Mindfulness
Resilience: Noticing Everything that is Going More than All Right
As we learned in this interview with James Baraz, we can shift out of feeling stuck or overwhelmed by radically shifting our perspective. Here’s an exercise from Resilience in […]
Mindfulness Helps Cultivate the Perspective “We’ll See”
As we learned in this interview with Susan Kaiser Greenland, practicing a gratitude walk can be very helpful for people of all ages to re-frame difficult emotions or experiences and […]
Why Some People Bounce Back Quickly, Even Heroically
As we learned in this interview with Ron Siegel, steadying our awareness can help us bounce back by moving out of anger and blame and not taking things so […]
What Story Am I Believing Now?
I’ve watched my own opinions shift over time – someone I initially judged to be disastrously self-focused I quickly learned was a single mom raising an autistic son and she […]
Steadying Awareness
We practice steadying our awareness so we can perceive that the events of our lives, and our responses to them, are ever-flowing and ever-changing. The knowledge that “this, too, shall […]
Reflective Intelligence – Clear Seeing, Wise Choices
Reflective Intelligence hones your perceptions and responses to any event, any issue. You can uncover and examine complex patterns of “thinking” that could derail your resilience and rewire them if […]
Noticing What You’re Experiencing While You’re Experiencing It
“Noticing what you’re experiencing while you’re experiencing it” is senior meditation teacher Guy Armstrong’s very useful description of mindfulness, the foundation of the reflective intelligence we’ll explore in this month’s […]
Gratitude Goulash
[apropos of the sustenance offered by gratitude in a time of loss and uncertainty, from Gratitude Goulash that figured prominently in the coping with the mis-adventures of two weeks ago […]
Hope While Rebuilding
[apropos of last week’s Resourcing, Reframing, and Rebuilding post, this poem arrived in my inbox within moments of completing that post. Such synchronicity!] The Gates of Hope Our mission is […]
Gaining Perspective When the World Goes Off-Kilter
Right after 9/11, I got some sage advice from my meditation teacher James Baraz about how to cope with the sudden shock of so much loss and devastation in a […]