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April is Stress Awareness Month. There are many benefits to being mindful. Mindfulness makes it easier to savor the pleasures in life as they occur, helps you become fully engaged in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events. Mindfulness can help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, improve sleep and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties. Below are five short (five minutes or less) mindfulness practices

If you find yourself struggling to get going in the morning, one or more of these five morning rituals may be the ticket to a better start to your day. If the list seems overwhelming to tackle in one day, spread the five rituals over five days. This is a great, and accessible, way to get started. In no particular order (if doing more than one of these on the same morning, experiment to find the order that works best for you): Stretch / practice yoga – I watch my puppy move fr

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been listening to Deepak Chopra’s 21-day meditation experience, Desire and Destiny. The premise of the daily guided meditations is that what we focus our attention on, we cultivate in our lives, and that our desires are indicators of our destiny. Chopra indicates that we can open the door to our destiny by being clear and connected to our true purpose. In one of the guided meditations, he mentions that if you can dream it with intention,

"The meeting of two eternities, the past and the future…is precisely the present moment." Henry David Thoreau When May comes around, I find myself eager for summer, and start planning all of the fun things I will do in the coming months. Often I find that all of the summer weekends are fully booked by the time we reach Memorial Day. Especially this year, with the wedding coming up in June, and all of the associated activities, my focus feels scattered. I’m so busy planning an