While I’m in my five senses they send me spinning all sounds and silences, all shape and colour as thread for that weaver, whose web within me growing follow...

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that that they are worthwhile. Fred Rogers When we look back upon our own...

"When I started the classes, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was so stressed that I would get any help… I really feel that I am more calm, happier, more ...

It's that time of year again! Soon the leaves will be falling, and the days will get colder, shorter and darker. For many of us, it's a favourite time of yea...

First, let's look at what stress is and where it comes from: everyday things like traffic noise, or rare events like illness or divorce (called stressors). S...

Ah!  Summer… it’s finally here. And it feels so good. Summer has always symbolized “freedom” from schedules for me. But summer can also get very busy, very f...

Research has shown, and is continuing to show, the healing and restorative power of nature. Studies have found that spending time in nature can, amongst othe...

When you teach kids … how to recognize their feelings, understand where they come from and learn how to deal with them, you teach them the most essential ski...

As we learned in Part 1, "Mindfulness Classes for 6 to 8-Year-Olds: Tips for Getting Started," we can cultivate in our children present-moment awareness (min...

I'm currently teaching mindfulness to children aged 6 to 8, and find that teaching mindfulness to young kids is so rewarding because they teach me as much as...

Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly. philosopher, neuroscientist and educator...

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou, American Poet Psychoana...

Mindfulness can improve the quality of attention, manage situations that cause stress instead of reacting in an automatic way. Mindfulness is a mindful state...

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that something deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch....

Teachers teach many things that are therapeutic. They are managing children's behavior all day long, but that doesn't make them therapists, that makes them g...

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond winning. Lao Tzu The reality of man...

When it comes to chronic pain, the key is learning to live with it rather than vainly trying to avoid or eradicate it, Christiane Wolf, M.D, April 2015 issue...

Peace begins with us… Mindfulness is the basis for wise action. When we can see clearly what is happening in the moment, wisdom can direct our choices and ac...

Sometimes I look on my life and think, "How did I get here? Did everyone else get a life instructions book, and I missed the call? Who could I have been if o...

One of my all-time favourite books is Thoreau's Walden. Decades ago, when I first read the book, something he wrote (well, a lot of things he wrote) struck a...