Step Out of Your Worries and Into Your Life
“That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.” – Chinese Proverb Worry can be useful when it is experienced in the form of eustress, motivating you to take important actions or solve problems in your life.…
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Early Maladaptive Schemas: Understand Your Patterns
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.” – Anaïs Nin Have you ever wondered why you may repeat unhealthy, yet familiar, patterns in relationships with others or why you have…
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Help Your Child Manage Stress: Warning Signs & Strategies
“A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” – Seneca Just as we, as adults, experience stress and emotional tension from both internal and external experiences, so do children. The content of children’s worries may look a bit different from ours, but those worries are often rooted in…
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Use Mindfulness to Manage ADHD
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.” – Alexander Graham Bell Upon initial consideration, it may appear that using mindfulness to address the symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) would be a frustrating, if not useless, enterprise. The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…
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Use Mindfulness to Get More Alert, Creative & Productive
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw We all experience difficult emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations that can act as powerful deterrents to performing at our optimal levels of alertness, creativity, and productivity. There is little use trying to…
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6 Surprising Benefits of Getting Angry
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” – Aristotle Many of us have a tendency…
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Mood-Dependent Behavior vs. Strategic Behavior
“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the trickiest behaviors to overcome or change…
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Stress Impacts Mindful Decision Making
“Stress is like spice – in the right proportion it enhances the flavor of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal; too much may choke you.” – Donald Tubesing Do you ever find that the way that you tend to make decisions is different when you are feeling particularly stressed? Many people have…
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10 Ways to Improve Body Image
“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.” – Aesop The way that you see yourself when you look into the mirror and the way that you feel about your body when you put on your clothes can be potentially sensitive topics for many people. Even people who feel comfortable within their own skin…
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3 Mindfulness Exercises to Soothe an Anxious Mind
“I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.” – Edith Armstrong Sometimes anxiety enters our experience in the positive and motivating form of eustress, whereas…
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