Focused Attention Increases Happiness, Study Finds
A landmark study by Harvard revealed that 47% of the time people's mind wander away from what they are doing. The problem is a wandering mind tended to be an unhappy one. Staying fully focused improves happiness. #mindfulness https://t.co/YzgextmKFC
Heal Adult Emotions by Reconnecting with Your Inner Child
How to reconnect with your inner child: https://t.co/S39Ilwztfu The experiences you had as a child influence your emotional life as an adult. Recognising these dynamics can be healing. New Psyche Guide by psychotherapist Nickan Arzpeyma
Quiet Mind, Joyful Soul: The Gift of Meditation
There is so much noise in the world, we don't realize how much our mind craves some quiet until we actually sit down to meditate. Meditation is the gift we give our mind. It's a break from the noise. The...
Write Your Why Three Times to Defuse Anxiety
Whenever upset or anxious, ask “why” at least three times and put the answers down on paper. Describing these doubts in writing reduces their impact twofold. First, it’s often the ambiguous nature of self-doubt that hurts most. Defining and exploring...
Swap Judgment for Curiosity for a Day
See how often you judge someone or something as good or bad, right or wrong. Replace judgement with curiosity for one day. https://t.co/NuHi0WGXO6
Healing Through Breathwork and Song at NYC Recovery Center
Teaching breathwork and music / vocal activation all week at a recovery center in NYC 🦋🎶🦋 So much gratitude. 🙏🏼
First Pause Button Postcard Sent, Invite to Breathe
We’re jumping the tracks. 🌬️ The first Postcard from The Pause Button Project just went out to 900+ people. It’s time to stop, breathe, and take the wheel back. Join us here: https://t.co/vRFHUUtOpl https://t.co/NhKMZdmwbu
Insights From a 60‑Day Silent Meditation Retreat
Leave a 💙 if these lessons resonate. Comment “read” and I’ll send you the full article for free about the silent 60 day meditation retreat I just sat in India. Sending love to all 🙏🏽
Stop Nighttime Overthinking: Treat Thoughts, Not Emergencies
My latest article is on nighttime overthinking and six evidence-based ways to stop that from happening. The short version: everyone's brain throws up random thoughts at night. Bad sleepers just have a brain that treats them like emergencies.
Pause 30 Seconds, Let Music Guide Your Path
30 seconds to breathe where the music is playing in a path is still unfolding 🎶
Emotional Breakthrough Outperforms Mystical Experiences in Psychedelic Therapy
Off all the constructs/phenomena that predict therapeutic response with psychedelic therapy, the best is emotional breakthrough (EB). It's not "oceanic boundlessness", it's not "mystical-type experiences," it's EB. Expect more on this soon...
Transform Self-Judgment Into Authentic Self-Love
Join me for this 6-week online course and learn practices that can help us stop judging ourselves and instead, connect more deeply to our most alive, most authentic and loving self. Here's the link to learn more & register (link...
Hypnotizability Links Differently to Interoceptive Accuracy, Sensibility, Awareness
The mighty Zan Zelic just published "Hypnotizability and interoception: Differential associations with accuracy, sensibility, and awareness". Grateful to have been involved.
Quick Steps to Boost Your Mental Health Today
A few ways to optimize your mental health right now. Take what you need: 1. Assess your social media patterns 2. Tighten up your circle 3. Get a mental health check-up 4. Look at your boundaries 5. Examine your relationship with food, sex, and...
Empty the Mind to Become Truly Full
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. ~ Lao Tzu Particularly in #meditation the goal is to empty our mind, not fill it up with concepts or ideas. You must learn to let go. https://t.co/R7CkUMIeu8
Meditation Benefits Without Long Retreats—Try Our App
Will you try sharpening your mind through meditation? And I should add, meditation retreats are objectively great but you do not have to go on a 45 day retreat to notice the benefits of a practice. If you're meditation curious...
Limit News Consumption to Preserve Your Nervous System
Staying glued to the news doesn’t make you more informed. It makes you more dysregulated. Protect your nervous system so you can actually help people. 💜🙏🏼🌈
Choose Balance: Neither Stuck Here Nor Lost Beyond
Your nervous system speaks two languages: HERE — grounded, boundaried, present in your body BEYOND — expanded, permeable, dissolved into something larger Your therapist tells you to stay HERE. Spiritual gurus tell you to go BEYOND. Wellness culture sells you expensive retreats that...
