Tag: Mindfulness

When walking through doorways, pause and take a deep breath. Ask yourself, how you’re feeling and if you’re carrying emotions that don’t belong to that place; Focus on one thing at a time, avoid multi-tasking; Picture your belly like a balloon. Slowly inflate while inhaling through your nose and deflate it while you exhale. Keep your breathing slow and steady.

Mindfulness practice needs both stillness (meditation) and movement (daily awareness). During quiet wakefulness, people resistant to stillness can feel aching in muscles, itch you can’t scratch, unpleasant “tickle that won’t stop”, or even a “crawling” feeling. This is due to a neurological disorder (RLS) or our body's adrenaline factor that can be normalized over time.

If there isn't a sufficient level of suffering, discomfort, dissatisfaction, pain there is a good chance you will not stick with that practice. It could be physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or a combination, but they are the necessary motivative engines that help drive us through the inevitable resistances of practicing and sustaining the practice of mindfulness.

We call Earth our “mother” as it has created and sustains human life and of trillions of organisms on this planet. The first step we can take, to honor and thank Mother Earth, is to start eating mindfully. As per Ayurveda, once you start eating local food as per your dosha and seasons, you become aware and balanced, aligning with nature and surroundings around you.

“The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.” - Robert Valett The human heart has been known...

‘Mindfulness’ has become somewhat of a buzz word of late. Companies including Google and Facebook regularly hold mindfulness sessions for their employees. However mindfulness dates...

Scheduled worry time is a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) technique that we can use to help lessen the anxiety generated from excessive worry. Used...

Simply putting your mind to eating can help boost digestion, metabolism and loose weight. Here are 8 tips to do so. 1. Keep a journal and note down what your eating. 2. Set aside all electronics, just enjoy the food. 3. Keep busy to avoid munching. 4. Avoid any obstacles you may encounter while eating. 5. Chew properly and completely. 6. Sit and eat, don't stand or move. 7. Take deep breaths and savor food. 8. Eat slowly, it helps us stop at the right amount as compared to when gulping.

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional”. Self-hypnosis and mindfulness can help people reduce or eliminate all types of suffering. The many factors that impact the way a person experiences pain include stress, anticipation, arousal, deeply held beliefs, intentions and expectations. A session of strong meditation can help overcome this. Swipe left for more.

Curejoy Expert James Dudley Explains: Meditation has a wide range of implication as a whole, thus different people practice it for different reasons. The term...

You may love the holiday season, but we all know there are some activities; unwrapped gifts, plane-catching, grumpy relatives, burned food and toppled Christmas...

There are many people with health or body issues, despite being in constant touch with exercising, meditation or even yoga for that matter. Diet...

2014 is the year of mindfulness and was featured in Time Magazine. Even though our ancestors of the distant past did just this for...

Stress can kill: I was reading an article recently of an athlete who had a heart attack. He was physically fit with a resting heart rate...

About 20 years ago I met John Wooden, former coach of the UCLA basketball team that won 10 national titles. He explained to me...