Category Archives: Mindfulness

A Mindfulness Exercise

  Take a moment and experiment with a mindfulness exercise. Here’s how: Stop what you are doing. Simply breathe. Say to yourself “Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out. In. Out…” Aim for a couple of minutes. Keep it simple.

Which Diet is Best?

The best diet is a whole foods diet, with foods eaten as close to their natural state as possible. Rather than eating out or buying packaged foods, cook your meals from fresh ingredients. Do not obsess over calories, but rather be aware of calories (they are not as important as we have been led to believe).… Read More »

Five Benefits of Mindfulness

Here are five ways that mindful awareness can benefit your personal life as well as the lives of those around you. 1. Mindfulness helps to slow things down. When mindfulness is introduced into our lives, behaviors are no longer automatic, knee-jerk reactions. The mindfulness muscle helps us to pause. Rather than eating vast amounts of… Read More »