For those who can’t, won’t or don’t meditate
I counsel people to bring mindfulness into daily life. In addition to taking mindful walks, or creating a mindfulness practice that is tied to daily tasks such as folding laundry or doing the dishes, I also offer tips for making sleep and dreams into a mindfulness practice.
Three Ways to Beat Insomnia without Pills or Potions
Take a mindful approach when sleep stealers like stressful thoughts keep you up at night.
Q&A: What Exactly Is a Mindful Approach to Sleep and Dreams?
How to bring mindfulness from the meditation cushion to your mattress in conversation with Tzivia Gover, MFA, CDP Q: You talk about mindfulness and sleep. But let’s start with the basics. Why are so many people …
Transforming holiday card writing from drudgery to joy
Too often during the busy holiday season, the idea of sending out holiday cards is only cozy and quaint in my imagination. Over the years, however, I’ve found ways to make this ritual creative, mindful, and more meaningful.
Lulla-buy! Stuff those stockings with dreamy sleep products
Give the gift of a good night’s sleep With so many people experiencing insomnia that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called it an epidemic, the gift of sleep is the perfect offering …
Where Om’s Meet Z’s: Dreamwork as Meditation
A mindful approach to dreamwork In classical meditation, we sit and observe the contents of our minds without judgment. We notice when thoughts arise, but we don’t engage with them, and we wach as they …
Welcome to My Renovated (Virtual) Home
“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Maybe it was that book I read about Tidying Up that made me finally say Enough! It was high time to clean up not only my apartment, …
Declaring March 4th a Holiday
To honor this day, choose something you are ready to let go of (an old grudge, an outdated belief, an unhelpful attitude) and then on March 4th, declare that you are ready to March Forth into a new chapter of your beautiful life.
Quote Unquote: The Power of a Post
The Butterfly Effect*–Social Media Style The following quote was published in 1973, decades before the advent of Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Its importance has multiplied exponentially since then. “Any word you speak this afternoon will radiate …
Who Says it’s a New Year?
There’s Not Just One New Year’s Day Who says Jan. 1 is the start of the New Year? I’m no historian, but as far as I can make out Jan. 1 was chosen more or …