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In this meditation, we'll practice cultivating mindfulness by paying attention to various sensory experiences.

Take 5: A Simple Mindfulness Exercise

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In the journey of mindfulness and personal growth, a significant part of our challenge lies in how we engage with our emotions, particularly the unpleasant ones. Dr. Russ Harris, a renowned author, presents an enlightening metaphor to understand this interaction – the 'struggle switch'. This concept offers a transformative way to handle life's inevitable discomforts and challenges.

Healing Insecurities: A Mindful Approach

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Unwind and relax with the soft clouds as they roll over the Italian Dolomite Mountains. Blended with a handful of mindfulness-based techniques designed to help you unwind and return to the present moment.

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Mindfulness doesn’t just happen on a meditation cushion or when you’re feeling particularly Zen. It’s a quality that we can cultivate, moment-to-moment, in every area of our lives.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

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In our mindfulness journey, we often explore various concepts that can enrich our understanding of life and purpose. Today, we delve into a profound and inspiring concept from Japanese culture known as 'ikigai.' This term, which translates to 'a reason for being,' refers to the unique source of value in one’s life, the very essence that energizes and motivates us each day.

Ikigai: Discovering Your Unique Reason for Being

Discovering Your Unique Reason for Being

The Art of Turning Off Your 'Struggle Switch'

Insecurities, a common yet often unspoken thread in the tapestry of human life, are not a solitary struggle but a shared experience that binds us in our collective humanity. These hidden vulnerabilities, though they may seem unique to us in our moments of doubt, are in fact a universal condition, touching the lives of each one of us at various points.

What is Mindful Walking?

This meditation is a practice to attune you to your senses and the sensory world you live in. It is a way to invite connection between our inner and outer worlds

Sensory Awareness

9 Benefits of Walking Mindfully

When to Practice Mindful Walking

In this meditation we cultivate gratitude—a quality of awareness that allows us to appreciate what’s happening at the present moment.  

Open Awareness

How to Walk Mindfully in Daily Life

A simple and universal practice for developing embodied awareness. You can do this walking meditation no matter where you are.

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Mindful Walking vs. Walking Meditation

Live a Mindful Life

Mindfulness is better with friends

The Foundations of Mindfulness

Adding mindfulness to the everyday activity of walking makes for a natural combination that offers cognitive, emotional, and physical benefits above and beyond what either activity provides alone. 

Mindful Walking: Stay Grounded by Walking Mindfully 

Is Mindfulness Different from Meditation?

How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners

What Exactly is Mindfulness?

With this self-awareness, you’re able respond appropriately to the present moment instead of simply reacting with emotion fueled by your past experience.

Mindfulness Can Improve Your Mental Health

Mindfulness Can Help You Change Unwanted Habits

Bring the mindfulness and self-compassion to a challenging part of our life, and particularly, to places of self-judgment or feelings of failure. 

RAIN for Self-Love

Mindfulness Can Help You at Work

Mindfulness Helps in the Classroom

In this meditation, we will practice strategies to help us feel less nervous and more calm.

Feeling Nervous

Mindfulness Keeps Athletes Focused and Less Stressed

How Mindfulness Changes the Brain

By witnessing our thoughts and feelings instead of automatically reacting to them, we disengage from our mental narrative and instead lightly hold our attention on the wider, quieter space beyond the thinking mind.

How to Meditate

How to Practice Mindfulness

In this meditation, we practice resting in awareness. Instead of focusing on anything in particular, we observe it all coming and going.

Choiceless Awareness

In this meditation, we'll explore how to use mindful awareness to reground ourselves when we're caught up in thoughts, anxiety, or chaos.

STOP: A Technique to Re-Ground

In this meditation, we'll practice listening to understand, rather than listening to respond.

Become a Better Listener

Learn how to settle your attention, without strain, to cultivate a calm mind.

Calm Focus

The benefits of mindfulness go far beyond reducing stress. Mindfulness can help you sleep better, improve your focus, feel more confident, and be more forgiving toward yourself and others.

Benefits of Mindfulness: Mindful Living Can Change Your Life

In our continuous quest for a fulfilling life, many of us adeptly navigate the complex tapestry of human experiences, seeking safety, comfort, and a semblance of happiness. We strategically place the building blocks of our existence—finding partners, choosing places to live, pursuing education or careers—setting up a foundation that appears to fulfill our needs. This pursuit, while crucial, often stems from a desire for security rather than a true alignment with our deepest passions and aspirations.

Embracing the Life You Love: Moving Beyond Comfort to Find True Fulfillment

Moving Beyond Comfort to Find True Fulfillment

In the journey of mindfulness, encountering triggers is an inevitable part of life. These moments can often lead to reactive responses, stress, and a sense of being overwhelmed. However, there is a simple yet powerful mindfulness practice that can help us navigate these moments with grace and awareness: the STOP method, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This method is not just a technique but a pathway to fostering deeper connection, peace, and ease in our lives.

