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Mindfulness & Loneliness
There are many people who feel alone in the midst of the crowd. How can mindfulness relieve that feeling of loneliness? #loneliness
Mindfulness & Compassion
Compassion is greatly needed in the world of today. It is an integral part of mindfulness practice and is a core quality of the present...
My Short video on Mindfulness: Fun, Humor and Curiosity
Life can be a struggle and so often we lose touch with our sense of humor and our ability to have fun and explore. Mindfulness can...
Mindfulness: ADD & ADHD
There is an epidemic of ADD and ADHD affecting both children and adults. Since the core skill of mindfulness is paying attention to the...
Mindfulness and the Element of Surprise:
Most of us like our lives to be predictable and follow a linear path. We spend a lot of time and energy trying to line things up that...
Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering/Spacing Out
I recently read an article about mindfulness and mind-wandering. It was a good article albeit too wordy which ironically tends to move me...
Mindfulness and the Breath…The Common Denominator
For years I’ve debated with myself about what the most effective and direct approach is to bringing the present moment experience into my...
Mindfulness, Stress and Attention
Let’s explore attention as it relates to mindfulness and stress by starting with a baseline definition: “Attention is the behavioral and...
Is There a Right Place to Practice Mindfulness Meditation?
I’ve been asked many times if there is an ideal place to practice formal mindfulness meditation. Like so many of my answers I tend to say...
What Does It Mean to Achieve Mindfulness?
We live in a culture of achievement so naturally we are all curious about how to achieve mindfulness. For many years I believed that...
Mindfulness and Short Cuts
Over the past two to three years as mindfulness becomes more commercialized I’ve been noticing more and more claims for short cuts to the...
Mindfulness: Back to Basics…the Breath
There’s a tendency to make mindfulness practice more complicated than it is. There’s a lot of reasons for this. Two that come to mind are...
Mindfulness: Why Issues Are Not The Issue
Mindfulness is able to address so many different issues that it is difficult to mention them all in a short blog. The general categories...
The Bare Simplicity of Why Mindfulness Works
There are now well over 2000 studies that attest to the efficacy of mindfulness. The studies cover the fields of physical, mental and...
How to Create the Mindfulness Habit
We humans are called creatures of habit so it would make sense to explore how we can utilize our natural tendencies to create the...
Mindfulness and Monkey/Racing Mind
Over the years one of the primary reasons people have come to my classes has been to address what is commonly known as monkey mind or...
Mindfulness and the Military
It seems like mindfulness is being applied to almost every sector of society. That, of course is a good thing. One sector that has me...
Mindfulness And The Past
So much of the way we deal with our issues is geared towards figuring out something that happened in the past. We can spend years delving...
Mindfulness and Leadership
There are many theories about what makes a leader. Leadership is described in Wikipedia as “a process of social influence in which a...
Mindfulness: Why Pay Attention to the Bad Stuff?
With so much attention being paid to happiness and positive psychology lately one has to wonder why mindfulness emphasizes the importance...
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