New Study Examines Psychedelic Use–Schizophrenia Connection
Exciting & important new study from my lab. Have you ever wondered how strong that alleged connection is between psychedelic use and #Schizophrenia? This project aims to point the telescope there & give it a focused look. Please share widely. @AlexaM_Molinaro...
Mindfulness: Simple Pauses Over Long Meditations
Mindfulness doesn’t have to mean long meditation sessions. It can be as simple as pausing during the day and fully experiencing a moment. Put the phone down. Notice the light, the air, the people around you. Let yourself actually experience the...
Presence Is Default; Notice It by Stopping Effort
There is no point in "trying to be present." You're always in the present moment, but you're too stuck in identity and mental constructs to notice "Being present" thus is less about "doing something" and more about NOT doing much at...
When Progress Becomes an Excuse to Quit Breathwork
My jaw dropped when I heard why someone had stopped coming to my weekly breathwork session: they wanted progress.
Get Free Insight on 60-Day Silent Vipassana Retreat
Leave a 💙 if these new favorites resonate. Which slide is for you? Credit from the first post onward: @vexking @case.kenny @thirdeyethoughts @adamgrant iuliastration @wordsarevibrations @jillianturecki @matthewzaremba @the.alchemist @heycoryallen Comment “read” and I’ll DM you the new free article that...
Stop Imagined Suffering: Stop Catastrophizing Future Events
We're so good at creating suffering that doesn't exist yet—catastrophizing about meetings that haven't happened, arguments that might never occur, worst-case scenarios that live only in our heads. By the way, my new audible original with Sebene Selassie, “Even You Can...
Discover Zen’s Core: Zazen, Posture, Modern Insight
This is looking pretty cool at @BerkeleyAlembic tomorrow. Ryuen Sensei returns to The Alembic to uncover the basic essence of Zen teachings, how this essence speaks to modern culture, and how it applies to your everyday life....
Seeing Truth Breaks the Mental Traffic Jam
" We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought" ~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Ever catch yourself in this traffic jam? Well you are not alone. Truth is at least you see it, which is one step above most people...
Suppressed Childhood Rage Fuels Adult Autoimmune Disease, Depression
The rage that you swallowed and held inside as a child becomes the autoimmune disease and depression you develop as an adult.
Accept Others' Paths, Release Your Judgment
We don’t actually know how others should live their lives. Most of the time, we’re still figuring out our own. In this video, I reflect on how remembering this can loosen the grip of judgment. ▶️ https://t.co/ao218rxwzQ #judgment #selfawareness #innerwork
Dark Showers: Quick Calm for Overstimulated Nervous System
I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research. Here are 14 ways to regulate your nervous system you’ve probably never heard of: 1. Shower in the dark (reduces sensory input and is one of the fastest ways to calm your overstimulated...
Discover Breath Techniques to Calm Your Nervous System
If you would like to join me tomorrow (Sunday) online to learn about how breath can help support your nervous system and help you feel better, comment below or send me a message :)
Rest Is Enough; You Don’t Need to Finish Everything
You don’t have to complete everything on your to do list today. You can just BE. REST. It’s enough for today. Close the laptop. Drop your shoulders. Breathe.
Meditation Made Easy: 4‑Hour Audiobook for Beginners
“I can’t meditate.” Cool. This audiobook was made for you. 4 hrs, 2 mins. That’s it. Your calm era starts now. Check out my new audiobook with Sebene Selassie, "Even You Can Meditate" only on Audible. IPMF.
Discover Your Boundless Home Through Awake Awareness
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49) 💕🙏 This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the senses in awake...
Understanding Interoception: Reconnect with Your Body’s Signals
Have you ever heard of the word "interoception?" Interception is your body's ability to sense what's happening on the inside. Hunger, fullness, thirst tension, your heart racing... It's the system that tells you what your body needs. And for a lot of people...
Shift Motivation From Fear to Safety, Not Calories
Shane interrupts your ability to care for yourself. Because it reinforces the idea that there's something wrong with you. Then, instead of diet or self-help advice benefitting you, it keeps you thinking that you're a problem to fix. If you truly want...
Learn to Guide Mindfulness with Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield
Do you want to share the benefits of mindfulness and self-compassion with others? Join Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield for this FREE training and explore how to guide others with presence, integrity, and deep listening—helping people quiet the mind, awaken...