Author: Debie Lee, E-RYT500, Wellness Educator, Dharma Teacher, Holistic Farmer

Sandra Pawula created the following 18 questions to help you capture your life lessons and to confidently move into the new year. This simple practice of year-end reflection and integration is a powerful way to become more aligned with your true self each and every year. You can use these questions as writing or journaling…

New Year’s has always been a favorite holiday of mine. At the start of a new year, it feels like almost anything is possible! It’s a great time to dream about the coming months, and make plans to turn those dreams into reality. But New Year’s isn’t just about the future – it’s also about…

Ditching Detention for Yoga Written By Sasha Jones — 9 min read. At Doull Elementary School, in addition to yoga club, the school uses “reflection yoga” twice a week as a replacement for after-school detention for students who misbehave. In many schools, when kids consistently see their behavior card flipped from green, to yellow, and…

Carving out a little time for yourself… ….to engage in monthly full Moon rituals is a great way to enhance your self-care routine. Try these ideas! Sources: Farmer’s Almanac Written by Natalie LaVolpe Updated: November 19, 2021 There is undeniably a natural rhythm to the universe, whether it’s the seasons or something more cosmic, such…

Source: All Life Extension https://www.lifeextension.com/wellness/sleep-relaxation/what-to-do-when-you-cant-sleep Tossing and turning is an awful feeling… and waking up groggy and grouchy is even worse. So, what can you do when you can’t sleep at night? If you find yourself experiencing sleepless nights more often than not, restless in the middle of the night, settle in and check out…

How to Meditate By Tara Brach You are traveling a path that has led to clarity, peace and deep realization for many people over thousands of years. May their awakening support and inspire you. And may the sincerity of your practice heal and free your spirit. ~ Tara Brach ~ IntroductionWhat is Meditation? Meditation is…

Studies show that mindfulness & yoga can be used to treat disorders like depression and anxiety in youth and found that students who completed mindfulness programs were better equipped to handle challenges in their daily lives. Our lives and the lives of our children and their children depend on this practice especially now, with all…

Regret can be helpful. By Patia Braithwaite If you’re wondering how to let go of regret—and if that’s even a worthwhile goal—trust me, you’re not alone. Especially after a year of such loss and change, it’s tempting to look back and think of all the things you could’ve done differently. Whether your regrets are large—like choosing…

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BODY SCAN: This core mindfulness practice focuses your attention on the physical sensations throughout the body. Through the experience of placing, sustaining and releasing attention on your different body parts, you become better attuned to your body’s wisdom as well as come to know yourself better. A simple way to work on connecting with the physical…

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Here I am teaching about the mind using the glitter jar which represents the mind settling. A glitter jar is one of the most powerful visual metaphors for that connection; it illustrates how mindfulness—the cultivation of stillness in the face of swirling chaos of life—affects us. At first I used to do this practice only…

The obstacles to calm abiding and their antidotes. We need to improve our capacity for clear concentration and like everything it gets better with practice. This article aims to explain the stages of developing concentration and the methods used to accomplish each stage. On the basis of concentration we can develop calm abiding and by…

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These four foundations are the four areas of life to which mindful awareness needs to be applied: body, feelings, mind and objects of mind. In other words, the totality of experience. The four foundations of mindfulness, presented most prominently in the Satipatthana Sutra, is the Buddha’s fundamental teaching on meditation. Common to all Buddhist traditions,…

Vedena Is the second of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Vedena Is translated as “feeling” but is not to be mistaken for the way that word is used in English to mean emotions. Vedena Is the conditioned pleasant, unpleasant or neutral response that occurs with each sense contact at the eye, ear, nose, tongue, feeling…

Sufficient sleep heals our bodies and minds, but for many reasons sleep doesn’t always come easily. Mindfulness practices and habits can help us fall asleep and stay asleep. Consult our guide to find tips for meditation, movement, and mindfulness practices to ease into the best sleep ever. — Read on www.mindful.org/the-ultimate-guide-to-mindfulness-for-sleep/