This article explores pain management with mindfulness including an exercise in sensation surfing for pain management to help anyone in need. I’ve also included an account of my own experience using this exercise in the midst of a kidney stone attack. Read More
Pain Management with Mindfulness… while passing a kidney stone!
Tagged excercise, management, Meditation, Meditation Benefits, Mindfulness, pain, practice
Centre for Mindfulness conference at University of Massachusetts
The Centre for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts is the birthplace of much of what the West knows about Mindfulness, through their groundbreaking innovation of the MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) program and leading research in contemplative science in medicine, healthcare and society. Read More
Tagged Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness, UMass
Contemplative Photography Toronto
This June 12th, 2011 we held a contemplative photography training session at High Park in Toronto. This beautiful Sunday session started off with a mindful walk through the park, a talk about the fundamental elements of experiencing a mindful state in the midst of photography and a few hours of exploring the immense beauty found within the many moments of our day. Read More
Tagged creativity, Mindfulness
How to deal with Dark Emotions
Within the “Full Catastrophe” that is life we all go through ups and downs – this is a reality that we must accept though at times it is very hard to.
This article provides a step by step process on how to deal with dark emotions – fully accepting the emotions that you are feeling and using them as a transforming agent in personal growth. Read More
Tagged emotional intelligence, Stress
How to Stimulate Creativity & Insight
What to do when you’ve come to a halt in creativity and insight in your personal life or career? This question is regularly on the minds of many, even one of the most creative companies in the world – Walt Disney. By exploring the steps they took to overcome this hurdle along with novel approaches of self-reflection and journaling you’ll be soon well on your way with creative juices flowing. Read More
Busy? 5 Ways to make Time for Meditation
You are Crazy busy. You get a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you see your to-do list. There’s no way you can possibly get everything done to everyone’s satisfaction. And where on that list does it say to take time for yourself? As if you had time for that! Read More
Tagged Beginner, Corporate Training
How to Become a Level 5 Leader
It takes a special kind of leader to take an orginization, company or government from being good to a state of greatness. These Leaders are called Level 5 leaders illustrated in the book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t
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Meditation treats pain better than Morphine
Even very brief instruction in meditation appears to help people cope with pain, and a newly published brain imaging study may explain why.
After just four, 20-minute instructional sessions in mindfulness meditation, most participants in the small study experienced big reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness when subjected to painful stimuli. Read More
Tagged Meditation Benefits
Meditation Improves Meetings
The impact of a study that 10 minutes of meditation prior to a meeting significantly improves its outcome, is changing the way many companies in Japan do business. Read More
Meditation found to increase brain size
By William J. Cromie
Harvard News Office- Harvard University Gazette
Harvard News Office- Harvard University Gazette
People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t.
Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Read More
Tagged Mental Health, Neuroplasticity
