Meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, notes in Faith, our personal view of things can be like 'Looking at the sky through a straw.' Our...

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...

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...

Ah!  Summer… it’s finally here. And it feels so good. Summer has always symbolized “freedom” from schedules for me. Summer schedules can...

Homeschool mindfulness, for me, is the ability to allow learning to happen in the moment. It’s about letting go of control and trusting...

What you resist - persists. C.G. Jung There are days when I can't seem to get motivated about doing housework — cleaning up, organizing,...

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...

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

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

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

"He started it!" "Did not!" "Did too!" Conflict and conflicting opinions are a part of life, and younger kids may have an exchange...

From around the ages of 12 to 24, adolescents experience an immense amount of growth and maturation. It is a time of stress, change, and...

Kristin Neff, a well-known researcher in mindfulness and psychology makes the following distinction between self-esteem and...

When you drive around the city and come to a red light or a stop sign, you can just sit back and make use of these twenty or thirty...

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of...

On this lovely spring day, imagine a classroom full of (usually) rambunctious 6-year-olds sitting quietly on the floor, eyes closed,...