Only 10 more shopping days until Christmas! That really means only ten more days of figuring out what you are going to get this year for all those “hard to buy for” people on your list. Ten more days of deciding what will be the replacement for that “must have” gift that is no longer…
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Mindfulness moment – blessing
Our experiences are directly impacted by where we place our attention, or to which inner voice we choose to listen to at any moment. The body has great wisdom. When it speaks in a way that does not serve you, consider that it is another voice that is actually speaking. At those times, the voice…
Mindfulness moment – good mantra
If you are going to repeat something over and over to yourself, you might as well make it something good.
Mindfulness moment – the best day
While we look back fondly at past days, and ahead with anticipation to future days, there is only one day that tops them all. Today. That’s because today is the only day for us to live.
Mindfulness moment – how to live
Go ahead and turn up the volume on your life.
The need to know
It’s not what you don’t know that that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain Perhaps one of the biggest hoaxes we play on ourselves is the belief that we can know something for certain. Hundreds of years ago people were sure that the earth was…
Mindfulness moment – be alive
Mindfulness moment – let it go
Breathe. Whatever small or large burden you are carrying, just for a moment let it go.
Mindful living – choosing in the moment
There are lots of misconceptions about what it means to live mindfully. Somehow we have the idea that being present means we won’t ever speak harshly, or impulse shop or eat the whole bag of chips. Being present doesn’t mean we always make good choices. Quite the opposite. Being present simply means that we are…
One thing you need to start doing
There’s a zen saying, “don’t just do something, sit there” which messes with our conventional wisdom that there is something wrong with doing nothing. If you look around there aren’t too many people doing nothing. In fact in our multi-tasking obsessed world, everybody is busy doing something all the time. It’s not just our bodies…