Mindful Awareness and COAL

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. Mindful awareness is more than just an absence of judgments; mindful awareness adds positive qualities to awareness. Mindful awareness, as Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. further defines it, is paying attention in the moment with

25 Aug, 2014
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Mindful Awareness: The Key to Disengaging from Your Dysfunctional Programming

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. The first step toward enlightenment is recognizing that the voice in your head isn’t you, that it’s not your boss, and that it may or may not be accurate. When you are mindfully aware, you

21 Aug, 2014
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Pause Your Machinery: How Past Traumas Can Shape Our Machinery

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness to learn and master, and this

16 Jul, 2014
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How Childhood Traumas Influence Your Programming

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon I’ve noticed that many of us have a single story or trauma from our childhood that both creates and defines the filter through which we see much of the world and that has had

8 Jul, 2014
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What To Do If You’re Very Self-Critical

A friend of mine thinks her adult children are wonderful people, and yet often she can’t sleep due to her constant self-criticism over the mistakes she feels she made parenting her children when they were young. The fact that she’s proud of them now and they love her does nothing to stop the self-criticism or

20 Jun, 2014
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