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prioritizing yourself

The Unselfish Art of Prioritizing Yourself

…to self-kindness, she describes two other key elements to self-compassion: mindfulness, which involves learning to accept our thoughts and feelings without over identifying and being overcome by them, and a sense of common humanity, which means not seeing ourselves as isolated or different in our struggles. The reason each of these three elements is important to practice is that they help us stay attuned to ourselves, who we are and what we need w…

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The Space Around Thoughts

…ghts, a meditation teacher once said during a formal sitting practice. But mindfulness provides no easy kick-start, requiring thereafter a personal hyper-vigilance, a growing awareness and friend-making approach toward one’s discursive patterns and internal chatter: Andenken and Inständigkeit, a thinking toward and indwelling in it. While satori’s song provides a new and sometimes soothing soundtrack for the meditator, a recalibration of the exist…

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VIDEO: Meditation You Can Do All Day

…you open your eyes, you’re more present. It works. And it’s so simple. Five breaths, actually six, if you count zero. So, and what that does is that really stops the discursiveness because you can’t be thinking a million thoughts while you’re counting. So those are two really simple mindfulness practices that people can do all through the day that have nothing to do with the formal sitting practice. Not to take any value away from that because tha…

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Nature as Medicine

…world around us and to the present moment, which is an important aspect of mindfulness. This helps us to achieve an inner sense of calm. Getting out into the natural world encourages this type of interaction. As our mind unclutters, we tend to feel more active and alive. Plus, when we’re outside, we naturally tend to move more, which releases endorphins and further boosts our mood and energy level. These attributes benefit people of all ages, but…

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3 Remedies for a Stressed Out World

…busyness of the mind. When one is up, the other is down. Whether you’re walking or washing dishes, listening to a friend, or eating, be mindful of that one simple thing. Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is hosting an online course to help people fully integrate mindfulness into their lives in a deep way in order to realize more enduring change. The in-depth 6-month online course called A Course in Mindful Living runs in January 2017. Check it out and join…

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VIDEO: The True Goal of Meditation

…n is about is training the mind how to come back. It’s really that’s all it’s about. You know, we’re thinking about the kids and school and dinner and that’s always going to be true. But what meditation teaches us how to do and mindfulness it’s how to return from all that discursiveness to this breath, to the here and now of this very moment. So it’s not like trying to get rid of all that discursiveness. It’s about learning how to return from it t…

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VIDEO: Meditation as a Way of Being in the World

In her PsychAlive interview, mindfulness expert Dr. Donna Rockwell talks about meditation as a way of “being in the world in an existential sense.” We don’t even know our own minds, you know, it’s interesting. We live externally and it’s all about getting the right job and the right husband and the right house. And those are not the things that actually satisfy us inwardly. They’re lovely as window dressing. But you can have all that and still be…

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3 Steps to Experience the Perfect Imperfect Moment

…r actual experience. Look out the window of your car. Be in the moment. As mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn says, “Pay attention in the present like your life depends on it.” And if you do get lost, never beat yourself up. Just bring your attention back to the present moment. You can actually strengthen your mind like a muscle by putting your attention where you want it. Life is too precious to waste it lost in our heads, evaluating ourselves, on…

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Psychoeducating Parents to Defeat their Child’s OCD Monster! By Jenny C. Yip, Psy.D.

…at, harm, and danger. Accurately identifying the symptoms of OCD, requires mindfulness. Mindful awareness training is part of CBT, and a necessary component to treatment success. Not participating in OCD behaviors: Once the family understands how they function within the patient’s OCD cycle, family members must agree not to partake in any part of the patient’s ritualistic behaviors. For instance, many pathological doubters seek reassurances from t…

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How to Begin Again: From Wounds to Wisdom

…y suggestion is to use this format of Beginning Anew for ourselves. Create Mindfulness in ourselves (the quality of attention that is open, accepting, curious, non judging—using breath and an embodied practice) Offer appreciation for what we have done Offer our own mourning for how we have not aligned with our intention Express what we long for, rooted in our strength, acknowledge what we might be able to change When we feel defeated, fail to meet…

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