Mindfulness

You know that feeling where your mind is thinking of 100 things at once? When you can’t stop the thoughts and jump from idea to idea, or worse, from worry to worry? When this happens it can make stress and anxiety worse. However, many people are turning to mindfulness meditation as a popular method to…

Child’s Pose (Balasana) Start on your knees and rest chest and belly on one or two stacked pillows. Knees should be wide apart and big toes are touching. Rest right ear on the pillow. Close eyes and relax the jaw and belly. Arms rest at the sides of pillows. Focus attention on breathing. Rest for…

Ikigai is a Japanese word meaning a reason for being. Simply put, ikigai is your purpose. It’s what gets you up in the morning.  What is your purpose in life? For many of us, our purpose revolves around our family and loved ones. For others, there’s a passion for our career, or reaching a goal such as running…

Here’s a way to practice building your self-discipline muscle while eliminating your tendency to procrastinate. Starting today, look for examples where you may be procrastinating, postponing, or avoiding a task. For example, “I’ll do it later” (i.e., pay the bills, make that call, wash the dishes, floss, start a diet, and so on) For the…

Have you ever felt the need to be perfect? Have you ever needed others around you to be perfect? Or if you aren’t perfect, do you worry that others will value you less? Of course, having high standards is not a bad thing. It can mean you possess character and a strong work ethic! But…

Choose to Succeed It’s an exciting time to be alive, where many are getting educated and an influx of technology allows you to be multi-faceted and have access to information right from your phone or other electronic devices. It’s also a time when many are seeking success in life based on his or her definition…

Working toward (and maintaining) a healthy idea of beauty in yourself and others is the key to lasting happiness and productivity. In a digital world wallpapered with selfies, it might be easy to assume that we are more confident than ever. But maybe all this rampant self-art also masks our huge lack of confidence –…

Recovering from trauma is a process that takes time. It is perfectly normal to feel at times that “I can’t do this anymore.” That is part of the stress that arises from parenting through traumatic situations. However, in order to not get stuck there, you need to take care of yourself. If you are not…

Empathy is defined as  the experience of understanding another person’s condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors. We have heard the word, we have learned what the word means and we have spoken the word in sentences but…