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Tag: Mindfulness

  • Welcome November

    This month, look for small things to appreciate.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. This week’s calming practice is a moving breath sequence. Let’s bring some calming and uplifting energy into our day as we sync our breath and body with this moving-breath practice.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. This week’s calming practice is experiencing mindfulness as we listen to music.

  • Therapy Thursday

    Therapy Thursday

    Mindful Walks With the Summer months in bloom, what better time to escape outside for a walk! Walking (even a short 5-minute walk) can calm your nervous system. You can focus on your footfalls and the feeling of the ground beneath you. You can get unstuck and reduce stress.  If you cannot get outside, walking…

  • Therapy Thursday

    Therapy Thursday

    How to Improve Your Proprioception What is proprioception? Proprioception is your body’s ability to sense its position, movement, and balance. Think of it as, your internal GPS. Proprioception relies on sensory receptors (called proprioceptors) in your muscles, tendons, and joints. These send constant feedback to your brain about body position, muscle tension, and movement. Your…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Focus Switching This powerful practice can train our ability to switch our focus and discover which type of mindful focal point works best for us. Here’s how! Notice a niggle or (physical) pain in your body or an uncomfortable emotion you are experiencing, or…

  • Welcome February

    This month, focus on communicating mindfully.

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindfulness Cognitive load is the total amount of mental effort you are using. Prolonged overload leads to frustration and burnout.  If your mind were a (web) browser: Write down the topics on your open tabs. * Which tab(s) can you “close” to ease your cognitive load?

  • Welcome December

    This month, look for the light. Find happiness in the simple joys and blessings all around us.

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them – without believing, for instance, that there is a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we…