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4 Home Remedies for Being More Relaxed

…way of achieving sustainable balance and happiness, and meditation is key. Mindfulness meditation is a more cerebral technique in that it encourages you to observe your thoughts and anxieties, look for patterns, and detect their sources. In other words, it involves a non-judgmental analyzation of the human condition and finding peace and balance between good and bad and pleasant and unpleasant. 2. Drink Green Tea Drinking green tea is another grea…

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VIDEO: Dr. Peter Levine on Helping Children who Experience Trauma

…some moments. But then if we learn to attend to it, it’s a kind of a body-mindfulness,a body-ness, that it will move through, and then the parents are able to be there in the present. And then they come up to the child –depending on the age — if it’s a young child, to take the child into their arms to hold it. If it’s a little bit older child, to sit by its side, to put their hand, very often, on their upper back to give them support and just to…

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Sleep Deprivation, sleep and mental health, insomnia

Why Sleep is So Necessary and in Such Short Supply

…the deep connection to yourself with some deep breathing exercises, learn Mindfulness. Keep the journal bedside in case you do remember a dream and write it down verbatim. When you wake in the morning, rather than jump out of bed or begin to review your task list, see if you can stay with the last image of a dream, or gently check into the physical sensations of this body transitioning into waking time, take three slow deep breaths, maybe, if you…

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The Last Jubilee by Stan Friedman

…who has recently relocated his private practice to West Los Angeles from San Mateo, California after 25 years. He specializes in adult and adolescent psychotherapy, with a particular interest in attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology and mindfulness practice. He is on the clinical faculty of Chope Hospital in San Mateo and the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been responsible for arranging continuing education programs for the San Mate…

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4 Mindful Ways to Start Your Week

…them intentionally feels good. It also serves as a reminder that you can always choose how you want to respond to situations, be they good or bad. Try these 4 things each morning as an experiment to see how your life changes. Adapted from Mindfulness & Psychotherapy P.S. I offer a simple yet powerful meditation to Relax and Awaken in the first lesson in A Course in Mindful Living – my 6-month online mentorship program to help you live with greater…

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VIDEO: Reap the Benefits of Mindful Living

…their insomnia. Because what’s insomnia? A racing mind? What’s meditation mindfulness: Eradicating a runaway mind. So it’s just incredibly beneficial. So that’s one way to do it is before you get up and when you go to sleep at night, when you’re sitting at the traffic light, anytime you’re feeling the anxiety kind of rising, just return to your breath. And the most important breath is the out breath. The out breath is associated with letting go….

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VIDEO: Sitting Meditation Practice

…ly naturally start emulating that in our life. So we are more upright in life. We’re standing with better posture and with better posture, we’re more present, we’re happier. And if we’re shlumping, we’re going to shlump through life and there’s no remedy for that. But mindfulness and formal sitting practice does that to us, this new posture. And I found even with myself, I’ll sit more upright or I’ll, you know, it opens up our heart, it opens up o…

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VIDEO: Teaching Children to Be More Mindful

…very active in teaching children in school what she calls focusing because mindfulness is too scary or meditation is too scary. So, and this is another important point – they spend a lot of time with children working on their senses – What do you see? What can you touch? What can you smell? So that they’re actually connected in their bodies. They can start learning feeling words. And, yeah, I think it’s really important. And her work, what she’s d…

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What is Mindsight? An Interview with Dr. Dan Siegel

…ght is a construct that’s a bit larger than insight. It’s even larger than mindfulness, because it’s really not just about being present moment to moment, but it’s about being present so you monitor what’s going on, but then modify what’s happening. So it’s an empowering action-oriented way of describing the power of the mind to actually change the structure and function of the brain. That you aren’t prisoner to the synaptic legacy that you had be…

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Social Anxiety vs. Shyness: The Difference Between Social Anxiety and Shyness

…ontrol the anxiety. Patients learn effective skills through relaxation and mindfulness training, role-playing, and social skills training. Systematic exposures increase sufferers’ ability to face their fears, while cognitive restructuring teaches them to identify negative thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety. Conclusion Although SAD is the third most common mental health disorder affecting as many as 10 million Americans, there is effectiv…

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