Minding Your Stress

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound, in fear of what my life and my children’s life may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the [...]

Occasionally people ask me about the transition from my role as a software marketing professional to being a mindfulness instructor and stress management consultant/coach.   If you are one of those people who is interested in hearing about my career path and mindfulness in the workplace, below is a

“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.  To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.” – The Buddha One of the most common misconceptions about meditation is that it is used as a way to stop your thoughts and other experiences [...]

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.” – Madeline L’Engle If you look up the definition of “vulnerable” in the dictionary, you will find it to mean: 1. [...]

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.” — Richard Bach The wandering mind is the often the most dominant experience

“When we are capable of living in the moment, free from the tyranny of “shoulds,” free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn’t right, we will have peaceful hearts.” – Joan Borysenko, A Woman’s Book of Life “Shoulds” are a form of distorted thoughts – thought patterns that have become habit

“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.” – Mac McCleary Driving is an activity that most of us do on a daily basis.  It also tends to incur a significant amount of stress.  In fact, commuting to and from work may be the most stressful part [...]

“Freedom is from within.” – Frank Lloyd Wright Every year at this time, seven or eight days honor the Jewish festival of Passover. Passover is the Jewish holiday that commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.  As told in the Book of Exodu

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. “ – Mark Twain “What, me worry?” is the signature phrase of Alfred E. Neuman, the fictional mascot and iconic cover boy of Mad magazine.  His mischievous character is depicted as not having a care in the [...]

It is no secret to those who know me that meditation, and mindfulness in general, is one of my passions. Like many others, I originally developed a meditation practice to address challenges I was experiencing in my daily life. Upon graduating from college, with a background in engineering and a prog