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Mindfulness
19 essays
- Avoiding Social Overstimulation During the COVID-19 PandemicWe can become socially overstimulated even without physical proximity. It may or may not come as a surprise to you, but there is a risk of becoming…March 25, 2020
- Getting Off The Cycle of Discomfort: MindfulnessYou made it! You learned about Trait and State Discomfort, journeyed through the Cycle of Discomfort, and learned how Cognitive Distortions and…December 9, 2019
- Oh, Discomfort! How Do We Get Ourselves There Part IIII think if you're still reading, you are at least partially on board with the idea that we cause the majority of our own state and trait discomfort .…December 7, 2019
- Oh, Discomfort: How Do We Get Ourselves There? Part IIToday we're continuing our exploration of Cognitive Behavioral ideas and how they relate to our internal trait and state discomfort . We talked…December 3, 2019
- Oh, Discomfort. How Do We Get Ourselves There? Part IOk, so we talked about the 2 types of discomfort: state and trait. (You can review that HERE if you need to.) I promised that we'd talk about how we…December 2, 2019
- Trait and State DiscomfortOh. Discomfort. It can look like anxiety, depression, sadness, anger, stress, tension, pain, loneliness, or any number of other words. You name it.…November 26, 2019
- About AcceptanceSometimes, when I tell a new client that my approach is based strongly in acceptance, and I explain that I believe we must accept all of our Selves…November 23, 2019
- Practical Spirituality: Compassionate Self Evaluation and Self CareThe final piece in the Practical Spirituality toolkit is Compassionate Self Evaluation and Self Care. It may well be the most important piece of this…November 18, 2019
- Practical Spirituality: Practicing Value-Based BehaviorPracticing from our new positive value system is pretty easy - As long as we feel good. Right? I know for me, acting with compassion comes…November 13, 2019
- Practical Spirituality: Mindfulness PracticeThe second piece of the Practical Spirituality pie is Mindfulness Practice. First, let's review - what is mindfulness? To paraphrase Jon Kabat-Zin,…November 12, 2019
- Practical SpiritualityWhat the heck is, Practical Spirituality ? Practical Spirituality is not WHAT or WHO you believe (in) or don’t believe (in). It is not about your…November 8, 2019
- Abandoning the Self - Justification, Rationalization and BlameI’ll just jump right into this one. I’ve been in an emotionally taxing situation in one of my personal relationships. I’ve had all the feelings -…November 5, 2019
- Habit-Patterns - A Lost Soul's MagicI find myself thinking a lot about habit-patterns of energy. I am deeply interested in the habit-patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that…August 13, 2019
- Child's Fear, Adult's SabotageMy Child Self has been scared recently... Lately, my Creative Heart has been longing to write stories. I’ve always written, but over the past 30…August 12, 2019
- The Art of Stopping"We have to learn the art of stopping -- stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness, the strong emotions that rule us...When we are…December 3, 2018
- On My Bookshelf: Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn“Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complimentary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful,…December 1, 2018
- On My Bookshelf: The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.” Thich Nhat Hanh The Miracle of…December 1, 2018
- Wake up in this Moment: Part 2Ok. So I hope that you’ve given yourself the opportunity to wake up in the present moment and find the serenity that lives there. If you haven’t…November 26, 2018
- Sitting with Emotions: Sweet SadnessI’m sitting with my back to my window, propped on a meditation pillow. One of my wonderful girls, a Border Collie cross named Sofia, is next to me…October 1, 2018