by Max Alaghband | May 29, 2020 | compassion, Coronavirus, Emotional Intelligence, Insight, Leadership, Lifestyle, Mindfulness, Resilience
A horse is galloping quickly on a village road. The man riding it seems to be in a hurry to get to somewhere important. A curious villager standing alongside the road, shouts, “Where are you going?” The rider replies, “I don’t know! Ask the horse!” – Adapted from The... 
by Max Alaghband | May 13, 2020 | change, Coronavirus, Health, Leadership, Lifestyle, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, RESET, Resilience, Self-Regulation
This post is written by Max Alaghband, our newest contributor and a longtime student of mindfulness. Your boss is hounding you about a deadline, your 3 year-old is about to push over the planter—again—and the news is spouting worrying facts about COVID-19 in the... 
by Shalini Bahl, Ph.D. | Apr 27, 2020 | change, Coronavirus, Insight, Lifestyle, Mindful Communication, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, RESET, Resilience, Transformation
Do you know how long an emotion lives in your body? According to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a leading neuroscientist, it takes an emotion 90 seconds from the time it was triggered to subside. In reality, this is usually not how things play out. Emotions can be triggered... 
by Shalini Bahl, Ph.D. | Apr 20, 2020 | change, Coronavirus, Emotional Intelligence, Health, Insight, Lifestyle, Mindfulness
In the first three Friday Sessions, we covered various strategies to find inner calm and clarity during this unprecedented time. So far, we’ve learned how awareness of breath can help us manage stress, how mindful gratitude can bring us from a mindset of scarcity to... 
by Shalini Bahl, Ph.D. | Apr 13, 2020 | change, Coronavirus, Health, Lifestyle, Mindfulness, RESET
In the first two Friday sessions, we explored how the awareness of breath and gratitude practices allow us to develop inner calm and clarity. We also used these practices to help us move from a mindset of scarcity to that of growth. You can use these mindfulness... 
by Shalini Bahl, Ph.D. | Mar 15, 2020 | Coronavirus, Health, Lifestyle, Mindfulness, RESET, Self-Regulation, Three Mindfulness Trainings
Are you feeling fearful about the Coronavirus? The outbreak is now a global pandemic. More than a thousand people have been infected in the U.S. with 38 dead. At this point, testing capacity is woefully lacking and there’s no known cure for it. So, yeah, it’s Ok to...