Keeping up with friends takes a lot of mental energy. It’s dawned on me that there has to be a solid return. — Once we’re sprung from isolation and back to our regular life, should all our old friends still be with us? Sprinkled through the many terrible realities of this pandemic have been a few good ones. For me, the best thing has being slowing down and reassessing aspects of my life…

This “inner-outer pause” is so easy you’ll wonder why you haven’t done it before. And you’ll wonder why they don’t teach it in… — If you haven’t yet felt like you’re losing it — ready to yell at the first person you encounter, throw your television across the room, or run screaming from your home — just wait. …

The Root chakra is considered the prime source of human power, but that’s true only for men — The Root chakra is considered the prime source of human power, but that’s true only for men If you’ve been taught that your spiritual power base is down at the bottom, the Root chakra that’s associated with grounding and support, you’ve been misled. For those who female-identify, your crucial power…

If you’re feeling cooped up, terrified of the news, or just wanting a way to center yourself, these easy techniques will help — If you’re feeling cooped up, terrified of the news, or just wanting a way to center yourself now that the gym, parks, and retail therapy aren’t options, try my brief but powerful centering techniques It’s been only one measly week since many of us were told to go home and…

It’s not easy, but with the right mindfulness tools even this most stressful of times can be soothed — It’s not easy, but with the right mindfulness tools even this most stressful of times can be soothed “Something doesn’t look right. We need to do more testing.” If you’ve ever heard those words come out of your doctor’s mouth, you know the pounding heart and sweaty palms that instantaneously…

It is not better to give than to receive. Joy in the world comes from doing both. — The words almost came out of my mouth the moment I opened a sweet colleague’s gift of locally sourced wildflower honey. They were right there, ready to emerge, before I was even consciously aware I was about to utter them: “Oh, you shouldn’t have.” Fortunately, this time I stopped them…

It was a pleasant surprise for me to learn that there’s a spiritual movement in the yoga tradition run by women. — Over the years I have been to many yoga ashrams for my personal spiritual development. All of them have been terrific places, but one thing they all have in common is that the top swamis running the organizations have uniformly been men. So it was a pleasant surprise for me…

You can get the benefits of peaceful stillness by sprinkling mini mindfulness practices throughout your day — minutes or moments at a time. — Perhaps, like me, you know how valuable it is to steady your crazily ping-ponging brain with a mindfulness practice. …

Society would surely grind to a halt without the men and women who make things happen at the most fundamental level. — A few weeks ago, as Hurricane Dorian was bearing down on the Bahamas and menacing my own state of Florida, I started pondering who would most be needed to rescue and rebuild whichever areas got hit. …