Making Major Life Changes
Bringing mindfulness to the longings and impulses that lead you to make major life changes provides a method for consciously and skillfully working with the complexity of moving in new directions in your life.
What Is Mindfulness?
Practicing mindfulness can bring more clarity into your life and diminish the amount of suffering you experience. In this one-minute video, Phillip Moffitt gives a very clear explanation of what mindfulness is and how you will benefit from it.
Arriving in the Room Guided Meditation
A five-minute guided meditation to help you come into the present moment.
Preventing Pressure from Becoming Stress
Understanding the difference between pressure and stress can create a greater sense of ease and well-being in your life.
The Difference Between Pressure and Stress
When your responsibilities are bearing down on you, understanding the difference between pressure and stress can create a greater sense of ease and well-being in your life.
Knowing What’s Really Happening: Experience vs. Interpretation
A crucial skill for minimizing emotional chaos and sustaining clarity in your life is the ability to distinguish between your experience and your interpretation of your experience.
Making Skillful Decisions
Applying mindfulness to decision making leads to clearer thinking and to staying connected to your core values, which is crucial to your peace of mind. Mindful decision-making enables you to go beneath the surface level of your moment-to-moment life experience, which is clouded with emotions, to see the truth of what is happening.
Self-Soothing Reflection for Difficult Times
The need to self-soothe is not a weakness. It is a sign of maturity to be able to acknowledge this basic human need and have tools to respond skillfully. Here are instructions for a meditation to practice during hard times.
Happiness Here and Now: A Personal Reflection Exercise
Having a deeper understanding of your relationship with happiness can increase your capacity for well-being. Here is a personal reflection exercise to help you get started with practicing being mindful of happiness.