Affirmations
March 8, 2025Affirmations and Meditation: Understanding the Differences
How affirmation meditation and mindfulness meditation differ, where they overlap, and three ways to combine them.
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BlogDecember 17, 202411 Winter Writing Prompts for Insight and Renewal
Eleven winter writing prompts, a simple journaling ritual, and a look at the quiet, restorative energy of the season, for reflection and renewal.
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Parenting & FamiliesFebruary 13, 2024A Comprehensive Guide on How to Teach Kids to Meditate
Explore proven strategies on how to teach kids to meditate. Foster mindfulness and emotional well-being in children with our comprehensive guide for parents.
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BlogMarch 17, 2023Spring Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness to the Season of New Life
From nature contemplations to spring meditation, there are many ways to honor and savor this time of year.
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BlogJune 17, 20226 Mindful Ways to Celebrate the Summer Solstice
Six mindful ways to celebrate the summer solstice, from sunrise meditation to gratitude journaling, plus a short guided practice for the longest day of the year.
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BlogDecember 17, 20219 Mindfulness Tips for Holiday Stress
The holiday season is often portrayed as a time of fun, laughter, love, and good cheer. While this may indeed be the case for some, the holidays can also bring about stress, difficult emotions, and tension within our relationships. Practicing mindfulness during this season can help to reduce holiday stress and increase our ability to […]
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BlogNovember 16, 2021How to Be Mindful of Your Emotions
As humans, we all experience a wide range of emotions. From uplifting emotions like joy and contentment to more challenging emotions like anger and sadness, the human emotional experience comes in many shades. Mindfulness of emotions is the practice of bearing witness to whatever emotion we are experiencing – with curiosity, care, and non-judgment. It […]
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BlogNovember 5, 2021The Power of Mindfulness for Sleep
If you have ever had a poor night’s sleep, you know just how important our hours of deep rest really are. Not getting enough good quality sleep can impact how we show up in the world. Our mood, our emotions, our work, and our relationships are all areas of life that are impacted by the […]
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BlogOctober 17, 2021How Mindfulness Can Change the World
Mindfulness is a personal practice that sends ripples into the world around us. In other words, even though it is often considered an inner practice, the impact it has on our thoughts and feelings go on to impact our outward actions. What is internal becomes external, which is in essence how mindfulness can change the […]
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BlogJune 7, 2021The Power of Loving Kindness & How to Cultivate It
Our world is in need of a wave of loving kindness. As tension increases across the globe (due to everything from pandemic stress to geopolitical strife and in-between), we can serve our collective wellbeing by coming back to the heart. Loving kindness meditation is one way of cultivating the compassion that we need. It is […]
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