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Part Three: Three Tips to Becoming a More Mindful, Kindful Driver
"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you” - Fred Devito Becoming a more mindful-kindful driver has been a BIG challenge for me. Maybe the biggest challenge I have taken on. I can feel so righteous about my anger and resentfulness at some drivers. I...
Part Two; What I Learned in My Three Years Endeavoring to Be a Mindful-Kindful Driver
Mindfulness and Kindfulness while driving your car. If you can do this while driving you can have mindfulness and kindfulness as your livestyle.
What I Learned in My Three-Year Endeavor to Become a Mindful, Kindful Driver: Part One
Wow, was Mr. Dyer in the car with me that day?! It was one of those experiences where you say to yourself “Never again, this is not the person I want to be!” I had just been a real A-hole to a fellow driver, and I was embarrassed at what a jerk I could be.
How a Yoga Injury Made Me a Better Teacher
It was day three after what felt like a regular, run of the mill, yoga class. I just could not believe it, how am I still in pain?! What made me angry was that I knew exactly what pose from that class did it! And I was annoyed at myself for not listening to my body...
Creating Positive Head Space to Enhance Our Immune System
How to Prevent Negative Head Space and Help Your Immune System Okay, so we learned last time about how to piss off the immune system, the Gatekeeper to our Happy Place. Now we’re going to learn how to soothe the Gatekeeper—and boost the immune. Where do you start?...
Ways We Piss Off Our Immune System: Creating Negative Head Space
Ways We Piss Off Our Immune System: Creating Negative Head Space Think of your immune system as the Gatekeeper for the entrance to your Happy Place. If the gatekeeper is pissed off—or even just a little upset—you might not be able to get in to your...
The Value of Free Time
Valuing Free Time “Free Time” – A time for ease and relaxation. Do you remember when you were given “free time”. At camp or school you were told, “Free time till lunch, do what you want”. Wasn’t that just the...
What I’ve Learned Biking & Jogging Up Hills
Going up hills whether jogging or biking is a lot like life when you’re facing an “up-hill battle”. Whether it’s something big like a medical trauma, or something small, like figuring out your new updates, once again, on your phone. Going up hills on a bike or...
Three BIG Reasons To Notice Your Inner Critic
We all have one, an inner critic. Psychologists have a term for this critical not-nice voice in our head and it’s called the Superego. Merriam-Webster defines it as “the part of a person’s mind that relates to attitudes about what is right and...