Mindfulness-Based Self-Care
Infuse Mindfulness in Every Self-Care Activity
It can be a challenge to spend considerable time engaged in self-care—in what we truly need—when we would rather be working or playing or chasing what we want. Unless we use self-care activities…
Steps to Live According to Conscious Choice
Set an intention to make conscious choices throughout the day, each day.
The first step is a matter of focus, of deciding how you want to direct your thoughts. Since most of us live quite unconsciously most of the time, setting the intention…
What Are You Choosing?
Choose to Live with Mastery & Wellbeing
The crux of living with mastery & wellbeing is the ability to recognize and take advantage of a simple fact: that every moment of the day presents an opportunity to choose how you will…
When Experiential Avoidance Is Healthy
Recently, I’ve been addressing the dangers of how cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance can prevent us from living in full contact with our present moment, lived experiences. However, there are situations where going into a trance and…
Video: Shifts in Consciousness Improve Recovery Rates for Cancer and other Diseases
This discussion explored shifts in consciousness that are associated with improved recovery rates for cancer and other diseases. Patients with a sense of control and who are empowered tend to heal faster. Acceptance for our present circumstances,…
Improve Health and Well-Being with the Mind
Many of us living with chronic health challenges have become interested in learning how conscious intention and mindfulness may be able to improve health and well-being. Frustration, sadness, fear and dread are just some of the feelings to which…
The Practice of Living Mindfully
Can’t Meditate? The practice of mindfulness is available to everyone. And as the definitions and descriptions in my April 20th post show, mindfulness is not complicated. Still, it isn’t easy to do, for three reasons: 1. It requires…
Practicing in the Eye of the Hurricane: Part Two
Ordinarily, when we are fully engaged in the activity at hand, fully aware in the peaceful eye of the present moment, we are unflappable when things go wrong and we can actually thrive when they do. We accomplish this by training ourselves to…
The Slippery Slope of Optimism
Optimism is the single most frequently cited attribute of healthy and happy people. But who is truly optimistic?
Research psychologist Martin Seligman
found that, to be effective, optimism must be embodied. Putting up a false front of optimism…