It just came to me that I spend my days teaching people how to be kinder to themselves, and that this kindness is designed to manifest itself in three major spheres: 1) eating patterns, 2) activity patterns, and 3) rest & relaxation patterns. It’s all about being kind to yourself, about nourishing your heart and soul with better food, more movement, and quality rest. It will be so good for you. Continue reading
Category Archives: Mindfulness
What Makes You Tick?
What makes you grateful to feel your feet hit the ground every morning? What gets you up and out? Here are some of the things that inspire my work and keep me rockin’ and rollin’: Continue reading
Your Health is in You
We all could take better care of ourselves. There are any number of reasons but, ultimately, it’s always because we don’t have time. Or at least that’s what we say. Time, the ultimate resource, is limited. You can’t make any more than you get, and you get just twenty-four hours a day, the same as everyone. Continue reading
#Mindfulness in the Moment
I’ve been compiling examples of mindfulness. Some of these are mine, some are from friends (Slow Breath Soft Heart), some from family. One is a gift from our beloved 12-year-old chocolate labrador retriever, though truthfully it was more a demonstration.
Being present. Continue reading
#Mindful Being
A few words today encouraging you to be mindful, to be kind to yourself, to help yourself to remain centered, especially in the spinning vortex of ceaseless activity that will characterize the coming weeks of nonstop celebration. Continue reading
Thoughts on mind and body…
Many of us, particularly those of us from Western cultures, are in the habit of considering the mind and body as entities separate one from the other. Sir Ken Robinson, for example, in one of the most widely watched TED talks, describes an academic as an individual who employs the body to move their head from one meeting to another. In a less amusing example, this from medicine, mental illness is considered different, somehow, from physical illness, and the many aspects of care, coverage and chronicity reflect this. Has Descartes’s mind-body dichotomy outlived its usefulness? Continue reading
Discipline Is Remembering What You Want
In the weeks prior to starting medical school, my brother-in-law gave me a small card with a calligraphed message: Discipline is remembering what you want. I soon affixed it to the wall of my new study carrel where it remained until, years later, I passed it along to a friend who needed it more than I.
Discipline is remembering what you want. What do you want? What do I want? Continue reading