Redefining mindfulness

The interaction (the circumstances) shapes you. Sensing into your bodily experience puts you in touch with the bottom-up response of your organism.

The following videos describe relational mindfulness in simple terms.

As all human beings, you will at times be affected by pressure. You cannot fake being calm. To respond effectively to the situaton, your priority is to find a way to restore calm. 

Pausing can be a disruption. It gives us the possibility to be mindful, i.e. to pay attention to our inner experience in relation to what we are doing.

How can we game the system? A mindful pause disrupts the status quo. As you notice that you are on autopilot, you are no longer totally on autopilot.

It starts with the gaze between parent and infant. This close connection is the training ground where we, as infants, develop the ability to modulate our emotions.

This short article describes contemplative thinking as an embodied process. To do so, we must go beyond the old cliche that mind and body are of a different order.

It is great to take a mindful pause when we feel calm. But it is even more helpful when we don’t, i.e. when we are triggered.

Year after year, you make new year’s resolutions, only to see them wither away after a few months, sometimes just a few weeks.

There’s an unintended consequence to putting mindfulness on a pedestal: it becomes an unreachable goal. This article provides a down-to-earth perspective on mindfulness.