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Stress, Mindfulness & Meditation

Practicing Self-Compassion

July 25, 2009

It can often be difficult to find compassion for ourselves. Does anyone remember being taught how to do this? Many of us received a few warnings about taking care of ourselves but these included things like dressing warm, not going out in bad weather and the benefits of drinking lots of fluids if you got [...]

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Mindfulness and what it means…

June 28, 2009

Mindfulness is a popular meditation method based on Buddhist principles and developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Mindfulness is a state of compassionate, non-judgmental awareness of the moment. Check out this short video introduction from the master himself. (Click “Read More” to see the video!)

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Help! My Mind Is Racing…

June 3, 2009

Yes, it happens to all of us, even fairly experienced meditators. It’s been happening to me for weeks–I just can’t get my brain to slow down. I have really learned to enjoy a relative calm in my life even when there are storms all around me. But then there are times when it just doesn’t [...]

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Managing Life When You Are Having A Bad Day

May 12, 2009

It’s difficult not to have a bad day every once in awhile. Maybe it starts early–before breakfast. Or something happens, a phone call, a bill, you get sick, you have an argument, it can be anything that triggers its onset. It happened to me today. I felt as if nothing in my life were going right [...]

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More Stress Tips

May 11, 2009

You may have noticed that you can’t seem to go anywhere these days without hearing something about meditation and mindfulness. This can either entice you to try it or as one of my clients recently said, “It’s such a fad”. Meditation is by no stretch of the imagination–a fad but I know what she means. [...]

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Stress and Money

May 6, 2009

They go together don’t they? Most of us are either wondering and worrying about how we are going to make it or worrying how we are going to keep what’s left. Everyone is being affected by the economy. I recently drove down a street that I often do and every other house had a For [...]

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Meditation & Other Stress Reduction Tips

May 5, 2009

First let me tell you that meditation will not calm your brain, dull your back pain, or deliver you to a state of complete nirvana – at least not for a while.

~ Meditation is NOT about turning off your brain.
~ It is NOT about not thinking
~ Or being free of stress.
~Or finding your way to [...]

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Stressed Out?

May 4, 2009

It starts in the morning…your alarm rings and you press the snooze button too many times. Next thing you know you’re late. You rush out of bed, turn on the shower, run downstairs make some coffee,run back up the stairs check the water–and it is still cold. While waiting for the water to warm you [...]

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