Mindful Matters

The backbone of Mindfulness rests in its connection to being compassionate to yourself. This radical act of self care allows you to radiate these feelings of safety, joy, and peace to others. Everyone benefits!

This practice by Tara Brach allows you to recognize, accept, investigate and not identify with difficult emotions.

One of the benefits of mindfulness is learning to regulate our emotions. This practice encourages you to stay with difficult feelings with curiosity in a loving accepting way by labeling them.

Recent research shows that positive emotions of appreciation, gratitude and love actually create harmonious heart rhythms. All it takes is 20 seconds to fully experience a heart felt moment ...

We benefit and are soothed by being still and listening to our heart. It is a place of great wisdom and insight ... and it has a brain of its own. Drop in!

We have many thoughts each day, however, 95% of today’s thoughts are reruns of what we were thinking yesterday. It may be time to write some new songs.

This practice allows you to watch thoughts once the body is relaxed, much the same way a cat watches for a mouse ... with full attention.

We’ll be working with the thinking mind and learn techniques to slow it down and not get caught up in its false narratives.

This intention of this meditation is drop down deeply into your core, especially when there is turbulence around you or within you. It helps you find refuge amidst a storm.

This meditation uses the metaphor of a pebble being dropped into a serene lake. Pose a question and drop the pebble .... pay attention to what insight comes up.

The healing qualities of nature are profound and well documented. These elements and qualities are within us also. Connecting to them enhances our body’s senses allowing for a deeper moment to moment awareness.

This breathing technique has been used for millenniums as a way to restore balance to the brains two hemispheres.

The breath anchors you to the present moment. This orderly patterned breathing gives the mind something to count and all the while we’re breathing into a state of calm.

Mindfulness employs many meditations that connect the mind/body to the heart. The breath centers this practice.

Mindfulness encourages us to abide in the stillness of being. Yet, our culture values constant doing. Can we just learn to be and have that be enough?

Mindfulness cultivates the attribute of patience. A serene mountain evokes an image that can be brought to mind during times of uncertainty and strife. It’s unmoving presence offers a reassurance.

Life is full of possibilities. You can navigate through it all with trust or skepticism ... mindfulness helps you cultivate trustworthiness.

Being open minded and full of wonder for the present moment is foundational for practicing mindfulness.

One of the attributes of Mindfulness is to cultivate being less judgmental. This practice helps by bringing awareness to our opinions and allowing an opportunity to reframe a situation.

This meditation is a four part mini practice that deconstructs the definition of mindfulness. Exploring each aspect of the definition, as a meditation, gives insight into being mindful.

The lotus is an inspirational metaphor for beauty that triumphs over life’s hardships. This practice will help motivate you to find that beauty in all things.

This talk explains the seven guiding principles of Mindfulness. They call for a new mindset that would be particularly helpful at this junction of our human history.

A quick reset technique to bring awareness to your inner experience, gather the breath and expand into new possibilities.

This meditation focuses on sending the body messages of loving kindness and acceptance.

Often times we take our body for granted. This meditation allows us to view our bodies from a different perspective ... one of awe.

Imagine holding a ball that breathes along with you ... expanding on the inhalation and contracting on the exhalation. This tool keeps you centered on the breath.

This technique is a quick way to reset a stressful moment. It can be used anywhere at anytime ... simply stop, take a deep breath, observe objectively and proceed mindfully.

Using our senses puts us in touch with the body in real time ... that’s where the body lives, in the present moment. Coupling this with a practice of Gratitude has great benefit to the immune system.

This technique helps when difficult emotions are triggered and you feel overwhelmed. Recognizing, allowing, investigating and non identifying with these emotions can help you at anytime.

Mindfulness has many aspects that provide help in times of crisis. This meditation points to just a few ways we can incorporate practicality and compassion into our daily life.

This practice helps grow compassion for ourselves and others.

Often times, we are faced with projects or tasks that just never get started or finished. Procrastination is a common hindrance. In this meditation, we look at ways to use mindfulness to give us insight and some tools to get the job done.

This meditation helps you release and let go of difficult emotions. By staying in full awareness, you are able to recognize their emergence and not be carried away by them.