Navigating Life's Triggers: The STOP Method for Mindful Living

The STOP Method for Mindful Living

In our journey of mindfulness and meditation, we often encounter a seemingly mundane yet profound obstacle: boredom. It's an experience that, at first glance, might appear as a hurdle to our practice, but upon closer inspection, reveals itself as a gateway to deeper understanding and fulfillment. This exploration into the nature of boredom is not just an exercise in patience but a crucial step in our path to a more present, aware, and ultimately fulfilling life.

Beyond Boredom: Embracing Stillness in a world of constant stimulation

Embracing Stillness in a world of constant stimulation

What is Negative Thinking?

In this meditation, we will explore how to work with negative and difficult thoughts.

Helping With Negative Thoughts

Where Do Negative Thoughts Come From?

What Are Different Types of Negative Thoughts?

How Can We Overcome Negative Thinking?

A simple breathing meditation to help bring more balance, calm and concentration to the mind. 

The Basics of Mindfulness

In this meditation, we'll explore how to step back from our thoughts, give them space, and find greater peace.

Freedom From Thoughts

In this meditation, we will practice awakening our compassion for ourselves and for others, transforming suffering into peace and nourishment.

Tonglen Meditation

A positive psychology technique to combat the negativity bias.

"Hunt the Good" Technique

Take it one day at a time—and get extra help if you need it

It takes time to overcome negative thoughts, but these 4 helpful techniques can help train your brain to interrupt cycles of negative thinking.

4 Steps to Overcome Negative Thoughts

What is Mindfulness?

In this meditation, we'll explore a different way to be in relationship to the meditation process, one that is more accepting, easy, and wise.

Awareness Is Meditating

What are the Benefits of Practicing Mindfulness?

Is Mindfulness the Same as Meditation?

All of these moments of simply noticing what’s there are considered mindfulness.

Why is Being Present So Important?

Even in the midst of difficulty, life is full of exquisite moments.

A meditation to remind us that awareness is our true home. Sometimes we get lost in seeking, striving or rushing—but awareness is always here for us. 

The Power of Being Present

Who Should Practice Mindfulness?

In this talk and meditation, we'll explore why attunement is one of the most important parenting skills.

Becoming an Attuned Parent

What is Mindfulness Meditation?

A technique to not be enslaved to your phone.

"Stop, Drop, & Be" Phone Technique

A grounding technique to use when you feel overwhelmed.

5-Sense Grounding Technique

5 Ways to Bring Mindfulness into Your Day

Join Melli and Susan as they explore the theory and practice of mindful eating and the five simple steps to support this in daily life. 

How to Practice Mindful Eating 

A "cognitive hack" to help you drop back into the present moment.

"What If" to "What is" Technique

Mindfulness at Work

Mindfulness and Mental Health

Explore how to clear your mind, cultivate focus and flow not only in your meditation but in your daily life too. 

Focus and Flow

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The ability to be more mindful is something we all possess and can make stronger at any time. It just takes practice. Read on to learn how.

Why Do We Procrastinate?

What Are the Risks of Procrastination?

8 Ways to Help Overcome Procrastination

Learn how the technique of mental noting unwinds anxiety, reduces our reactivity and anchors us in our calm center.

Mindfulness With Mental Noting

Take some time to connect with your calm centre and set your intention for the day. 

Morning Intention Setting

Find calm during the day, or drift more easily into sleep at night.

Relieve Anxiety / Improve Sleep

In this interview, Rich shares practical and powerful tips to be less stressed and more mindful and happy at work. 

How to Bring Mindfulness Into Your Work 

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Distracted by Distractions

A four-step meditation to help you work with strong or difficult emotions. Learn to meet your distress with wisdom, compassion and awareness.

Four Steps to Work Through Difficult Emotions

Here’s a short practice you can weave into your day to step into that space between stimulus and response.    

STOP for Self-Compassion

When procrastination is your default mode, it can have serious implications for your ability to thrive in life. Mindfulness can counter the underlying impulse to put off what you need to do and help you feel better about yourself as a result.

How to Use Mindfulness to Stop Procrastination

In this meditation, we'll practice rewiring the brain to savor and appreciate more of the "good" moments in our life, and not endlessly ruminate on the "bad "moments.

Negativity Bias

Positive emotions are the lifeline that keeps us afloat so we can courageously face our hardships.

The negativity bias developed as a survival mechanism millions of years ago, but it’s still an active component of the human brain to this day.

Your Brain Wants to Be Negative. Teach it Positivity.

What is Name It to Tame It?

Name It to Tame It

How Does Name It to Tame It Work?

A mindfulness and emotional regulation technique to reduce stress and develop clarity.

"Mental Labeling" Technique

How to Handle Strong Emotions

Learn to be non-reactive and at peace with what is happening inside and around you through the practice of developing equanimity. 

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