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Explaining Mindfulness to Children

How You Can Explain Mindfulness To Kids In A Way They Will Understand, Remember And Enjoy

The Importance Of Mindfulness

When we don’t know how to help ourselves during times of anxiety and stress, life can be unbearable. Particularly as children, we are at our most vulnerable. While we are taught ways to protect ourselves from physical danger, often we are not taught how to help ourselves through psychological suffering.

Moreover, kids may not know how to ask for help or understand when they need it. In fact, I experienced this myself as a child and I strongly believe that explaining mindfulness to kids can really help them move through life with ease and confidence.

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The Perils Of The Unobserved Mind

Making A Leap Towards Peace And Freedom

A Realization For Emotional And Mental Well-Being

The unobserved mind creates incredible psychological pain for many people. When you deeply recognize that your thoughts are not facts, you will be able to free yourself from the perils of the unobserved mind and cut through the delusions of fear, anger, and depression.

As a result, your mind will be released from psychological suffering and be illuminated, peaceful, and tranquil.

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Dealing With Uncertainty

Dealing With Uncertainty: A Common Trigger For Anxiety

The Link Between Anxiety And Uncertainty

It is important to truly understand how your mind treats uncertainty so that you are not held prisoner by it.

Dealing with uncertainty can trigger anxiety, tension, and stress, causing us to view the world with hostility and apprehension. Additionally, it can leave us feeling vulnerable and uneasy, making us indecisive, clouding our judgment, and resulting in irrational behavior.

For example, dealing with uncertainty in a relationship, job, or with regard to your health, can cause you to ruminate over the worst-case scenario. You may then act from a place of fear, and project those fears onto the people around you.

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Short Story: The Friends in my Head

A Short Story About Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and Insomnia

A few nights ago, I could not sleep and started writing this short story about the friends in my head; Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia and ADHD. With mindfulness, meditation, and self-inquiry, my perspective about mental illness has shifted, and I can now make light out of my experience.

In truth, I wrote this story from a carefree place, and if you read it with a serious tone, you may miss the intended sarcasm and irony. I hope it makes you laugh and gives you hope, but if it makes you cry, know that you are not alone. Either way, please let me know in the comments if you can relate to this story.

Medication, Mental Health

My hope is that those who are struggling with anxiety and depression will become aware that there is a way to be free despite the inner turmoil. 

You can find peace even if mental illness walks with you. I know this because it walks with me and I have learned that it is okay. You can read my bio here.

Emotions and mental states are constantly changing, but peace is available in every moment, for everyone.

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The Dark Night of the Soul

What Is The Dark Night Of The Soul And How To Transition Through It

Throughout time, many ancient scriptures and sages have said that the secret of life is to: “die before you die,” for it is in death that we let go of everything.

Often we forget that every form is impermanent, yet, we cannot escape this reality. There is deep wisdom in this recognition. Everything in this life is temporary, and birth and death arise together. In truth, the dark night of the soul comes to wake us up to the light of our eternal being.

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Discover the Power of Mindfulness

What is Mindfulness

What exactly is mindfulness and why should we care about it? Well, we often make up our minds about something within a very short period of time. Influencers, bloggers, writers, advertisers, salespeople, almost everyone who has ever tried to engage or convince anyone of anything, knows that they must have a compelling hook. This is the extent of mine and if you are still reading, great, but at any point that can change because of a single deciding factor: a thought.

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The power of mindfulness
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Breaking the Chains of Desire

The Link Between Desire and Suffering

If we picture “desire” as a tree and “clinging” as a rope, suffering arises when we tie one end of the rope around ourselves and the other end to the tree. The tree and the rope can exist, but it is our identification with them that binds us. Both desire and clinging arise in our consciousness and we can be aware of them because we are separate from them.

We do not need to tie ourselves to either but because we believe we can obtain something of value, we continue clinging even when it causes us pain.

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“The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.” ― Jack Kornfield
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