Date archive for 2010
Put your mind in your feet
When you find you are spending time worrying try something new. Direct your mind to your feet. Feel your feet, wiggle your toes. By simply directing your mind to your body and your attention to your feet you pull yourself out of your head. Back to the present is where we have our power. [...]
Time to recharge @ Darden
I have been at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business all week teaching Mindfulness.
The MBA for executive group is ready and open for new ways to relax, increase creativity and connection.
We take time to recharge our cell phones and we need to do the same for ourselves.
Take sometime today to be still, [...]
More Mindfulness on Monday
MONDAY, 15 March 2010 · 12:30 pm, McLeod Auditorium (School of Nursing)
Mindfulness in Medicine and Psychology:
Its Transformative and Healing Potential in Living and in Dying
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Founder,
Stress Reduction Clinic and Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester MA
In this special Medical Center [...]
Mindful Gathering at Old Cabel Hall Friday
Jon Kabot-Zinn will be giving a FREE Public Lecture this Friday Night (March 12) at UVa’ Old Cabel Hall.
Jon is a world- renowned teacher and powerful speaker on the topic of mindfulness. Find out more what our yoga teachers are talking about when they say, ” Let go of the story”.
It should [...]
Eudaimonia
In my University this week we discussed pleasures verses gratifications. Pleasures are fleeting, like eating chocolate. If we eat too often it loses its happy zing. One way to enhance simple pleasures is to spread them out, which keeps them from habituating.
Gratification on the other hand is an activity that [...]
A Joyful Food Revolution
Jamie Oliver will be on a new TV show starting March 26, Friday at 9pm,EST
He will be visiting Huntington, WV, the most unhealthy town in the USA.
If you have not seen Jamie…please check him out. He is a fun, lovable guy on a mission to help us eat real food and enjoy life.
Check out the [...]
Practice with meaning: take time to refect
I’m reading a great book by James Zull. The Art of Changing the Brain.
Neuroscience shows us two things that lead to change. The first one is Practice, yet after a while practice is not longer a stimulus. That is why we need the second one, emotion or meaning. If your learning something new and it [...]
Living Assignments
In my university classes and in my coaching practice I provide Living Assignments, a small practice to make the research come alive. One powerful living assignment is to walk with awareness.
Put away the ipod, cell phone and mental worries. Connect with the environment, sights, sounds and your own inner senses. What happens is magical. [...]
Positivity: The Leadership Tipping Point
Leaders need the skills that create positive cultures.
I will be taking a road trip to attend a conference in March that will bring the topic alive in discussion and collaborations.
Positivity: The Leadership Tipping Point is a conference on the intersections of leadership and positive psychology. At this conference, you’ll hear from notable authors, scholars, [...]
Mindfulness @ UVa
Jon Kabat-Zinn is coming to UVa
He will be doing a public talk on Friday March 12 at 7pm in Old Cabell hall
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, world-renowned teacher of mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and author of numerous books including Full Catastrophe Living, will lead a one-day retreat on mindfulness for community members, including public school teachers [...]
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