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The Importance of Choosing Your Thoughts

…en in this state, including play time, physical time, and connecting time. Mindfulness meditation is another healthy practice we can adopt that has been proven, not only to improve the quality of our lives, but to possibly extend the length of our lives. When we learn to meditate, we learn to choose our thoughts. We are better able to consciously steer away from the directives of our critical inner voice. At first, this can be quite a challenge, a…

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Why We Need to Teach Kids Emotional Intelligence

…rations? One place to start is with mindfulness. Studies have found that a mindfulness practice can help reduce symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety in children. It can also increase gray matter density in regions of the brain involved in emotional regulation. Another study of adolescents found that yoga, which can increase mindfulness, helped improve student’s emotional regulation capacity. On a systemic level, we can help raise the emotion…

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The Simplest & Most Effective Technique I’ve Found for Reducing Stress

…cticing mindfulness to reduce stress. However, the very idea of practicing mindfulness can feel daunting to many of us. So, in the hopes of making 2018 a less stressful year for you, I’m going to offer one simple, quick and foolproof method for decreasing anxiety: 4-7-8 breathing. Here’s how it works. Breathe in through your nose for four seconds. Hold the breath for seven seconds. Breathe out through your mouth for eight seconds. Repeat this brea…

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The Art of Calming Down

…responds to the world around us.” We can cultivate this capacity by using mindfulness skills. Mindfulness allows us to see our thoughts and feelings like ships passing on the horizon. We can watch each silhouette sail by, but we don’t need to hop aboard and get carried away. So many of our thoughts and feelings overpower us and take the wheel when it comes to our behavior. By using techniques like meditation and simple breathing exercises, we can…

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Making Sense of Trauma

…on anyone. Embracing the three elements of self-compassion (self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity) are three ways to face what happened to you without punishing yourself or inflicting further suffering. 3. Feel the feelings – Emotions are likely to come up throughout this process. They may come consistently or arrive when you least expect. Try to accept your feelings and allow yourself to feel them. They may feel intense, but it’s helpfu…

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Grow with a Learning Mindset!

…Uncovering Happiness and MBSR Every Day: Daily Practices from the Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. If you’ve followed my writings you know I’m a big fan of short phrases to help us grow from the inevitable obstacles of life. In this post, I’d like to introduce you to one of these phrases: Forgive, Investigate, and Invite Did you recently fall short in a parenting moment, a business meeting, an intimate relationship, or in trying to cre…

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Practice the Change You Wish to See in the World

…confident, practice confidence. – If you want to be more mindful, practice mindfulness. – If you want to be more loving, practice loving yourself and others. – If you want to be more forgiving and to let go of stress-laden emotional burdens, practice forgiveness. – If you want a life filled with more compassion and generosity, 2 essential elements for lasting happiness, practice compassion and generosity. While simple on paper, in practice it’s a…

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Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human with Dr. Daniel Siegel

    In this Webinar: Imagine waking up to the realization that the fields that focus on the mind—from mental health and education to psychiatry and psychology—do not actually define what the mind actually is. Without knowing what mind is, how can we then say what a healthy mind might be and how we could go about developing one for ourselves and for others? In this Webinar, neuropsychiatrist and author, Dan Siegel, M.D., will explore these finding…

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Overcoming Depression: Two-Part Online Workshop

…ses people can engage in to reduce symptoms of depression Tools to enhance mindfulness, self-compassion, and a positive sense of self Depression the most common mental health disorder in the United States, affecting nearly one in 10 adults. According to the World Health Organization, by the year 2020, depression will be the second most common health problem in the world. With depression on the rise, it is perhaps more important than ever to seek t…

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Creating a More Positive Identity

…has written of three elements that make up self-compassion: self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. Self-kindness helps us to stop all the self-evaluation and assessment and instead, be curious, open, and loving when it comes to how we regard ourselves. Mindfulness allows us to sit with our thoughts and feelings without over-identifying or becoming inextricably linked and bogged down by our critical inner voices. Finally, common humanity…

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