Playing a musical instrument, texting your partner when you get off work, or eating oatmeal for breakfast. Daily habits drive a significant portion of our day, as they show where our priorities lie. If you’re considering making mindfulness meditation one of your daily habits, then you might already be aware that to truly reap its benefits, a daily(ish) practice of … Read More
The “Why Not?” of Mindfulness in Education
Mindfulness in Education After four months of trying to support my new preschool class into settling into a new routine, I was ready to quit. No matter what I did, from modelling positive responses, to positive reinforcement, to comforting words and embraces when major meltdowns erupted, nothing seemed to work. Since the long-ago start of the academic year, there had … Read More
Mindfulness and Emotions
You meditate. You do yoga. You know to be mindful. And yet… Someone cuts you off on the freeway and you’re a maniac with a middle finger. What on earth is up with that? It’s easy to feel like a spiritual failure when your emotions take you for a ride. Being spiritual does not mean being emotion-less It can be … Read More
5 Ways Mindfulness Will Make You a Better Student
5 Reasons Students should take up meditation and mindfulness If you’re going back to school, you should consider packing mindfulness along with your laptop and books. The positive effects of meditation and mindfulness cannot be ignored – It seems like there’s a new study coming out daily explaining the benefits of mindfulness. One group that doesn’t get enough attention in … Read More
Living Your Life: Finding Yourself in the Chaos
Living Your Life…. Looking around in our society you can see there are billions of people who have their own lives, who have cars, homes, families, and careers. And while you look around you can tell that there are many of those who live the lives they have always wanted, they stomped out the notion of having to follow societies … Read More