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Applied Insights for Mindful Living
Helpful tips, stories, and research on applying mindfulness to your relationships, career, health and spiritual practice
Recent Posts
How do Meditation and Gratitude Go Together?
If you’re feeling stuck, gratitude paired with mindfulness may help you see the silver lining and move through life’s challenges.
3 Simple Exercises to Strengthen Mental Fitness
Until we learn how to listen to our own internal dialogue without judgment, how will we ever truly know ourselves?
How to Be Burma: Three Steps to Integrate Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a moment of awakening. In that moment of awareness we have the agency to choose how we respond to our feelings, thoughts and ultimately choose who we want to be.
5 Benefits of Meditation Retreat by a Former Monk
Retreat is an incredibly powerful opportunity to gain a sense of connection with ourselves, and with the people and living things around us.
Kindness: the biggest motivator for our health
The myth that self-criticism motivates us to reach our goals or keep our promises to ourselves is the most untrue when it comes to our health.
Being Mindful of My Microbiome Healed My Digestive Problems
“When we tune into the wisdom of our body through mindful, intuitive eating our health and mood can completely transform.”
Why Mindfulness Is Essential to Creativity
Creativity is an essential element in our human journey of self-inquiry and insight and goes hand in hand with mindfulness.
Why I Left The Monastery
In training to be meditators, we are training ourselves to follow a new path toward lasting contentment; no one else can give you the sense of forgiveness, acceptance, and trust that you really need to find within yourself.
Back to School Survival Strategy
For more kids than ever, back to school means back to anxiety, and more of it as we adjust to the new normal.
Why Mindfulness Makes Willpower Obsolete
The greater our understanding of how our own minds and bodies work, the greater our ability to make better decisions about our well-being.
How do Meditation and Gratitude Go Together?
If you’re feeling stuck, gratitude paired with mindfulness may help you see the silver lining and move through life’s challenges.
3 Simple Exercises to Strengthen Mental Fitness
Until we learn how to listen to our own internal dialogue without judgment, how will we ever truly know ourselves?
Why I Left The Monastery
In training to be meditators, we are training ourselves to follow a new path toward lasting contentment; no one else can give you the sense of forgiveness, acceptance, and trust that you really need to find within yourself.
Why Mindfulness Makes Willpower Obsolete
The greater our understanding of how our own minds and bodies work, the greater our ability to make better decisions about our well-being.
I Still Wake Up with Anxiety
What meditation really has to offer is a new response to the natural processes of your body and mind.
Virtues of Being Too Nice
“The more I practiced these in my new life as a monastic, namely, being honest with myself and others by communicating my values through clear and firm boundaries, the better I felt on a daily basis.”
Kindness: the biggest motivator for our health
The myth that self-criticism motivates us to reach our goals or keep our promises to ourselves is the most untrue when it comes to our health.
Being Mindful of My Microbiome Healed My Digestive Problems
“When we tune into the wisdom of our body through mindful, intuitive eating our health and mood can completely transform.”
Why Mindfulness Is Essential to Creativity
Creativity is an essential element in our human journey of self-inquiry and insight and goes hand in hand with mindfulness.
Back to School Survival Strategy
For more kids than ever, back to school means back to anxiety, and more of it as we adjust to the new normal.
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