Goals are dreams with a deadline. Do you have both short-term and long-term goals? If you set a few hours aside each week—Sunday evening is my favorite—you can develop goals that you can easily transfer into short to do lists. Each week you could choose one short-term goal and one long-term goal. The trick is [...]
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Learning to relax and enjoy the life you have is made easier by practicing mindfulness. Use the following resources to practice mindfulness: (1) From “Zen” from youmeworks reminds us–”Mindfulness meditation is somewhat different. There is no particular focus. It is a process of paying attention to your ongoing experience, whatever it may be at the [...]
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A Addictions, Afflictions, and Mindfulness: A Psychotherapist’s Journey Attitudinal Healing: Mindfulness in Another Key B Balanced Life: Avoid a Repellent Plotline Be Mindful to Maintain Job Satisfaction Build Your “Self” First Before You Argue With It C Changing Habits With Habit Changer Brief Meditative Exercise Helps Cognition D The Decade That Changed Our Brain Wiring [...]
Mindfulness added to daily meditation helps build a reservoir of positive thoughts that help keep us rooted in the present. In learning to use the mind as an instrument to help promote peace, we will be strengthened to remember the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where [...]
Learning to savor the food we eat can help us to learn a new, reflective experience with our food. Emiliya Zhivotovskaya writes about how her first experience with recovery from her eating habits was to eat one meal in complete silence while learning to savor each bite. She writes: “I went on to use what [...]
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