I’m about to share a tool that may at first appear trivial. At least, that’s how it first appeared to me. In a million years, I never would have thought it could have such a profound impact on my life. The simple technique is… wait for it… to take a pause between tasks. That’s it. […]
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I write this month’s letter to you, dear readers, from the balcony of the condo I rent during the winter in a little town on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Tough life, huh? The truth is, life can be tough. And we often make it tougher by not taking care of ourselves, either because we never learned
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Back in the late 1970s, Jon Kabat-Zinn realized the potential value the 2,500 Buddhist meditation and awareness technique called sati—commonly translated into English as “mindfulness”—would have in therapeutic settings if it was stripped of its spiritual trappings and presented as a course in stress reduction. And so secular mindfulness was born, the wholsesale transformation of
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In life we can expect to face many difficult decisions, exhausting conundrums and cliffhangers exemplified by The Clash’s old, catchy track “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” For example, making up one’s mind about sticking with or getting out of a stressful job, a rocky relationship, a risky opportunity and so on can make
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Patricia Moreno is a fitness visionary and inspiring leader who has trained and coached globally for over 30 years. In an effort to end her own struggle with her weight, eating disorders, and body images issues, she created The intenSati Method, a life transforming workout which combines her expertise in fitness, dance, martial arts, yoga, nutrition,
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