Loving Kindness Exercise

This meditation practice from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center is very simple. Just follow these instructions. Sit straight on a chair in a darkened room. Close your eyes, breathe naturally, and relax your entire body, letting go of all the tension in your race, neck, legs, arms, and feet. Focus your mind on someone

22 Jun, 2015
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Where It All Begins: The Healthy Functioning of Your Prefrontal Cortex

The cerebral cortex is the part of the brain that gives you your higher cognitive functions (language, logic, and planning). It modulates the primitive emotional responses of your limbic system, including those of your brain’s fear center, the amygdala, and your reptilian complex, which regulates fight or flight. Your cerebral cortex also monitors and influences

1 Dec, 2014
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Replacing Beliefs That Are Undermining Us at Work with New Beliefs That Support Us

For the last two weeks, I’ve been writing about how the culture of an organization can undermine its mandate or mission statement and that when this happens, it’s always done silently and in a stealth manner in the sense that people in the organization aren’t aware of it. As we discussed, an organization’s culture develops

17 Nov, 2014
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Culture vs. Mandate: How a Company’s Culture Can Erode Its Mandate

In my book Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living and its predecessor, My Mind Is Not Always My Friend, I concentrate on how becoming more mindful—that is, being focused with intent in the present, experiencing the present circumstance as it TRULY is, without judgment and interpretation and, most importantly, WITHOUT AN

10 Nov, 2014
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A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Payoffs or Heavy Costs?

I’ve mentioned that our acts have three payoffs, but are these really payoffs? By becoming mindfully aware of and reflecting on my acts, I can now see that they don’t deliver real payoffs; they’re just payoffs for my machinery. They keep me trapped in my old fixed way of being and reinforce the neural

25 Sep, 2014
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