Practicing Mindfulness of Body
My meditation teacher begins meditation by encouraging us to think “mindfulness of body, mindfulness of breath, mindfulness of mind.” Mindfulness can be defined as “the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly...
9 steps toward improving your well-being
The Better Health Channel, a website funded by the Victorian government in Australia, they describe well-being as “how you feel about yourself and your life. Happily, for those of us who live with significant health challenges, it doesn’t require any particular level...
what makes for mental well-being?
The World Health Organization uses a simple questionnaire to help people assess their own mental well-being: using a scale of “all of the time,” “more than half of the time,” “less than half of the time,” “some of the time,” and “at no time,” participants are asked to...
feel better with “health snacks”
In his book, Feel Better in 5, author Dr. Rangana Chatterjee invites readers to choose a five minute “health snack” from each of three menus: mind, body, and heart. Mind snacks reduce stress and anxiety. Body snacks get your body moving, and heart snacks increase your...
Well-being promises and practices
it’s the time of year many people make resolutions. In the before times, workout centers would be filled with ambitious exercisers… Until about the third week of January. That’s when New Year’s energy petered out. Surely, there must be a more sustainable model. There...Subscribe to the monthly newsletter
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