Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
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Archive for September, 2016
A•HA… ‘Time Out’
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016Check in and check out for a ‘mental vacation’ throughout the day. See how regularly scheduled ‘time outs’ can help to bring more timelessness & mental stillness into your day. Feel the fullness of settling into the present moment as your attention shifts from a ‘thinking mind’ to a ‘breathing body’. Let peace, stillness & […]
Awakening
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016A deep sense of connection is grounding and calming. It’s a special place that focuses the mind and relaxes the body.
Mindfully Me, ‘Gratitude’
Wednesday, September 7th, 2016Each morning when you awaken, try to remember to give gratitude for the day. Treat each day as if it were a gift. Open your heart and extend ‘thanks’ for other gifts in your life such as family, friends, home, food, etc. Just doing this every morning can help change your attitude about your day […]
Awakening
Wednesday, September 7th, 2016When we hold too tightly, there is little space for change to be possible. Holding ‘loosely’ to our experiences, we open up space for them to be just as they are… for them to come and go… and for change to happen.
‘Mind Matters’… Prefrontal Cortex & Stress
Monday, September 5th, 2016The prefrontal cortex, which sits directly behind the forehead, is our brain’s executive control center. It is the most recently evolved area of the brain that controls our concentration, planning, decision making, error monitoring, etc. It also serves to keep the deeper, more primitive (or primal) areas of the brain like the amygdala, striatum, hypothalamus, […]
Awakening
Monday, September 5th, 2016The stress we experience is much about the choices we make or don’t make. Choose wisely.
Attending: A Day In Nature
Sunday, September 4th, 2016Inspired by Mark Coleman’s “Seven Meditations for Connecting with Nature” Here is a simple “attending” practice to help you reconnect with your natural surroundings… Take a day to be alone in nature. Select a location where you are not likely to be interrupted by many people. You might divide the time of this practice between […]