
Self-control is hard. It takes effort to delay gratification—to override your immediate urges for the sake of your long-term goals
Guest author Dr. Andrea Martin explores the importance of unplugging.
Leslie Roberts: The headline reads: “How Childhood stress can knock 20 years off your life.” When we talk about childhood stress, we’re not talking about the most extreme, we’re talking about probably things that happen at your house and back in the day we didn’t realize what parents were doing to their kids, and I would say you know as I always do, parents do the best they can with the tools they have but a lot of toolkits were missing a few tools and as a result kids had some childhood experiences that could be affecting them later on into adulthood and I think that’s a conversation we have to have because a) you could have it and not know it and it could answer some of the questions about why you are the way you are why you react the way you do and b) there is something you can do about it
In this video MindSpace founder Dr. Joe Flanders shows Global’s Kim Sullivan some basic mindfulness techniques to help alleviate stress and achieve inner peace.
MindSpace is thrilled to be working with the Centre for Mindfulness Studies (CMS) to bring you teacher certification programs for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Dr Joe Flanders sits down for an interview with Leslie Roberts of CJAD 800 radio April 21, 2017
I was first introduced to formal meditation practice in a Zen dojo in 1994. At the time, my life was chaotic and it would remain so for another 10 years. On several occasions over these ten years, I tried to build a regular meditation practice. Although I never managed more than meditating intermittently, I have no doubt that what little practice I did manage helped me. It helped me by giving me a direct experience of distancing from my thoughts. I had previously experienced what I thought as being a part of my essence, as what was defining me, and thus of the utmost importance.
Dr Joe Flanders sits down for an interview with Leslie Roberts of CJAD 800 radio April 5, 2017.
Many people lack motivation every day as they make their way to their workplace. This may be due to many factors which should be detected and analyzed in order to once again be enthusiastic about one’s job.
Check out this feature on Dr. Joe in the Montreal Gazette in 2013