The internet is saturated with content about mindfulness. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more widely discussed phenomenon in a wider array of different spaces — from business to technology to mom-blogs to the world of sports. The buzz about mindfulness continues to be loud. There are apps, journals, classes, books, podcasts, and so on.… Read More »What I Do When Meditation and Mindfulness Practice is Too Much
Taking a tried and true method of relaxation and turning it on its head Photo by David Brooke Martin on Unsplash There’s been a boom in recent years around meditation. People have realized that it’s an excellent practice for mental and physical health. Apps like Calm, Headspace, and 10% Happier have become wildly popular in the past… Read More »How “Reverse Meditation” Tricked my Mind into Being More Productive and Mindful
Even if you don’t sleep enough, have too many demands to juggle, and don’t eat right, doing this activity twice daily can help keep you going Photo by Claudia Barbosa from Pexels Like many working people today, I spread myself pretty thin. I only get 5–6 hours of sleep most days, and work a full-time job, while… Read More »The Nearly Effortless Practice That Reduces Stress and Helps You Feel More Relaxed and Ready Every…
photo credit: Alejandro Alvarez on Unsplash On the project of “personal growth” — what are we trying grow, how do we measure, and what do we do? I once worked with a guy who was in charge of a large amount of people in my organization. I pitched a project to him that had a lot of moving parts,… Read More »Mindful Measurement: How to Measure (and Master) Personal Growth
Photo credit: Samuel Austin on Unsplash On the Humble Purpose and Understated Benefits of Meditation, and How to Do a Minimal Viable Practice Humans have been doing some form of meditation for thousands of years. But it seems like only recently that we’ve started to warm up to the idea that it’s a form of beneficial exercise… Read More »The Real Point of Meditating
credit: Pim Chu on Unsplash How I finally found an absurdly easy form of meditation that hooks you immediately, and that you’ll want to do every day. I first found out about meditation when I was 19. I was a college sophomore who had broken free of the chains of Midwestern white Christianity and ventured into the… Read More »Why I Fell in Love With Vedic Meditation: My Secret Weapon of Well-Being
credit: Stougard Some Thoughts on Why the Small Things We Do are So Valuable Those in the English-speaking Buddhism community have a word that they use to talk about their spiritual habits: “practice”. So when you hear a dharma talk or read something by a Zen Buddhist (and probably a Buddhist in general, come to think… Read More »It’s Just Practice
Between my freshman and sophomore year of college, my first long-term relationship ended. It was the first relationship I was in where the “l” word was exchanged. I wasn’t heart-broken by any means, and neither was she. We both made a half-hearted effort to keep up a long-distance relationship for two semesters, 60 miles apart.… Read More »We Forget to Breathe
