This week’s 5 Minute Monday offers up another way to find a mindful moment. Time spent driving can offer up an opportunity to find a mindful moment to feel, observe, and notice yourself, the road, the cars, all of it.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday on mindful moments focuses on the particulars of being present and on the idea of eating mindfully—in the present and without distractions.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on ways to calm the vagus nerve. Running from brain to gut, the vagus nerve is one of the parts of the body that can retain stress from our daily lives.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on the power of choosing positive change. As we follow up from our series on joy, we take these moments of joy we’ve found and step forward. Choosing to see the good, choosing an action step that creates positive change for ourselves, no matter how small.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is the next in this series on joy. Working to notice the little things that bring a smile or a moment of peace to us is an important way to increase joy in our lives.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday carries on from last week’s focus on offering support to fresh air. A breath of fresh air can clear our minds, increase our oxygen, and allow us a moment to change our perspective and find joy.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is the next part in our series on joy. We’ve talked about the importance of smiling, now we are talking about how offering support to others can bring us joy.
Moving from last week’s 5 Minute Monday on dance, we focus a joyful clue: smiling. Pay attention to what makes you smile, pause a moment and notice.
This week's 5 Minute Monday celebrates blue skies (at least if you've been dealing with smoke like me) and joy and, as a part of that, the power of dance.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday #66 discusses the power of hope, to energize us, to empower us, to help us work towards our hopes, dreams, and goals even when the timing is unsure.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on the power of silence. Research has shown that even short moments of silence, like 2 minutes, can improve health and wellbeing.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is all about the power of solitude, not constant solitude or hermitage, but carving out a little time to clear your mind, to calm it, to find peace, and think.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on the grounding practice “5-4-3-2-1” as a way to calm our senses, to calm feelings of being overwhelmed, and to refocus ourselves into our calm centers.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is all about mantras, the science behind them, and a couple of ideas to get you started.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is about patience and perspective. The feeling of impatience reveals expectations that we might not even know that we have. From our perspective, something is not happening correctly or quickly enough. Noticing our perspective and our expectations when we feel impatience is a powerful way to lessen feelings of stress and tension.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday on softening the voice of our inner critic focuses on ways in which we can lessen our feelings of fear and anxiety. Softening our inner critic helps us to create flow, creativity, and more space to grow.
Sunshine is crucial to our physical health and our mental health, and this week is a simple encouragement to all of us to get a little sunshine every single day.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is about the power of self-forgiveness. We often offer compassion and forgiveness more readily to others than we do ourselves as if it is not important to also forgive ourselves. Self-forgiveness is actually a powerful antidote to our fears and anxieties.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday on kindness discusses the power of propagating kindness and positivity and the benefit it offers to us and to those to whom we offer kindness.
In this week’s 5 Minute Monday, we talk about restful breath, one of the easiest breathing techniques. Calming techniques don’t have to be multi-step or complicated. Sometimes, just exhaling fully is enough.
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