For years I’ve debated with myself about what the most effective and direct approach is to bringing the present moment experience into my...

Let’s explore attention as it relates to mindfulness and stress by starting with a baseline definition: “Attention is the behavioral and...

I’ve been asked many times if there is an ideal place to practice formal mindfulness meditation. Like so many of my answers I tend to say...

We live in a culture of achievement so naturally we are all curious about how to achieve mindfulness. For many years I believed that...

Over the past two to three years as mindfulness becomes more commercialized I’ve been noticing more and more claims for short cuts to the...

There’s a tendency to make mindfulness practice more complicated than it is. There’s a lot of reasons for this. Two that come to mind are...

Mindfulness is able to address so many different issues that it is difficult to mention them all in a short blog. The general categories...

There are now well over 2000 studies that attest to the efficacy of mindfulness. The studies cover the fields of physical, mental and...

We humans are called creatures of habit so it would make sense to explore how we can utilize our natural tendencies to create the...

Over the years one of the primary reasons people have come to my classes has been to address what is commonly known as monkey mind or...

It seems like mindfulness is being applied to almost every sector of society. That, of course is a good thing. One sector that has me...

So much of the way we deal with our issues is geared towards figuring out something that happened in the past. We can spend years delving...

There are many theories about what makes a leader. Leadership is described in Wikipedia as “a process of social influence in which a...

With so much attention being paid to happiness and positive psychology lately one has to wonder why mindfulness emphasizes the importance...

Have you ever asked yourself why something as prevalent as change creates so much stress? If you read the various studies on stress you...

When beginning to practice mindfulness there is an issue that comes up repeatedly. When I teach the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction...

This past week I gave a mindfulness presentation to a group of primary care physicians. During the question and answer portion of the...

Mayo Clinic defines PTSD as: “Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event —...

Let’s change the pace for this new blog. Many people have asked about the ingredients that I use for making my mindful juice. It’s...

In the past 2 or 3 years mindfulness has become a household word and many people ask me what it takes to learn it. There are many...