Laughter as a Way To Boost Our Resilience
Love this TEDTalk by Daniel Murray. His message is to share his simple philosophy that laughter builds our resilience. Love his view that leaders…
Be Here Now
Using Mindfulness to Understand Emotions
When we think of mindfulness as a way to understand our emotions, we begin to understand the interconnectedness of all the habits and dispositions…
Bringing More Joy Into Your Life
What if we experienced joy more often at school? What might be possible? Might it be possible to have little moments of joy everyday?…
The Power of Mindfulness to Interrupt Implicit Bias
Mindfulness can be a tool that enables us to notice the unconscious bias that we all have and to begin to interrupt it. But…
Boosting Resilience Through Shared Laughter
In Chapter 5 of Onward, Be Here Now, Elena Aguilar shares the disposition of humor: Humor helps you be here now. It yanks you…
A Tree in the Storm
As shared in The Onward Workbook, we can think of strong, uncomfortable emotions as storms that pass us by. When we can imagine ourselves…
A Dive Into Joy: Reading Recommendation
Each month here at Onward as we work on cultivating our resilience, we explore a habit, a disposition, and we take a dive into…
Mindful Emailing
So I think I am writing this post just so that I can read it myself:) I have definitely been known to press send…
Connecting Intentions to Meditation
A couple months ago, we shared the post Give Your Life Meaning: Set Intentions. We talked about how the power of setting intentions can…
Just Breathe
What happens when we focus on our breath? Well first it is a little uncomfortable. As Elena describes in Chapter 5 of Onward, You…