INTERRUPTER: Stop and Smell the Roses
No, really. 1) Locate a flower in field of vision. 2) Stop.
3) Lean in and sniff. Wow.
Editors’ Blog
Monday, March 19 2012
Congratulations to our good friend and mindfulness teacher, Jeremy Hunter, who has just been appointed Professor of Practice at the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate School in California.
Jeremy has taught at the Drucker School for more than a decade—winning the most popular professor three times—and also presents leadership and mindfulness classes to business leaders through the Los Angeles area.
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posted by James Gimian, 8:48 am
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Friday, March 9 2012
New York Times business writer Charles Duhigg recently mentioned in an interview that his next personal project is "being more present" with his kids.
Fresh Air's Terry Gross was interviewing Duhigg about his new book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. The book explores the science behind why habits exist and how they can be changed. (For more about the book, click here.) But what caught our attention was that, in the last four minutes of the interview, Gross asked Duhigg, "What habits are on your list to be broken?"—and here's what he answered:
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posted by Line Goguen-Hughes, 10:17 am
Friday, March 2 2012
In honor of Dr. Seuss's March 2 birthday, Susan Kaiser Greenland, author of The Mindful Child, offers this guest blog post. In it, she takes a mindful look at this beloved children's author and some of his work.
Dr. Seuss has demonstrated time and time again that, when it comes to teaching abstract concepts to children, it’s okay to set the bar high. Tomorrow marks his 108th birthday and his books have informed my work in ways that I doubt he could have possibly imagined.
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posted by Line Goguen-Hughes, 2:21 pm
Thursday, February 23 2012
Mindful.org readers often contact us looking for information and guidance, and we try to answer questions and concerns as best we can. For example, we took this recent email, which seemed emblematic and important, and forwarded it to Diana Winston, the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA Semel Institute’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), for her professional opinion. Diana teaches mindfulness practices to the general public to promote health and well-being. Read her reply below.
I am 62 years old, tired of life without passion.
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posted by Line Goguen-Hughes, 11:09 am
Friday, January 13 2012
Despite grim bad-news stories, honor is in fact alive among those who serve the public. And so too is mindfulness.
Looking at the news online Wednesday night, I had that sinking feeling again:
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posted by Rod Meade Sperry, 6:14 pm
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