A Road Map for Becoming Mindfully Aware of How You Operate—Step 1

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. One of the concepts I find valuable in helping me to mindfully look at how I think and act when I allow my default programming to run me is the concept of identity. By identity

15 Sep, 2014
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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: Thinking About Your Shadow Side

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

18 Aug, 2014
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Dealing with the Anger in My Past

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon. Although I didn’t realize it as a child, I recognized later that I was angry at my older brother for not being there for me emotionally; enraged at my father for leaving me by

12 Aug, 2014
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