by Nikolina Eisinger It’s getting harder and harder to pump the breaks of our busy lives. Silence is hard to find these days. We are constantly over-stimulated and/or distracted. In almost any given second, someone or something requires our attention. We are connected with our families, friends, bosses and the rest of the world 24/7 […]
How Training My Dog Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Mindfulness
Posted on August 31, 2020 //
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 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 […]
Control And Mindfulness
Posted on January 23, 2020 //
by Lawrence Van Rensburg Control – probably all of us get a bit obsessed over it at some point in our lives. The more of it we can get, the better our lives will be. At least, that is what we tell ourselves. It is one of those “if only I could get this one […]
How Mindfulness Saved My Life
Posted on November 13, 2019 //
by Hillary Goldthwait-Fowles Life is filled with choices. One choice can send you down a road that is filled with joy, love, and laughter. One choice can send you down a road filled with addiction, shame, blame, and guilt. One choice can keep you in the prison of unawareness. One choice can liberate you to […]
What Running Taught Me About Meditation
Posted on October 6, 2019 //
by Annie Mueller It was really my impending birthday that motivated me: the idea of edging closer to 40, still carrying an extra 40 pounds, didn’t sit well. My decision to start running was very much ego-driven, not enlightenment-fuelled. I found a simple program for beginning runners that promised to have me running an hour […]
Into the Open: Teaching Meditation By Example
Posted on July 15, 2019 //
by Jake Kessler I have meditated for over half my life (I know, I know, not particularly impressive at 33…). It did not always look like meditation, and I did not always refer to it as such, but the driving need to introspectively understand my universe is an ever-present presence, a benevolent spectre in my […]
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 […]