1. Learn to Work the Right Way (for you) Problem: Not leveraging your most productive time (golden hours) to their full potential. Solution: Understand your Energy Patterns. Everyone has “golden hours.” Those hours are when you are most productive and highly creative. I am the most productive from 10:00 am till 2:30 pm. My most highly creative projects (like...
Word of the Year concepts is popular planning tools. You use a word to represent your upcoming year and what you wish to accomplish. But this word has to represent your dreams, goals, action plans – EVERYTHING! And while I believe that words are powerful (I am a writer after all!), that’s a lot to put on a little word’s shoulders. Over the last few years...
This review was written as my final paper for my certification in Brenda Feuerstein’s 52-week Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training. We were to pick one book from the course’s extensive reading lists write a review. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of my favorite teachers, and many of his books line my shelves. I post this paper as a review on my...
This experiment comes from the master of Neroscience Dr. Mark Waldman. Its purpose: help you hear how busy your mind can be as it thinks up the words it wants you to say. Say a single sentence out loud.Say another sentence, but this time leave 2 seconds between each word.With each additional sentence, pause for an additional secondNotice how your inner speech...
What is a Sankalpa? A unique aspect of Yoga Nidra that sets it apart from other stress relief and relaxation training methods is the Sankalpa. This Sanskrit word is often translated as “a resolve” or “resolution” or “intention”. Brenda Feuerstein, co-founder of Traditional Yoga Studies (and my mentor) explains that “kalpa means ‘vow,’ or ‘the rule...