Shifting your energy can seem like the only option you have is changing your environment and sometimes this is true, however not always. When you have pent up energy, frustrated energy, feeling down energy, feeling fatigued, feeling like someone just took the wind out of your sails, there is a way for you to shift…
Your present self can’t really count on your future self. We can have many versions of ourselves. However, it’s the three selves: your past self, our present self and our future self, we dance with most often. Counting on your future self is a risky game plan and the results can be rather inconsistent. We…
Courage is acting in the face of fear. However sometimes it’s a little more nuanced than just that. Sometimes the action we need to take in the face of fear is to stand still, to witness. Courage can simply be described as choosing not to disappear. Maya Angelou once said, “Courage is the most important…
Maybe you didn’t know about some of the health benefits of participating in an 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. Here are a few: Maybe as a leader you didn’t realize just how many organizations are providing MBSR to their teams. Here are a few: There is an 8-week course starting this January 2023.…
When faced with resistance, inaction, a temporary paralysis, one can wonder if the goal they initially set for themselves was induced by a fit of inspiration induced by some holiday excursion. “It is with a celebratory glee; a sort of spiritual awakening I announce I have finished this project! I love you!” I emailed a…
We start our last class together with a body scan; returning back to the mindfulness practice that started our 8 week journey together. We spend time reviewing all we have accomplished and focusing on a variety of ways to support our daily mindfulness practice. We take time writing down things that are now, in this…
Knowing the difference between managing something or solving something is critical to the resilience of a leader. Is it a problem needing a root cause solution? Is it a necessary tension required in achieving excellence and at times needing to be managed? There are some tensions we want to keep active because it helps us as…
In week 7 of MBSR, we begin with a mindfulness practice. This time without guidance from the teacher. We talk about how the experience of not being guided differs or the same. We then spend time talking about the all-day retreat. Opening it up to participants for them to talk about what came up for…
