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7 Tools To Tackle Tech Addiction With Mindfulness
Do you check Facebook when you first wake up in the morning? Are you tempted to text while you drive? If so, you’re not alone. Sura recently shared a wonderful video on the Huffington Post blog about this. Here is how she describes it in her article: Do you check Facebook when you first wake…
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How Can Nature Help You?
Have you gotten your dose of nature this week? The benefits of being outdoors are so many, but us city-dwellers tend to spend most of our time in the office, in the car, at home, rarely venturing off the beaten path and into the woods. In fact, a 2009 report from the Environmental Protection Agency…
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Relax, And Let The Truth Arrive
Over the past blog posts, we’ve been looking at our tendency to grasp at pleasurable thoughts and push away the painful. If we are attached to either pleasure or pain, we set ourselves up for inevitable disappointment. When the pleasure passes, discontentment arises (“Aw! I wanted more of that!”). Wallowing in pain, discontentment is just…
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The Feelings That Colors Everything
How do you feel today? Where did this feeling come from? Today we’ll continue our exploration of the second foundation of mindfulness, the contemplation of feeling as feeling. We talked about how when we initially perceive an experience, there is an instantaneous feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. This feeling arises pre-thought. Without even…
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What Does Feeling Have To Do With It?
Two days ago I mentioned how nice it was to have some downtime while on vacation, and how we all need to take this time for ourselves. The last week of my vacation was spent on a 7-day meditation retreat at Spirit Rock. Talk about contrast! The retreat was organized around the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.…
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The Importance Of Downtime
The first thing I came to understand while traveling in Northern California was the importance of creating downtime. Taking time to really unplug from the routine and enjoy some contrast. Contrast highlights the differences of our surroundings. Without contrast, things can begin to look and feel a bit dull. The edges of our daily experience…
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What Are You Waiting For?
Today is as good a day as any to step fully into Now, don’t you think? Relaxing at the beach on Sunday, I realized something: I wasn’t at the beach. I mean, I was physically there, but I wasn’t actually there. As I lay on the sand atop my blanket, with the waves crashing melodically,…
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Balance And Freedom ?! Yes Way!
Wouldn’t you agree that feeling good is more than just a state of mind? This past week of running around, traveling, preparing for a speaking engagement, and working with clients, showed me how important balance is to staying positive. I saw how, when I didn’t get enough rest, the feelings of fatigue colored my outlook.…
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Meet The Resistance And Win
We all procrastinate at some time or another — even the overachievers. But not all of us see our tendency to do it. Or understand why we do. It just sort of happens, right? We have the best intentions. We’re going to get up and work on the project we’ve been putting off — we’ve…
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Flexibility, A Cure
You have a set way of doing things. You brush your teeth a certain way; go about your morning ritual a certain way; take a certain route to work; dress, talk, style your hair, even eat a certain way. You might say that these ways are just how you do things. “This is who I…