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
How to Meditate Without a Master?
Yes it is possible to meditate without a Master…! Sadhguru, one of the most iconic yogic mentors in India of the recent times once compared the role of a guru in one’s practice to the efficiency that of a torchlight. “If I give you a torchlight, it still does not ensure you are going to find home,” he says. The … Read More
How Meditation Stops Rumination
How Meditation Stops Rumination One famous study suggests that people’s mind have this tendency to wander for about 50% of the time. While that seems harmless, the thoughts that occur during such wandering times are often unpleasant and full of worries. We are caught up thinking about what we need to do, what we fail to do, and other things … 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