Author and mindfulness educator, Susan Kaiser Greenland, offers some tips on how to help your kids manage stress in this brief video clip highlighting her book, “The Mindful Child”. You can also visit her site for more information about her highly innovative and acclaimed Inner Kids program which is affiliated with the Mindful Awareness Research […]

The word “compassion” comes from the latin word “com pati”- to “suffer with”. Be observant.

Thanks to the fine people at Sounds True, they are offering a free live video stream of the majority of this year’s historic “Creating a Mindful Society” conference. This mindfulness event is happening in NYC on Friday (Sept. 30) and Saturday (Oct. 1) featuring keynote presentations by four outstanding leaders in the mindfulness field—Jon Kabat-Zinn, Richard […]

Our mindfulness practice helps to create a shift in emphasis from “me” to “us”- and this can be very beneficial in reducing interpersonal conflict. Be observant.

Have you ever formally examined the relationship between your emotional patterns and the symptomology of your bodily disorders? Be observant.

Take a couple of moments before beginning this practice to just allow the mind to settle and the body to relax naturally. It might help to take 2-3 deep breaths into the belly… When you are ready, start with the inhalation- and aim your attention on the sensation of the movement of air as you […]

In our sitting practice cultivating a “discerning awareness” allows us to observe the distinction of our physical pain and/or discomfort from our distress about it. Be observant.

Mindfulness is both a process (i.e. practice) and an outcome (i.e. awareness). We intentionally attend in an open, caring, and discerning way. From this process, our awareness illuminates the reality of our experiences and the nature of our humanity. Be observant.

Mindfulness is a universal human capacity. Its process is experiential drawing out the natural intelligence of our species. Be observant.

Stressed Teens, otherwise known as the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T) Program, was founded in 2004. Stressed Teens has been demonstrated through research to be an effective and evidence-based intervention to reduce adolescent stress and the physical and psychological problems that result. Stressed Teens is adapted in a variety of ways to accommodate the […]