Mindful Eating: How Eating Rituals Enhance Consumption
“If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.” – Kahlil Gibran Eating rituals take a variety of forms, from blowing out birthday candles before having a decadent slice of birthday cake to preparing your morning cup of coffee in just the “right” way. These sorts of…
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Find Solutions in the “Worst Case Scenario”
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C.S. Lewis Life rarely goes exactly as planned, even for the most conscientious people. Sometimes life’s surprises are joyous, such as falling in love…
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Untangle False Beliefs about Emotions – Part Two
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” – Brian…
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Untangle False Beliefs about Emotions – Part One
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Emotions are a rich source of personal information that offer the potential for tremendous growth… and great suffering. The way in which you tend to deal with feelings generally stems from your core beliefs…
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Loving-Kindness Meditation Improves Health & Wellness
“Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor’s nose.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Most people recognize the multitude of connections between nutrition, exercise, and physical health. It’s easy to see how the nutrients we put into our bodies and the activities we perform impact our overall physical wellness. Perhaps it’s simpler for…
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Learning to Trust Yourself: Mindfulness & Vulnerability
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us there is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E. E. Cummings When was the…
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Harness the Mindfulness of Elite Athletes
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi What is it about elite athletes that makes them stand out from the rest? It requires more than raw physical ability or athletic background to have that special something that defines this group. Many sports fans, aspiring athletes, and…
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Hardiness: Courage to Thrive in the Face of Adversity
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more…
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How to Manage Traumatic Stress
“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine the Great The tragedy that occurred at the 2013 Boston Marathon has brought devastation into the lives of many people who may find themselves feeling emotionally numb, overwhelmed, or in a state of denial. It is natural to feel a wide…
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How to Break Free from Mental Captivity – Part Two
“Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.” – Edward Bulwer Lytton In my last post, “How to Break Free from Mental Captivity – Part One,” we began to explore strategies for developing a more mindful and effective relationship with your internal mental experience. It’s…
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