We all get affected by bad moods from time to time. When we are in a bad mood, mindfulness can help us find some flexibility and choice, so we don’t have to feel completely at the mercy of our bad mood. How do we do it? Mindfulness is just noticing our experience. We can observeContinue reading “How Can Mindfulness Help When I’m in a Bad Mood?”
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How is Mindfulness Related to Buddhism?
Mindfulness is ubiquitous these days. From healthcare and education to executive leadership, it is held up as a powerful practice that can help unlock the deep reservoirs of resilience and confidence that we all have inside. But what is mindfulness and where did it come from? “Mindfulness” is a term/technique extracted from Buddhism, which originatedContinue reading “How is Mindfulness Related to Buddhism?”
How Do I Live in the Present?
Many people come to mindfulness practice because they want to learn how to live in the present more. The mindfulness technique is noticing when we are wrapped up in the future or the past, when our mind is caught up somewhere else, and then letting those thoughts go, and coming back to the present. TheContinue reading “How Do I Live in the Present?”
How Do I Find Peace?
I’ve heard many people say that they want to learn mindfulness meditation because they want to have some peace in their lives. How do we find peace, and what does mindfulness have to do with peace? Peace comes from the Latin word “pax” which means “tranquility, absence of war.” Our lives can be very busyContinue reading “How Do I Find Peace?”
How Do I Practice with Grief, Loss, and Sadness?
We experience grief when there is loss in our lives. There are many types of loss: Loss of a loved one, a relationship, an identity, an object, a community. It can also be loss of vitality, loss of health, loss of a particular way of life. Grief is a process through which we come toContinue reading “How Do I Practice with Grief, Loss, and Sadness?”
How Do I Work with Strong Emotions?
Mindfulness practice is simply watching everything appear and disappear in this moment. Emotions, like everything else, appear and disappear on their own. With mindfulness training, we can just watch them come and go, without getting pulled in different directions. Emotions become difficult and create suffering when they are not able to come and go naturally,Continue reading “How Do I Work with Strong Emotions?”
How Do I Practice Mindfulness?
Pay attention to this present moment, on purpose, and without judgment. Mindfulness is the nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. It is, at its core, a practice of attention training. We begin by placing our attention on our breath. Just following our breath as it flows in and out. Perhaps connecting with the cool sensationContinue reading “How Do I Practice Mindfulness?”
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