Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness’
Mindfulness During the Holidays
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie It is easy to become disconnected from mindfulness during the holidays. The holiday season is often filled with copious stimulation from the external world of the senses and the internal world of thoughts, emotions, and sensations. When…
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How to Practice Nonjudgmental Mindfulness
“Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.” – Frederick W. Faber Mindfulness involves an attitude of radical acceptance,…
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5 Ways to Let Go of Judgment & Fear
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung Judgment and fear have a tendency to hold you back from living a rich and meaningful life that is based on your true values and establishing harmony in relationships. There is often a high price to pay for living…
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Mindfulness Exercises for People Who Are “Too Busy” to Meditate
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha Life means constant and inevitable change. Sometimes that change takes the form of dust accumulating bit by bit on a bookshelf and at other times change manifests itself as a major life transition. There…
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Use Mindfulness to Manage ADHD
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.” – Alexander Graham Bell Upon initial consideration, it may appear that using mindfulness to address the symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) would be a frustrating, if not useless, enterprise. The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…
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Use Mindfulness to Get More Alert, Creative & Productive
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw We all experience difficult emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations that can act as powerful deterrents to performing at our optimal levels of alertness, creativity, and productivity. There is little use trying to…
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3 Mindfulness Exercises to Soothe an Anxious Mind
“I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.” – Edith Armstrong Sometimes anxiety enters our experience in the positive and motivating form of eustress, whereas…
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Increase Mindfulness of Pleasant Experiences
“For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.” – Rabindranath Tagore Mindfulness allows us to open to the constantly unfolding present moment. When we are aware of the…
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How to Mindfully Sit with Anxiety
“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.” – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld If you want to deal with anxious feelings more effectively, it is quite helpful to begin to mindfully change your relationship with anxiety. When you learn to think about anxiety differently and respond to it in the…
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4-Step Mindfulness Exercise for Anxiety
“No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, the best of now and here.” – John Whittier Anxiety sweeps us away from the present moment into a flurry of thoughts and emotions about the past and the future. We may become overwhelmed by worry over…
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