotten? At some point, many of us have dreams about our life–how we want to live, how we imagine feeling, who we want to be. Sometimes, life goes quickly by, we go through life not living mindfully or intentionally, and our dreams get lost. We forget what […]
We can learn to cultivate happiness. For most of us, happiness isn’t something that happens to us or comes naturally. It’s something that we must make effort toward. Our state of happiness can be improved by first noticing any habitual patterns that contribute to a state of unhappiness—such as negative thinking, comparing ourselves unfavorably to […]
Go for great in your life by creating mindful intentions. If you’ve landed on this article, you’re likely searching for something to support you in making changes. The call to change may come as a quiet whisper, so faint that if we’re not paying attention, we miss it. Or it may arise as a “gut […]
Indecision may or may not be my problem. –Jimmy Buffet Indecision can sometimes feel painful. Our reactivity to our own difficulty in deciding is that we want to decide something, anything, but in the wanting to decide, we are wanting things to be other than they are, which only increases our suffering. Try turning toward […]
Practicing patience is something that we can do in our daily mindfulness or meditation practice. At times we may find ourselves trying to get somewhere, rush an outcome, or make the unknown known. When we are practicing patience, we come to accept that our lives are a process of unfolding. If we can learn to […]
Self-criticism can have a negative impact on our health and wellbeing. It creates stress and negatively affects our mood and self-esteem. The nature of the mind is sometimes to evaluate ourselves or our circumstances with negative critical commentary. By practicing mindfulness, we become aware of this tendency, and this awareness gives us the freedom to […]
Focus on good with mindfulness. The brain has a negativity bias, so the mind tends to focus on what’s not right with us and the world around us. We can counteract this bias by choosing to focus on the good. When we practice mindfulness we train our attention. We learn how to be aware of […]