mindfulness
Meditation: Better Than Opioids?
Having grown up in a medical family—with a physician father, a teacher for a mother, a stepmother who is a dietician, and an extended family full of nurses, doctors, philosophers and community leaders—it’s no surprise I feel drawn to explore the many facets of well-being. Drugs were never the first solution to curing ailments in…
Read MoreHow to Boost Sales with Mindfulness
While I’ve taught meditation in a wide array or environments, my specialty is in corporate mindfulness—I bring “bliss to the boardroom”, making it easy for busy executives, managers, and leadership to experience the multifold benefits. One of the most common questions I’m asked is how, exactly, mindfulness meditation helps improve business? The short answer is…
Read MoreHow to Boost Self Control (And Why It Matters)
Have you ever tried to meditate and wondered why your thoughts and desires are so hard to control? It happens to the best of us, and it’s not some kind of critical failing on our part, though often people take it that way. It’s just science, folks! That difficulty with self-control is all due to…
Read MoreMeditation: Real or Ridiculous?
With so much information going around about meditation—what it is, what it does, how it works—and an outdated or archaic image that is sometimes quite woowoo and “out there”, how is one to know if it’s real or not? The question was posed to an author in a recent article, and I really liked the…
Read MoreHow Meditation Rewires Your Brain
Mindfulness meditation practices change the brain. Studies by Dr. Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist and physician at Jefferson University Hospital and director of research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, tell us that when in the peak meditative state we connect with greater sensory input. Newberg would know. He studies the relationship between the brain…
Read More3 Easy Steps to Better Willpower
Lately I’ve been thinking about the subject of self-control— what it is, how it works, why ’s SO HARD sometimes. Self-control stirs up all kinds of unwelcome connotations: limitations, restrictions, restrain and refrain. But let’s turn self-control upside down for a moment. What if self-control actually gave us more freedom, not less? Mindfulness meditation is…
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