This year mindful hub will have a special focus on the unique needs of millennial young adults. Check back often to view excerpts from Donna Torney’s forthcoming book, Center Points for Young Adults: Building identity, intimacy, and youthful wisdom through contemplative practices.
Here in the Northeast we are making our way through the first blizzard of 2015. Blizzards can be fun! I spent the day with my kids, making cookies and curry, and teaching our new puppy how to poop in the snow. I am aware however, that snow days can…
Mindfulness can influence goals we set by giving them a more gentle, realistic and achievable tone. Here are some mindfulness influenced tips and ideas for setting goals: Resist letting perception shape your goals: We all have limiting beliefs about ourselves – bad habits of thought based on past failures – It’s…
Learn more about befriending your nervous system by participating in the self-paced, science-based Foundations of Well-Being course taught by Neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson. Click on the box below for details: Anxiety is a dirty rotten Liar. Well, most of the time. If you’re about to rob a bank, or scream at your…
Shyness is painful at any age – and if you experience full-blown social anxiety, it can be devastating taking a toll on relationships, or stalling your education or career. Even simple day-to-day activities, like exercising or eating in public can be difficult for someone with social anxiety. If you suffer…
There are many components of mindfulness that can help if you are ready to change obsessive thoughts or compulsive habits. Whether or not you have a confirmed diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), these habits can be very painful and disruptive. Symptoms of OCD include troublesome repetitive thoughts (obsessions)…
Mindfulness is for everyone, even and especially those struggling with serious addiction. Balance and happiness free from addiction can be cultivated with the right mindfulness exercises and by truly focusing on what is actually needed, rather than on what may have been eroneously learned by a hijacked dopamine system. By figuring out what…
At sundown this evening the Jewish high holiday Rosh Hashanah begins, and marks the beginning of ten days to reflect on the past year. Even though I was raised Catholic, and I’m now a Unitarian/Buddhist/Pagan…. something, I’ve always liked this idea of taking time to reflect. Reflection at its best…
I really did this one day: I picked up our house phone to call my husband at his office and at the same time, with my other hand, using my other ear, picked up my Iphone to check messages. Yup, that really happened. But was I really doing two things at…
“Remembered wellness” is a phrase first coined by Dr. Herbert Benson. It emphasizes the fact that being well is our natural state. This is good news. The body and mind are always seeking wellness and equilibrium. We can easily help our physiology to remember wellness through a twenty-minute mindfulness break. …..In…
What’s a self-care sandwich? It’s two cushiony sessions of self-care, with you in the middle. How do you build such a treat? 1. At the start of your day, take five or ten minutes to breathe, meditate, pray, or otherwise tune into your deepest need. 2. Whether that need is…
What’s a self-care sandwich? It’s two cushiony sessions of self-care, with you in the middle. How do you build such a treat? 1. At the start of your day, take five or ten minutes to breathe, meditate, pray, or otherwise tune into your deepest need. 2. Whether that need is…
