Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment and provides the type of balanced awareness that forms the foundation of self-compassion. Like a clear, stil...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

In my late 20's I had a supervisor who used to say: "If my head wasn't attached to my shoulders, I'd even forget it!" I used to think, "What an odd thing to ...

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 upheaval as they nav...

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...

From the perspective of mindfulness, nothing needs fixing. Nothing needs to be forced to stop, or change, or go away. Jon Kabat-Zinn, in his book, The Mindfu...