Featured Story: Corporate Mindfulness Dear John: Many people think of mindfulness as diametrically opposed to business, but only until they see the overwhelming evidence of mindfulness’ benefits in all aspects of business: innovation, productivity, health, collaboration, negotiation, etc. Many companies that have realized the advantages of mindfulness training encourage employees to center themselves during the […]
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Alive or Dead?
An interesting lesson in awakening, but first… Last week, in a spur of sales we hit #22 on Amazon Best Seller list for documentaries. That’s amazing! It’s really great to see this type of momentum pushing toward mindfulness. The need is there! And the magic that is necessary to make change is not so far […]
Mindfulness Training Program May Help Olympic Athletes Reach Peak Performance
Written by Christina Johnson Connor Fields, winner of the 2014 USA Cycling Elite BMX National Championship and the 2013 BMX World Champion, agreed that meditation has helped. “But the biggest thing I have learned is how to be consciously mindful and aware of my current situation,” he said. “I am more present than I used […]
The Mindfulness Movie can change people’s lives
Changing perspective is important… Excerpt from: The Huffington Post | by Alena Hall Sometimes it takes a life-changing or tragic moment for us to reconsider what we really want from life. Unemployment, illness and personal loss are just a few of the many wake-up calls that cause people to reassess how they’re living, and what […]
One day there will be no more dragons…
Mindfulness Can Help You Slay Your Dragons and Come to Terms with It… Dear John: A short snippet from Michael’s Interview: I was having breakfast with Supercoach, Michael Neill the other day and we got to talking about our thought-experienced reality among many other things. And I remembered this great story which came out […]
The Mindful Revolution
Becoming more analog in a digital world And Excerpt from Time Magazine By Kate Pickert Monday, Feb. 03, 2014 The raisins sitting in my sweaty palm are getting stickier by the minute. They don’t look particularly appealing, but when instructed by my teacher, I take one in my fingers and examine it. I notice […]
Creating Space, Creates Growth
Mindfulness helps create the space between the unknown and insight Yesterday I attended the KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum hosted by Dr. Nick Udall and Dr. Jeremy Hunter on the topic of “Mindfulness—Where Business and the Behavioral Sciences Intersect.” I was struck by how similar several main ideas they discussed were captured dramatically in The Mindfulness […]
The Hidden Ancient Wisdom
Based on many true stories When I was a young man of thirteen, I loved to watch the series, Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as Caine or Grasshopper. In fact, I know now that the early exposure through this series of the ancient wisdom of the Tao Te Ching and the Sage Chuang Tzu left […]
The Mindfulness Movie Can Help You Avoid Some Common Pitfalls
Don’t waste your precious time… I was walking this morning with my dog, Kokoa, and stopped to talk with a neighbor. The tears ran down her face as she described the sad event of her husband dying a couple of years ago. She recalled a story of how they ended up in an argument—while he […]