It takes a strong will to stop in the middle of a rushed day and breathe. Try stopping in the middle of typing a sentence of a report that needs to get off your desk so that the next one in the queue can open... and the next... and the next... Stopping in those moments [...]
Five Skillful Habits – the heart of the OMC program
We're thrilled to share our first publication in a journal: Five Skillful Habits: An ethics-based mindfulness intervention has been published in Counseling and Spirituality, 2010. This is a culmination of 7 years of courses at the OMC. We've always been conerned about the ways in which the idea of mindfulness can be misunderstood in a teaching [...]
Neural pruning
Neural pruning is the process of removing neurons that are no longer used or useful in the brain. Don't try it at home! It's a natural process in the brain that happens at different developmental stages. Children's brains grow rapidly and in the flood of new learning, neural pathways are created that are useful in [...]
MBSR Workbook By Bob Stahl & Elisha Goldstein
Bob Stahl, one of the best-trained teachers of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, has co-authored a workbook with Elisha Goldstein that is sure to make teaching and participating in MBSR (or MB-anything) a whole lot more beneficial. You can learn more about Bob here. And about Elisha Goldstein here. Let us know if you take this book [...]
Resiliency & Resourcing
Laurie Leitch and Elaine Miller-Karas, founders of the Trauma Resource Institute, make a point of bringing awareness to and practicing enhancement of our inner and outer resources. These are the qualities in ourselves and the people in our lives who sustain us, getting us through the tough times. Make a list of your inner resources. [...]
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