What One Great Loss Is Teaching Me About How to Live
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” ~...
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Teaching Mindfulness for Stress: A Teacher’s Guide
People come to mindfulness classes carrying different kinds of stress. Some are worn down by work, others have family responsibilities ...
Teaching Mindfulness in the Classroom: Activities and Strategies
Students do not leave their stress at the classroom door. Some come in worried about a test, upset about a friendship, tired from a lon...
Teaching Mindfulness to Parents: A Teacher’s Guide
I have a lot of conversations that start the same way. A parent describes some ordinary moment, getting shoes on, getting out the door,...
Teaching Meditation to Seniors: A Guide for Teachers
It’s the middle of the afternoon in a common room, a dozen chairs pulled into a rough circle, a television murmuring in the corner that...
Teaching Mindfulness for Addiction Recovery: A Guide
During meditation, a participant may become aware of an urge to use. Perhaps they notice tension in their chest first, or find that sit...
Teaching Mindfulness for ADHD: A Teacher’s Guide
Meditation, as most people teach it, asks a person to sit still and hold their attention on one thing. That is close to the precise com...
Teaching Mindfulness for Chronic Pain: A Guide
The body scan is a common mindfulness practice, but it needs extra care when you are teaching someone with chronic pain. A traditional ...
Teaching Meditation to First Responders: A Guide
Say you have been booked to run a meditation session for a room of police officers, or firefighters, or paramedics, or the dispatchers ...
Teaching Mindfulness to Executives: A Teacher’s Guide
Say a company has hired you to bring mindfulness to its leadership team. You will be standing in front of people who are measured on ou...