Guided meditation: Relating mindfully to COVID-19 stress
We are currently in moment in history of collective uncertainty. And learning how to be in wise relationship to uncertainty is more important now than […]
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: 6 Skills to Living a Richer and More Meaningful Life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT (pronounced in one word), was developed by Dr. Steven Hayes and his research team and has, in the last decade or so, become one of the leading mindfulness-based interventions.
Top 10 Research Findings for the MBSR Program
Here are a few highlights of what these studies have found participating in the MBSR program can help with: Reduce Stress Perhaps the most obvious […]
How To (Finally) Quiet Your Mind – The Quest to Find the Mind’s “Off Switch”
Yet, one of the reasons you probably came to this practice is that annoying little hamster in your head that never stops spinning — thinking, […]
Cultivating Patience
Mindfulness practice is more than just a technique for bringing a wandering or inattentive mind back to the present. Practicing mindfulness is an art; it involves cultivating certain ways of being, or attitudes, that offer different ways of returning to the present moment. One of these attitudes is patience.
6 Reasons We Can’t Find Lasting Happiness and What We Can Do About It
If we reflect on what it is that all of us essentially want, it can generally be summed up as: wanting to find lasting happiness. The unfortunate reality, however, is that the way we got about finding lasting happiness often doesn’t work. Here are 6 reasons why that is
