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...

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

Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment and provides the type of balanced awareness that forms the foundation of...

"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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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