Inner Wisdom: You Say You Want a Resolution
Hard-knuckling it through our New Year’s goals can strain even the best intentions. Here’s a mindful strategy for less stress and more success in keeping your resolutions.
→Author: Elaine Smookler
Elaine Smookler
Elaine Smookler has been a mindful practitioner for over 20 years and is on the faculty at The Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto. She is a Registered Psychotherapist and teaches mindfulness to corporate clients through eMindful. She's also a comedic writer and performer and is the singing host of Mindful Martinis, a cabaret/mindfulness class mash up.
What Does It Mean to Be Grateful?
Gratitude isn’t just in our head: It takes root in our heart and in our senses, for one beautiful moment…and then the next. Here are three ways to practice gratitude, from a.m. to p.m.
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How to Show Up When You Have Cancer
In this podcast, Patricia Rockman, director of education and clinical services for the Center for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, and Mindful columnist Elaine Smookler, both cancer survivors, talk about how mindfulness factors into the cancer experience.
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A 5-Minute Gratitude Practice: Focus on the Good by Tapping into Your Senses
This 5-minute mindfulness practice cultivates gratitude for life’s small delights as you move through the senses.
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Why Change is Your Greatest Ally
Changes often hurt when they first emerge, but resisting them goes against the way the world works.
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Get More from Your Glass of Wine with this Mindful Drinking Exercise
You can have a drink and pay attention.
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Passion Will Spark Your Resolutions, Not Pressure
Fuel your New Year’s resolutions with intention, not nagging. Here are 7 steps to investigate what drives you, so you can hold firm to fresh habits in 2018.
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How to Ride the Waves of CHANGE
The truth is: we don’t know much about what “will be.” Here are six mindfulness tips for going with the flow—rather than losing ourselves in the undertow.
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What to Do When Things Fall Apart
How to stay steady when it feels like the world is against you.
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Make a Friend out of a Foe
Making a habit to be friendly—even toward people we don’t like—can render us happier and healthier.
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