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VIDEO: Mindfulness Meditation and Happiness

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell talks about mindfulness meditation as a shortcut to realizing happiness. It increases our overall sense of wellbeing and allows us to be here. You know, we can’t be happy if we’re thinking about what happened yesterday and what might happen tomorrow. There’s no happiness in that. You actually have to be present to feel joy and happiness, you know. And there’s just s…

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VIDEO: The Everyday Cultivation of Mindfulness

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell talks about the everyday cultivation of mindfulness. But, you see, the thing I also think is true is that we don’t even – yes, it’s great to have a formal meditation practice. But, what I’ve discovered is that we can practice little mindfulness exercises all through the day. So we can awaken, we can become enlightened all day long. We don’t have to wait until we get…

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VIDEO: How Mindfulness Meditation Allows You to Embrace Yourself

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell talks about how mindfulness meditation allows you to embrace yourself more authentically and tenderly. You know, when you sit there – I meditated, I don’t know, for 15 years before I could really have this have this sort of breakthrough, which is all of that thinking has nothing to do with me. It’s not who I am . It’s just this thing my mind is doing. So, it sort of…

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VIDEO: The True Goal of Meditation

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell talks about the true goal of meditation. Watch or read the interview below. …what meditation’s really about is not about getting to this state of always being able to be right here right now in the present moment. What meditation 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…

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VIDEO: Meditation You Can Do All Day

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell describes one little meditation that people can do all day. Watch or read the interview below. I’m just going to show you how to do one sort of short meditation that you can do anywhere. And what you can do is you can go sit in a room, just find a spot, close your eyes, put one hand on your chest and the other on your belly, close your eyes and you just be with your…

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VIDEO: Formal Sitting Meditation Practice

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell describes, in detail, formal sitting meditation practice. Watch or read the interview below. First the notion is that it really matters sort of how we sit and what our posture is and as we sit in the chair is how we are in life. So we want to have our backs really straight, our chest open, our shoulders back and they say that our spine is like a stack of golden coin…

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The Importance of Choosing Your Thoughts

…lives meaning and direction without falling victim to the inner critic that holds us back and keeps us from achieving our goals. Learn more about Dr. Lisa Firestone’s latest book, The Self under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation…

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VIDEO: Reap the Benefits of Mindful Living

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell talks about quick and simple ways to reap the benefits of mindful living. Watch or read the interview below. What you can do in the morning before you jump out of bed at hearing your alarm is you can lie there with your eyes closed and you can put your hand on your chest and your belly and you can just be with the rising and falling of your breath for just a few mom…

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Relationship Skills

…lfillment from sharing our lives with someone we love? I’ve asked Dr. Lisa Firestone, psychologist and author of Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships to help answer this question. What Relationship Skills Lead to Lasting Love? Non-defensiveness – Being open to feedback is one of the greatest relationship skills you can offer to your partner, and it is a great asset to any relationship. Instead of instinctively defending against any criticism or…

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Effective Ways to Fight Depression

…critical inner voice.” Learning how to identify the self-destructive thoughts of this inner critic and learning how to take actions in our own self interest, is the beginning of challenging the roots of depression. In this Webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone addresses ways we can identify and deal effectively with the negative thinking that leads to the destructive spiral of depression and hopelessness. Exercises for identifying and challenging these crit…

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