by The Mundane Meditator My dog is perfect. Never mind the chewed up shoes. Never mind the constant leash-pulling. She is perfect. Well, except for maybe one pesky habit. My dog barks as if there is an armed intruder at the door every time she hears a knock. Loud and ferocious – as she simultaneously […]
How Training My Dog Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Mindfulness
Posted on August 31, 2020 //
How Mindfulness Saved Me From Myself
Posted on May 18, 2020 //
by Sindy Warren It was a Thursday afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio, circa 2000. I should have been at the law firm where I worked, preparing a legal brief in an age discrimination case. Instead, I was lying in bed feeling like I was about to have a heart attack. I had binged again. I ate […]
The Unexpected Gift: How Meditating Let Me Write Again
Posted on February 14, 2020 //
by Susan Barr-Toman I was trying meditation out of desperation. I’d read that it could calm your thoughts and give you a sense of peace. My goal—to keep it together, to maintain functionality. My husband’s cancer had returned and this time it was terminal. The practice, as I understood it, was to focus on my […]
Shrink Your Stress – Live Smaller
Posted on February 7, 2020 //
What do we really want from life? I’m feeling a little bit fed up of being told (by magazines, adverts and the media, to name a few sources) that what I want should be a ‘big’ life. In this life, I’m told, I would be successful, the best version of myself; I would think big […]
Through Confusion With The Help Of Mindfulness
Posted on September 3, 2019 //
By Jake Kessler “I know, things are getting tougher when I can’t get the top off the bottom of the barrel.” ~ Jesse Michaels No one thought I was going to live to see 20. Including me. In fact, I vividly remember telling my father that it would be miraculous if I saw 25. It […]
Why I Left Finance to Start a Meditation Company
Posted on January 11, 2019 //
by Liam McClintock By most traditional American measures of success I was doing well. Except for one: I wasn’t happy. After graduating from Yale University and securing a sturdy job at a private equity firm in Boston, I faced the reckoning that many college grads seem to get blindsided by. Nothing about the late nights […]
Mindfulness Happens… Even When You Aren’t Trying
Posted on June 4, 2018 //
by Linda A. Curtis When mindfulness reveals an intuitive insight, will you pay attention? I thought that my life was “fine” when it wasn’t. I was in my early thirties, married to a good man, working as a trainer at a bank and living the life of a Jehovah’s Witness. That life involved knocking […]
Mindfulness: My Wake Up Call
Posted on April 18, 2018 //
by Hillary Goldthwait-Fowles Life is filled with moments. There are moments of pure bliss, joy, love, happiness. There are also moments of sadness, despair, anger, resentment, guilt, shame, and blame. Life is very much a yin-yang kind of thing. Sometimes, there is a defining moment in our lives that serves as a wake up call. […]