…open to a sense of spaciousness, ease, and joy. As always, please share your thoughts, stories and questions below. Your interaction creates a living wisdom for us all to benefit from. Adapted from Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Sign up for Elisha Goldstein’s A Course in Mindful Living Check out PsychAlive’s Webinar with Elisha Goldstein: A Short Course in Mindful Living…
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…s, fight depression and lead to overall benefits in health and well-being. Mindfulness meditation can help us to acknowledge these thoughts as momentary feelings that will pass like clouds over a mountain. Learn more about mindfulness. Conquer your critical inner voice – Voice Therapy is a method developed by Dr. Robert Firestone. The five steps of this therapeutic process allow people to identify, respond to and challenge their critical inner voi…
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…They are finding each other through meetup.com, through courses or in the mindfulness field they’ll be integrating together deeply in A Course in Mindful Living. The Bottom line Just think, if you had a clan of people around you who were interested in making the same changes you’re interested in and you had frequent contact with them, would making those changes be easier? The answer is undoubtedly yes and experience shows it. The point here is if…
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…integration helps us calm down and feel more balanced. Wheel of Awareness Mindfulness practice can be a life-changing tool for people who experience anxiety. Dr. Siegel created the Wheel of Awareness as an excellent practice for helping us calm down and actually integrate our brain. The exercise helps us to slow down our minds and nonjudgmentally look at any sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts before we choose to express them in our action…
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…st importantly, by not acting on its directives. 4. Practice mindfulness A mindfulness practice has been shown to help people healing from loss and dealing with grief. So many of us are grieving the loss of time with loved ones. By embracing mindfulness, you acknowledge your thoughts and feelings without judgment, and you let them pass like clouds over a mountaintop. Most of us have minds racing in this uncertain time. Taking time to sit and focus…
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…own in self-evaluation and self-criticism. Practice Mindfulness Meditation Mindfulness meditation is a practice that allows us to sit with our thoughts and feelings without judgment. As Dr. Neff put it, “Mindfulness in the context of self-compassion involves being aware of one’s painful experiences in a balanced way that neither ignores nor ruminates on disliked aspects of oneself or one’s life.” It’s probably no great surprise, that Dr. Neff’s Mi…
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…g it. This practice is known as mindfulness meditation. Through practicing mindfulness – or being able to stay in the moment without judgment – the mind develops strength of attention and the power of focus. By loosening one’s mental hold on a constructed ideal and becoming curious rather than controlling, a person actually has the chance to “wake up,” or become enlightened, in this lifetime. Just as an athlete’s physical regime allows for peak pe…
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…weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” Mindfulness is a practice of, not necessarily choosing our thoughts, but choosing how we react to our thoughts and not letting them take over. Mindfulness meditation, for example, teaches us to focus on our breath and tune in with our bodies. As we do this, we can notice individual thoughts as if they are train cars passing on a track. We can acknowledge each one without ch…
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…because of the hectic pace of our lives. Consider building a new habit of mindfulness, noticing the present moment. Use your newfound time to be deliberate about noticing the sights, smells, tastes, sounds and touch you experience. While we often brush past these aspects of experience, slowing down to notice these things becomes a resource to rely on. Practicing mindfulness can keep us grounded in the present, rather than getting lost in memories…
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…en books like The Peaceful Piggy, which introduces them to the benefits of mindfulness and how it can help them develop the ability to remain calm, even in the face of bullying. For advice on teaching mindfulness to children, parents can read The Whole-Brain Child, which offers techniques for developing “mindsight,” the ability to see what is going on in our minds and the minds of others. This helps our children be able to recognize their own reac…
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