Let’s Meditate!
In a previous post, Meditation…Just Try It and See What Happens, I shared an article that shows what actually happens to your brain when…
Meditation
The Awe Walk
Today we are exploring another activity that can help to cultivate awe and wonder, the emotion that we take a dive into in Chapter…
A Meditation for Curiosity
The disposition that we are exploring in February is curiosity. It is a disposition that makes us want to investigate, listen, ask questions, and…
A Compassion Meditation
Yesterday we shared Kristen Neff’s Talks at Google on “The Science of Self-Compassion.” In the question and answer period at the end, she mentions…
The Instinct of Compassion and So Much More
Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University. If you are unfamiliar with her work, I highly recommend you soak up…
Understanding Compassion Fatigue
I first heard about the concept of compassion fatigue from the assistant principal at the school I was just hired to teach at. This…
Light a Candle
If you haven’t had a chance to explore The Onward Workbook yet, here is a sampling of one of the activities from this month…
Finding Happiness to Overcome Negativity Bias
Earlier this month we explored Why It’s Hard to Focus on the Bright Spots and looked at the role of our brains’s wiring, more…
Why Is It Hard to Focus on the Bright Spots?
We have shared the research on the benefits of a strengths-based approach and actually we have spent all month on the habit for this…
Finding Our Happiness
Recently, Elena shared this ON Being blog by Sharon Salzberg with me: Happiness Is An Arm of Resilience. As I read it, I kept…