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Meditations Overview

How to meditate overview.

Exercises Overview

A little bit about our exercises.

Visualizations Overview

Visualizations explained.

Affirmations Overview

Affirmations overview.

Journaling Exercises Overview

How to do writing exercises.

Real World Exercises Overview

Real World exercises help you integrate your skills into your day to day life.

Inner Child Exercises Overview

Work with your inner child so you can heal past issue.

All Mirror Exercises Overview

Working with yourself by looking at yourself in a mirror is a powerful way to shift your self talk.

It All Starts With Being Mindful

Unless we know what we are experiencing at every given moment in time, we can not take control of our own destiny.

How Our Brain Works

Our brains are always assessing our experiences and coming up with a conclusion about what is happening.

How We Learn

We learn by linking experiences with concepts. These links can be inaccurate and we can learn to shift them to something more reasonable and balanced.

What Causes Our Emotions?

Our currently active thoughts/beliefs cause emotions. These beliefs can be conscious or unconscious and they can be real or imagined. It is important to know where they come from.

Trust, Value and Acceptance: Core Traits

Building trust, value and acceptance are the three funimental straits that allow us to soar.

Self-Trust: The Antidote to Fear

When we trust our selves and our abilities our fears start to diminish.

Self-Value: The Antidote to Shame

Building self-value reduces shame and insecurity.

Acceptance: The Antidote to Anger

Building acceptance allows us to release control over what we cannot control.

Identifying Negative Thinking

Identifying your negative thinking is the key to moving forward.

Benefits of Mindfulness

There are many benefits to becoming more mindful. Here are just a few.

Being the Observer of Ourselves

Being the observer give us perspective.

What is a Meditation Practice

Meditating is just a series of mental exercises that we conduct. Here is an explanation of what different types of meditation practices.

Compassion

Compassion helps motivate people to change as well as build the skills needed to BE with others in their distress. Compassion is the great motivator for improvement.

Optimistic Re-Framing

There are many exercises that help improve various skills. It's important to change them up so we stay interested and motivated.

Counter Pointing

Optimistic re-framing allows us to change our beliefs by looking at the facts of the situation and pointing out the flaws in our assessments.

The Importance of Gratitude

Being Grateful is a great way to look at your life in a positive manner. Everyone has many things to be grateful for.

Writing and Journaling

Journaling is a great exercise to help uncover out stories. There are many benefits to taking up this practice.

Mirror Work and Exercises

How we talk to ourselves is very important. Looking in the mirror is a great way to learn to be kind to ourselves.

Visualizations

Visualizations allow us to implant a different story. Athletes have used this technique for decades. Here is a way to use them for yourself.

Counseling Yourself

There are better ways to talk to ourselves and here is a brief explanation of one of those ways.

Affirmations

Affirmations do work! Here is a brief explanation of how to use them.

Mantras

Mantras are a great way to change our beliefs to something more balanced. Here is an explanation of how to use them.

2 Types of Stress

There are 2 types of stress; eustress and distress. What is the difference and how it this helpful?

Building a Growth Mindset

We can learn new things and cultivating a growth mindset allows us to do that.

Building Resiliency Skills

Resiliency is a skill that we can learn to cultivate.

Cultivating Empathy

Empathy is a learned skill. You can cultivate it.

Flow and Engagement

Have you ever been in a state of flow? It comes down to your perceptions of your challenges versus your skills.

Fostering Prosocial Behavior

We all can learn how to be more social in a positive way.

Fostering Self-Compassion

Self-compassion is necessary if we want to move forward in life.

Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity is the concept that our brain changed with repeated mental tasks. We can use this to our advantage.

Optimism and Pessimism

Optimism and pessimism are just explanitory styles. We can shift and learn to become more optimistic.

PERMA Model of Thriving

What is the PERMA model and how can we use it to improve our well-being.

Positive Psychology

What is positive psychology and how can studying it benefit us.

Re-Framing is based in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Optimistic re-framing is based in the fundimentals of cognitive behavioral therapy.

Understanding our Default Mode Network

Understanding our brain's default mode network and how best to manage it.

