Tag Archive for: wellbeing

The Joy of Mindfulness

Joy is a delightful surprise visitor that we can learn to roll out the welcome mat for and invite to stay longer through a dedicated mindfulness practice.
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Why Mindfulness is Important in the Midwest

The US Midwest possesses unique gifts, resources, and vulnerabilities that impact the rest of the country and ripple out into the world. Mindfulness may help us relate to them more skillfully, to everyone's benefit.

Mindfulness Cultivates Foundational Skills for Wellbeing

A consistent practice of mindfulness helps cultivate many of the fundamental skills and inner determinants of wellbeing, while countering harmful conditioning and unskillful habits.

Mindfulness and Determinants of Wellbeing

A consistent practice of mindfulness cultivates many of the inner determinants of wellbeing, resourcing us for the outer work of collective contribution toward human flourishing within a thriving world.

Is Mindfulness Christian?

Mindfulness and the foundational determinants of wellbeing it supports, such as emotional regulation, attentional control, and resilience is an attitude, a practice, a state, a trait, or a way of living that doesn't belong to any religion, but to humanity as a whole.

Mindfulness and Immune Response

More and more research is emerging indicating mindfulness is correlated with a healthy immune response - something worth paying attention to in the time of pandemic.
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Mindfulness and Spirituality

Is mindfulness a spiritual practice? It depends on your definition of both mindfulness and spirituality. The answer may be both yes and no...

Self-Care as Responsibility

Self-care is something we must prioritize and attend to, not only for our own wellbeing, but also for the benefit of those we love. When we practice mindful self-care, we build the patience, trust and confidence needed to sustain compassion for self and others over the long term so we can truly make a difference.

Self-Care or Self-Limitation?

With the start of the new year, many of us are thinking about the ways we will care for ourselves going forward and the healthy practices we'd like to cultivate or maintain. But, how can we know what's truly good for us? Mindfulness can help us be more discerning.

Heading Upstream Together

Heading Upstream Together - the time is now for sustainable solutions and mindfulness is an emerging critical social determinant of health.

Your Compassion Footprint

What is your compassion footprint? Research indicates that cultivating compassion increases our own happiness and wellbeing, and the consequences ripple out far and wide, creating a beneficial cycle.