Transition Is In The Air

Greetings mindful friends, Transition is in the air and it’s palpable. Whether you have kids going back to school or you’re simply feeling the shift from summer to autumn, change is in the air. Mindfulness can help us transition gently and process whatever...

Riding the waves of emotion

It takes about 90 seconds to experience an emotion. Anything after that is ruminating. This is the difference between suffering and optional suffering. The mind gets busy. We choose to tell the stress story to everyone we know. Each time we relive the situation we put...

Calming the mind chatter

The human mind is capable of doing amazing things. At the same time it suffers from mind chatter or monkey mind— the constant stream of uncontrolled thoughts going on in the back of the mind.   With an untrained mind we spend much of our time worrying about...

Mindfully Managing Technology

We’re exposed to screens — TVs, cellphones, even G.P.S. devices — for about 8.5 hours on any given day. On average we check our smart phones 150 times a day. We have cable TV packages providing us access to thousands of shows and movies. We can even take our...