Category: Mindfulness
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5 Practices for a Longer and Healthier Life
Aging is a natural and inevitable phenomenon, starting at birth and continuing until the moment we die. Due to modern medicine and hygiene standards, lifespans across the globe are longer than ever, but what about our healthspan? Unfortunately, there is a widening discrepancy in this country between healthspan and lifespan; those that live both long…
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Two Important Life Lessons I’ve Learned from My Relationship with Food
There is so much that we can learn from our relationship with food. Whether it be characterized by deprivation, indulgence, guilt, love, fear, anxiety, distraction, companionship, happiness, survival, or a combination of the above, what and how we eat provides us with a window into our tendencies and habits, and perhaps even the imbalances in…
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How Yoga Made Me Believe in Myself
I write a lot about yoga as a lifestyle…so much more than a series of physical postures, yoga, when practiced consistently, will open your mind up to a belief system that is not limited by social norms and thoughts of “not enough”. At the heart of the yogic paradigm is self-realization, a process that involves…
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What’s On Your Gratitude List?
During this time of Thanksgiving, we are reminded to be thankful. As I reflected this morning on all of the things that I am thankful for (see my list at the bottom of this page), an air of fulfillment washed over me. Suddenly, all of the items on my “to do” list drifted away, as…
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Meditation is Therapy
Meditation can change the course of your day by shifting your mindset. A diligent meditation practice can change the course of your entire life…I know because it has mine. When I am meditating daily, I am more connected to my true self, my life purpose, and my abundance. I am happier and more in control…
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How Do You Eat?
The way we eat is equally important as what we eat. When we are fully present for what and how we’re eating, we can derive more sustained pleasure from the eating experience, and our tendency to overeat or eat foods that do not serve us is reduced. Additionally, if we are stressed, tense, anxious and unaware when…
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Yoga Has Made it Mainstream…But, What Exactly is Yoga?
In my experience as a yoga practitioner, teacher and advocate, I have noticed that, like many things, yoga can be largely misunderstood. It is no doubt that yoga has hit the mainstream, pervading popular culture in practice, commercials, TV shows, movies and conversation. I am all for this—the more people that are exposed to yoga…
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How to Be More Mindful
To follow-up on my last post about the benefits of mindful living, I wanted to offer you some simple awareness practices to bring mindfulness into your day: 1. Write Upon waking, rather than lying in bed and letting anxious thoughts about the day ahead fester, get up and sit at a desk or another comfortable…
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How Can a Mindful Life Benefit You?
Mindfulness can be described as a state of present-moment awareness in which we exist as the conscious observer of our thoughts and sensory experiences. Mindfulness is paramount to any Yoga practice and is a valuable skill to carry into life off the mat. So, why bring mindfulness into your daily life? ~Being mindful fosters acceptance~ When we…
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Yoga as a Lifestyle
After spending only one month studying Yoga in India, the birthplace of this ancient tradition, I came to understand it very differently than my western conditioned mind originally had. I came to see yoga not as a practice, but as a lifestyle, and upon becoming re-immersed in western culture the pervasiveness of this divergence in…