Spoiler alert: mindfulness is not about being calm! It’s not about making your thoughts go away. And it doesn’t always feel pleasant. (But you should do it anyway) This week I had the opportunity to …
Being a parent is hard. Super hard. You are often overwhelmed, under-prepared, overtired, and under-resourced. Mindfulness can’t make all that go away. It can’t stop the screaming toddler, the grunting teenager, or the colicky baby. …
This meditation is all about finding ease in and with whatever is happening in the present moment.
School is all about learning new things and training your brain. You can’t learn something new if you don’t know what’s already in your head. It’s the first day of a new semester. I’m standing …
You don’t have to be good at meditation. You don’t have to get anywhere or accomplish anything. It’s enough to just sit there. As someone who is a lifelong perfectionist and achiever, if not over-achiever, …
Following your breath is one of the most basic mindfulness practices. We use the breath as an anchor for our attention. The mind wanders off…we gently bring it back.
Meditation needs a serious PR makeover. A major image reboot. If you do a google search for meditation, you’ll come up with all sorts of pictures of beautiful people on the beach. They look calm. …
My goal as a professor and mindfulness facilitator is to get my students to wonder, to check out what’s on their minds, to challenge their assumptions, and trust in their own wisdom. In this presentation, …
