by Shalini Bahl, Ph.D. | Nov 6, 2024 | change, compassion, Leadership, Mindful City, Mindful Communication, Mindfulness, Politics, Resilience, Self-Regulation, stress, Three Mindfulness Trainings, Transformation
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. – Gloria Steinem On this unusually warm November 6th morning, with temperatures reaching 79 degrees on the East Coast, I lace up my running shoes and head out to clear my head and make room in my heart... 
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. | May 6, 2020 | change, Coronavirus, Emotional Intelligence, Health, Mindful Communication, Mindfulness, RESET, Self-Regulation
I Feel, Therefore I Act As much as we like to think of ourselves as logical and calculated beings, our emotions can quietly rule over our judgment and decision-making. According to Dr. Antonio Damasio, a leading neuroscientist, our decisions are the products of... 
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... 
by Shalini Bahl, Ph.D. | Dec 13, 2016 | Business, Mindfulness, Self-Regulation
If we can deeply understand the power of mind, how we can both injure and benefit this world, we see that practice isn’t a luxury, but rather an imperative. It’s like food and water. It returns us to ourselves, to our sanity, to our true capacity. ~ Geoffrey Shugen... 
by Shalini Bahl, Ph.D. | Jul 27, 2015 | Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Self-Regulation
[minti_pullquote align=”left”]“For most of us most of the time, our emotional reactivity obscures our natural intelligence. But if we become motivated to start contemplating the approach of seeing pain and discomfort as opportunities for healing… our...