Breath is an easy gift to give ourselves. Paying attention to our breath, breathing with intentions and mantras as we do, can help us calm our bodies and focus our minds and hearts.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on belly breath, a breathing technique that can bring us centeredness and congruence. Belly breath, and techniques like it, can help our body in all aspects of processing. It can help our nervous system process information, our minds, our emotions.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is back to basics. Mindful breath is an easy, important way to make space for mindfulness—literally calming our nervous systems and helping us create clarity.
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Transformation #5 is our final 5 Minute Monday on transformation, and it is the culmination of our Resilience and Transformation series. This week’s message is simple: Never stop. Commit to resilience, to transformation, to hope, to facing the challenge of the changing times, to allowing ourselves to find goodness, flexibility, newness no matter what.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is all about integration. We’re integrating the transformation that we’ve been working on by journaling. Journaling is a prime way to help us take in our treasure hunt of transformation.
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Transformation #3 is all about next steps, action steps. Our last two 5 Minute Mondays have focused on recognition and gratitude of our seeds of transformation. This week, we choose an action step that will help us grow our seeds of transformation, a small step to water, not flood, our sweet seeds.
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Transformation #2 focuses on the practice of gratitude as a method for recognizing the treasure hunt of transformation even in difficult times. Facing our sorrow with vulnerability and strength is not denial. Rather, they allow us to practice gratitude and recognize the gifts of transformation even as we experience change and difficulty during COVID-19.
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Calista’s 5 Minute Monday #48 begins our series about Transformation. Picking up where Resilience #6 left off, Transformation #1 discusses the treasure hunt of transformation. Creativity is an important element of this. It allows us to grow, to learn new things, to have new experiences even as we live through this season of COVID-19.
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This week marks the sixth and final 5 Minute Monday specifically about resilience with regard to the worldwide experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. #47 discusses possibility and the power of recognizing its presence.
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The fifth in our series on resilience, 5 Minute Monday #46 focuses on using self-expression to help organize and release our feelings as we work through our time living sheltered in place.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is the fourth in our resilience series. It focuses on generosity as a powerful antidote to feelings of fear, scarcity, and anxiety.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is the third in our Resilience series. This week we focus on the importance of framing how we consider the time we are spending shelter-in-place.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday continues our series on resilience. Resilience is the ability to adapt, and, in these times of social distancing, adapting how we connect with our friends and family is especially important.
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This week begins a series of 5 Minute Mondays focused on resilience. We are living in a time where resilience, and its main component, adaptation, are hugely important components of our psychological and emotional well-being.
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In this complex time, choosing to view the world through eyes of kindness and compassion can make a positive difference not only to our own well-being but to the world around us.
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Calista’s 5 Minute Monday #40 focuses on stepping away from anxiety, from fear, and stepping into ourselves and our bodies. Anxiety pulls us up and out of our bodies, and simple practices like visualizations and breath exercises can help us find our way back to being centered in our core.
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This 5 Minute Monday discusses the importance of journaling as a pathway to clarity and how it can help us find our way to ourselves.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is about the power of creating a personal ritual, and my suggestion for it—a cup of tea. Taking 5 minutes to have a cup of tea, to do nothing more than feel the steam, smell the leaves, and take a sip can actually calm the nervous system and clear the mind.
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#37 is all about the importance of beauty in our lives. Stopping to appreciate real beauty—in art, music, nature, and so much more—can nourish us, restore us, and remind us of our humanity.
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This week’s 5 Minute Mondays is about the power of laughter, real laughter, to reduce stress, clear our minds, and bring joy.
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