Some people welcome a new year with clear goals and intentions. I’m coming into 2020 with something even better: confusion, and lots of it. If that doesn’t sound like a …
Are You Ready for Positive Thinking?
A Three-Step Process to Develop Positive Thinking (When You’re Ready For It) “What a horrible summer we had,” a friend pronounced to me recently, and she wasn’t the first. It’s …
Shortcuts to Mindfulness
Whenever I ask people what gets in their way of practising mindful meditation, the answer is most often: “time.” There’s no time to sit on a chair or cushion and …
Can’t sleep? Try the Anti-Ruminator
If there’s something to ruminate about, you can bet I’ll be ruminating about it – often long into the night when I’d rather be fast asleep. Recently, however, I decided …
It’s Okay to be Scrooge
As December approached, my usual dread of Christmas began seeping in like the ominous fog in a scary movie. It has a skin-crawling sensation to it and I’ve imagined myself …
Now That’s What I Call Mindfulness
I’m always looking for ways to talk about mindfulness that suit my understanding of it – and that’s been surprisingly harder than expected. This week, I found the following description …
Daring Awareness
The situation: Like almost everybody I know, my life is hectic and busy and often overwhelming. Work consumes most of my time and even though I don’t have kids, I’m …