Reanna Mathis is a public advocate for chronic health difficulties online. She is a wife, stay-at-home mom, and has found purpose in the pain of her chronic illness by staying active in her writing. What is a Chronic Illness? What is a chronic illness and how does it really impact marriages? Because chronic conditions may sound like a rare circumstance, you may be surprised to learn that nearly HALF of all Americans cope with a chronic ailment....
Here are five postures for you to try so that you can focus on your practice and get more out of your meditation. You can watch me teach all of these different ways to sit in this video. 5 Meditation Postures for Beginners 1. Classic Sitting In classic sitting we want to create an upright posture. We want to keep the spine straight to facilitate easy breathing, and we want ease in our bodies so that we can focus on our breath, our body, or sounds around us....
How to Style a Flower Crown Step 1: Prep your strands. After washing and conditioning your hair, you’ll want to prep your strands to give your hair some texture and hold. We suggest combing Dove Style + Care Volume Amplifier Mousse through your roots to create volume and hold as a foundation for your flower crown. Then, let your hair air dry or blow dry if you’re short on time....
How to Use Dry Shampoo Spray Before Styling Hair 1. The Blowout These days, an at home blowout is our only option. If you find the motivation to style your hair, you’re going to want to make it last. To keep a blowout in shape you’ll need to go through a few tricks before bed, which may require the use of your flat iron. But with your hectic schedule, jumping into bed after a long day seems more like it....
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. When I spotted this box of Quaker Whole Heart Cereal at the store, I KNEW I had to buy it. How cute are these sweet little hearts?? The flavor of them is similar to Honey Nut Cheerios but the shape – SO FUN! I thought I could do a little something on the box to make it a cute love note for my husband....
Saveland had begun to take an interest in work done at a human performance laboratory at the University of Montana that suggested there were many similarities between firefighters and elite endurance athletes. He then started to research endurance athletic training that employed mindfulness training, and was impressed with how applicable this approach might be to firefighter training. Last year, he and Putnam piloted a half-day course that introduced firefighters to situational awareness and recent research on the benefits of enhancing it....
Much like caffeine, WiFi and Instagram, dry shampoo is without doubt, a modern-day essential we’d find almost impossible to give up. A life-saver on days when you don’t have time to wash your locks, or to refresh your strands after a workout at the gym, dry shampoo also doubles as a handy styling tool with instant results. Want to know how dry shampoo actually works and what impact it has on your strands?...
Wow. People used to assume that baseline happiness is unchangeable, but I am living proof that it can be moved from high negative to high positive with only a few years of practice. It is really about the training. In my Search Inside Yourself class, for example, the vast majority of participants did little or no meditation before the class, but after just a few days or weeks of meditation, many of them reported meaningful increases in happiness....
The Hydrating Hair Mask We’re Obsessing Over In an age when we’re receiving constant reminders to bump ‘self care’ back up to the top of our list of priorities, a hair mask is a must-have. We’re big proponents of finding small ways to treat ourselves that double as things that are actually good for us. Think of a hydrating hair mask as the chia seeds in your morning smoothie. A dose of healthy benefits in the form of a creamy and deliciously smelling treat....
One curriculum in Harlem has kids lead each other in meditation and sit for about 10 minutes a day. The teachers have been trained in the RULER program, designed at Yale University, with the goal of helping children develop emotional intelligence. The results of this program reflects the research on emotional intelligence: “They’re doing better in school. They have more positive relationships and on top of that, they have better physical and psychological well-being,” says child development expert Denise Daniels in an article from the Time Warner Cable News....
Surprise your spouse with an adorable, quick, and easy love note printable placemat. Each placemat has love note ideas that will make it simple to share your feelings of love in just minutes. Little surprises, such as breakfast in bed, a hello smooch that lingers, a love note on the bathroom mirror, the wags of our dogs tails when we mention the word “walk”, or an act of service are always reasons to smile a little brighter and put a kick in my step!...
We reported in the August issue of Mindful magazine that Chris Ruane, the Vale of Clwyd MP, had invited 12 MPs to spend 75 minutes a day meditating for 8 weeks. And it looks like Ruane’s efforts as parliament’s leading advocate for mindfulness are paying off. So far, more than 50 MPs have participated in the mindfulness course Ruane set up in conjunction with the Oxford Center for Mindfulness. The Huffington Post reported that another round of the 8-week course is due to start in February, with a further 25 signed up....
10 Men’s Hairstyles for Gray Hair to Try We found a slew of very modern, low-maintenance grey hairstyles for men that are also easy to integrate into your personal style. Read on: 1. Cropped Princeton Men’s Hairstyle for Gray Hair Cropped is an easy style to maintain. Wear your hair in the cropped Princeton or Ivy League hairstyle; hair is cut tight on the sides and back. With the cropped Princeton, the top is also cut close....
Janice Marturano is spearheading the blog. She’s the founder and executive director of the Institute for Mindful Leadership. And she also contributes to Mindful magazine in our In Practice: Work department. Marturano’s first post on the Mindful Leadership blog looks at the definition of a mindful leader. She writes: A mindful leader is someone who embodies leadership presence by cultivating focus, clarity, creativity and compassion in the service of others....
The weekend retreat will take place from September 14-16 in Lingfield, Surrey. It will offer an experiential introduction to mindfulness meditation, exploring what mindfulness is, how it can be cultivated and what it can bring to your life. For more information and to register for any of the retreats, click here. Ed also regularly teaches eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction courses—see London and Sussex for more on those. And click here to read Ed’s latest blog posts on Mindful....
Get ready to celebrate all things summer with this adorable nautical date night! It’s time to set sail with your sweetie for a summer night you’ll never forget! After you fill out the invitation roll it up and slide it into a bottle! This way you get to leave your sweetie a romantic message in a bottle for them to stumble upon! While my hubby was in the shower I snuck into the bathroom, plugged and filled up the sink, and dropped the bottle in....
If we go back to my worry-filled mind as I anticipated going snorkeling, we can see that talking about that experience is just the kind of opening that would help teens relate to a common pattern in their own minds. A great intervention to use with teens is to have them find out how many of their thoughts are actually about what’s going on here and now. They can see that by spending so much time in their mind on things that have already happened or are going to happen, they aren’t living their life right now....
