Author: BeingMerry
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Training Your Attention to Focus on What’s Important
As I facilitate mindfulness meditation classes and coach individuals on mindful eating, self-compassion and stress reduction, I’m constantly asked the question, “Which mindfulness program is the best one for me?” My answer: it depends on that which you wish to focus– the relationship you want to experience differently. I’ve been asked this question so many…
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Stress Less this Holiday Season
Wondering how to reduce your stress and enjoy life more this holiday season? Take a look at the latest blog post I penned for the HeraHub Herald, a resource for Women Entrepreneurs. Imparted are practical mindful TIPs (Taking In (the) Present) that you can pack in your toolbox to use when you are faced with…
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Surviving the Holidays with Mindfulness and Gratitude
Looking for tips on how to get through the stress of the holidays? Find yourself with busy schedules, long lists of to-dos, anticipated changes in new ways to be with the holidays, managing relationships and more? Need a reminder on why gratitude is important, and new twists on old practices? Check out a couple of…
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Eating, Drinking and Being Mindful: 5 Tips to Help You Eat Mindfully this Holiday Season
Yes, the holidays are upon us… as are the bowls filled with Halloween candy, bottomless cookie platters, delicious baked breads (healthy because they are pumpkin, carrot or zucchini, right?), rich creamy soups and casseroles to warm us, and festive cocktail beverages that go down effortlessly. Such a spread would increase anyone’s waistline over time, if…
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Getting Your Mind Back on Track: Ending Rumination with Mindful Meditation
Check out the guest blog post I penned this week for A2Z Healing Toolbox.com . This is a GREAT resource for anyone experiencing any type of grief, loss, trauma and transition. Whatever the grief is, know that comparing your grief with someone else does not help. Making it smaller than it is, or larger than it…
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When’s the last time you experienced the power of AWE?
Last weekend I had the privilege of attending The Art and Science of AWE Event organized by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. It was a day to increase awareness of this universal feeling and see it in a new light; as a positive emotion that brings a multitude of benefits to our health, well-being and society…
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May: National Mental Health Awareness Month
So much going on this month of May. Beginning with the most important (in my book): National Mental Health Awareness Month! Why is it that our society cares more about how we look and function on the outside than how we feel and function on the inside? Just look around at the media these days…
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From Stressed to Blessed, Part 2
As we exit Stress Awareness Month, I wanted to share a specific practice may allow you to have another perspective on stress. In the Mindfulness -Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) class we define stress as change, which is an inevitable part of life. We adopt the mindset that change can be helpful, allowing us to grow and…
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From Stressed to Blessed
(This blog post was adapted from a piece written for HeraHub: Co-working Space for Women– for April is STRESS AWARENESS MONTH) The demands of the business day seem to continuously pile up: the phone calls, emails, voicemails, budgets, reports, and meetings on the schedule. You are the ultimate producer, juggling multiple roles and projects to build or contribute…
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Take This Month to Focus on Your Heart!
Hello February, 2016! So good to greet you! I’ve never seen you before. I wonder what adventures we will have in store for us this month? Perhaps a little heart work—in many different directions. After all, February is National Heart Awareness Month (today is the Go Red for Women’s Day). It is this month that…