Types of Negative Thinking

It's important to know what our stories are about ourselves and our lives. Identifying the negative ones allows us to correct them and more forward in a positive manner.

The Science of Mindfulness

Mindfulness has been studied at length in the past decade. Mindfulness practices are not some fads or some flaky practices. There is real science behind the claims.

Emotions Trigger Behaviors

A brief explanation of why we act the way that we do.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is a wonderful framework indicating the four compitencies that are necessary to move us forward in our lives with greater ease.

Self-Awareness

Self Awareness is one of the emotional intelligence competencies. It is necessary to fully understand what is going on and how best to more forward in life.

Social Awareness

Social Awareness allows us to become more aware of others and thus interact with them in a more effective manner.

Self-Management

Self-Management is all about managing your beliefs about yourself and your experiences. Shifting them to something more balanced shifts how you feel which in turn shifts your decisions and actions.

Relationship/Social Management

Social-Management is all about managing the relationships with the people in your life. It is an Emotional Intelligence competency and you cannot succeed without learning the skills of Mindfulness and Optimistic Re-Framing.

Mindfulness and Teamwork

Mindfulness practices allow us to build greater empathy and understanding for others. This in turn help improve teamwork and collaboration.

Mindfulness Return on Investment (ROI)

There is a very easy way of calculating Return on Investment (ROI) and Mindfulness. 47% of the time the average person's mind wanders. This has a huge impact in the workplace and the cost of this lost productivity is large. The ROI of rolling out a Mindfulness strategy is huge.

Reducing Stress and Increasing Well-Being with Mindfulness

Mindfulness can help everyone reduce their overall levels of stress. From focused attention to Optimistic Re-framing, these skills have be learned and improved upon with practice.

Our Negative Brain

Our brain is naturally focused on the negative. We can do something about it.

Your Inner Child

Many of our stories about ourselves come from our childhood experiences. This is a great way to correct some inaccuracies and move in a different direction.

Mindful Workplaces

Creating a mindful workplace is more that giving a class. It's about creating an environment where the people are valued and given the opportunity for personal improvement. This in turn improves an organizations overall productivity.

Mindful Communication

Mindfulness can help everyone improve their communication skills. From generous listening to compassionate responding these skills help get the word across more effectively.

Mindfulness, Motivation and Goals

Mindfulness can help everyone achieve their goals. Being aware of our negative limiting stories and recognizing that we can change these beliefs allows us to move forward with greater ease.

Increasing Focus and Productivity

In today's world we are becoming more and more distracted. Our ability to focus is diminishing. Practicing Mindfulness allow us the space to practice maintaining focus and improve our overall level of concentration therefor becoming more productive.

Mindful and Compassionate Leadership

Gone are the days of the cold and distant leader. There are 3 key drivers in great leadership; trust, vision and values. The great news is these levers of great leadership are trainable skills.

Mindfulness and Creativity

Mindfulness can help ones creative juices flow. By spending the time to pause and listen for inspiration and guidance allows ideas to emerge.

Physical Exercise and Nutrition

Physical exercise and nutrition are key components that contribute to optimal mental well being. Get up and move around and eat non-processed foods. Your brain will thank you.

Diversity and Inclusion

Increasing diversity and inclusion in any organizations takes real proactive action.

Mindfulness and Customer Focus

Mindfulness can help your organization be more customer focused and there are a number of practices that one can do to increase the skills necessary to meet your customer's needs.

Ultimate Guide to Mindfulness @Work

This is an Ultimate Guide for Mindfulness @Work. If you are interested in changing your organizations culture so it becomes for Mindful and aware then here are the 7 key steps to follow.

Mindfulness and HR Professionals

HR professionals are very busy and time is money. That is why we developed a series of online Mindfulness programs that you can take which allows you the flexibility of learning at your own pace, on your schedule and wherever you want to be.

Mindfulness and Lawyers

We all want to succeed and achieve. The good news is that the latest findings in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience show us a different approach: a Mindful and Compassionate approach.

Mindfulness and Children

Mindfulness a handy skill for children to learn.

Children and Emotions

Mindfulness can help children with difficult emotions.

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