Mindfulness is a practice individuals and groups can do on a day-to-day basis. It can enable people to change the way they think and feel about their experiences, especially stressful experiences. As a mind-body approach, it can increase one's ability to manage difficult situations and make wise choices. A growing body of evidence has found that when
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“When viewing a person through a lens of expectation, we close ourselves off from being in the moment without judgment - viewing through a lens of appreciation for what is here now will change the whole experience - the lens we put on determines how we see the world - if each one of us changed our lens from expectation to appreciation, we can change the
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Mindfulness is a practice individuals and groups can do on a day-to-day basis. It can enable people to change the way they think and feel about their experiences, especially stressful experiences. As a mind-body approach, it can increase one’s ability to manage difficult situations and make wise choices. A growing body of evidence has found that when
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As the year winds down, the latter half of December is the perfect time to reflect and look back on everything you have experienced, discovered and accomplished during the past 12 months. A yearly review is also a great exercise in mindfulness and conscious living. It’s a way to slow down, reminisce about your favorite moments, make you sure you take the
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Excerpt from 21 Days of Parenting Mindfully: Your Guide to Raising a Conscious Child by Lorrie Jones, p. 108 When we become parents, we bring issues from our past that will influence the way we guide and parent our child. Experiences that have not been fully dealt with or that remain in our memory, on some level, determine to a large extent our behavior
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I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you: I have THREE NEW BOOKS available now on Amazon: 21 Days of Living Mindfully, 21 Days of Parenting Mindfully, and 21 Days of Eating Mindfully (3rd ed with new sections and updated information)! As you make your way through the guidebooks, you are invited to record your daily thoughts, reflections, and
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This post is part of the Empowering the Goddess Within Blog Tour hosted by BraveHealer.com! To read more entries and potentially win a fun prize, visit the tour page HERE, between September 9th and September 19th! They say that when an untrusting horse, after much despair and distress, finally feels safe with a human being, the moment is called “joining
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"Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry." —Lyman Abbott I was 5 years old standing in line for recess. My coat was on, scarf and mittens in place. Suddenly my body hurled forward from the momentum of a tremendous shove from behind. As I crashed into a table and chair, I was momentarily stunned with shock What just happened?
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Mindfulness is a practice individuals and groups can do on a day-to-day basis. It can enable people to change the way they think and feel about their experiences, especially stressful experiences. As a mind-body approach, it can increase one's ability to manage difficult situations and make wise choices. A growing body of evidence has found that when
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; ... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at
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