mindfulness

Is it possible to live in this world that appears so heartless, with a heart that is open and loving?

Mindfulness doesn’t necessarily change circumstances, rather it changes the way we perceive circumstances. So a mindful life might appear the same on the outside, while on the inside there is greater clarity and expansiveness. That difference may or may not translate into external changes.

When we feel trapped by a situation in life and can’t see beyond a two-dimensional view (good/bad, right/wrong, love/hate) we don’t have a magic button we press to change our view point or zoom in and out — it’s not quite that easy. But we can learn to use tools to widen our perspective. With the help of my teachers I’ve developed these five easy tools that I use to create space around difficult situations in my own life

  Life changes in a split second. Deb got up at 6:30am, went to the bathroom, and on the way back into the bedroom she tripped and fell. “I broke…

Oprah speaks with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn about mindfulness meditation and the benefits it can bring to our everyday lives on an all-new episode of “Super Soul Sunday” airing this Sunday, April 12 at 11a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

What if we are being painted by the artist of time?

Donna Schwenk’s shares her personal story of recovering from diabetes, feeling sick and worn out by making and including cultured foods in her diet. Cultured foods, made through home fermentation, are supercharged with beneficial bacteria to balance your digestive system, and vitamins and minerals to enhance your overall health.

An all-new episode of “Super Soul Sunday,” Sunday March 29 11:00 a.m. ET/PT, Oprah sits down with bestselling author Michael Pollan to discuss how conscious eating along with connecting to the natural world can elevate our spiritual and physical well-being.

Can you resist the siren call of immediate gratification – when it comes to food, love, lust, money, Facebook, texting etc? Chances are if you’re having a problem right now in your life, it’s due to your needing to practice better impulse control. Read on…

I teach with stories. A lot of yoga teachers do. And there are a few stories I have been telling again and again for years. They have always shown themselves to consistently and effectively communicate the intended ideas. One story in particular concerns my ideas regarding Tantric sex.

(trendhunter) I’ve been a green tea addict for some time, but now I’ve expanded my own repetoire of teas. I get list in the aisles… I search when I travel…

Gary Snyder shares how the practice of coordinating the mind and body can develop an inner calmness and greater spiritual awareness – one thatlisten-here is able to shift us from our alarming culture of violence to one of greater compassion, respect and peace

Motivational speaker Steve Gamlin’s crash and burn life’s story became his fuel for rediscovering that the value in life is in showing up aware, generous and kind to others – to find ways to be someone’s hero.

The traditional roles of yoga teacher and student have collapsed under the weight of cultural appropriation, capitalism, and scandal. In the aftermath, yoga teachers often find themselves trapped in a…

I’m a Ram Dass. I do whatever it is I do. I see people, teach, and write my books. I eat, sleep, and travel, get tired and irritable, go to the bathroom, touch, and taste, and think. A continuous stream of events. A flow. I am involved with it all, yet I cling to none of it. It is what it is. No big deal.

Your ride to work. Your time at the grocery store. Checking email. Making dinner. Your call with your mother. Your lunch with your colleagues. Your time in front of the television. Your time at an organization. There are so many places in our lives that we have accepted as bland, dull, tedious, normal – ordinary. Why? A lot of it has to do with our brain.

So how do we embody who we are really and connect with dignity, humanity and humility, both as individuals and as a human race?

No matter how hard we want to, there’s one thing we can never do and that’s change the past. We can weep, beat our fists against the wall, eat bags of cookies to assuage the guilt, but none of this will make the slightest bit of difference and certainly won’t make us feel any better. The past is gone, over, no more.

What if you were able to instantly able to reframe any situation to something more positive, more optimistic, or more opportunity-focused?

The mind is described as being like a monkey bitten by a scorpion and, just as a monkey leaps from branch to branch, so the mind leaps from one thing to another, constantly distracted. Then, when we come to sit still and begin to pay attention, we find all this manic activity going on and it seems insanely noisy. It’s actually nothing new, just that now we’re aware of it whereas before we were immersed in it, unaware that such chatter was so constant.

Have you ever wondered how amazing it is that a water lily doesn’t grow in a pure mountain lake but in murky, muddy and dank pond water thick with weeds, and yet its beautiful flower appears on the surface totally pristine? All life starts in the dark, either in the earth, mud, or in the womb: the darkness contains the nourishment needed for life to emerge.