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Category: Monthly Musings

Mindfulness and Leadership Part 2

2/28/2017

Previously, I wrote about mindfulness and leadership through the lens of emotional intelligence (EQ), focusing on two aspects of EQ: self-awareness and self-management.  The other two aspects of EQ in…

Why not make “Mindful Awareness” a New Year’s Resolution?

1/30/2017

Mindfulness is creating awareness of the present moment without judgment.  Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is training in how to actually learn and incorporate this practice into our lives. It isn’t easy…

Mindfulness and Leadership

12/28/2016

Having recently gone through a very memorable election, it seems a good time to consider how practicing mindfulness might contribute to being a successful leader.  One of the principal ways…

Mindfulness and Well-Being

11/29/2016

Why cultivate a practice of mindfulness? What is the relationship between mindfulness and well-being? It has to do with how we pay attention…to how we are in any moment and…

Mindfulness Is Associated with Less Mental Distress and Greater Life Satisfaction among Informal Caregivers of Palliative Patients

10/31/2016

A group from Germany has studied the relationship between mindfulness and distress among caregivers of patients receiving palliative care.  They found that those who had greater mindfulness as measured by…

Being With Things as They Are

10/31/2016

We all know that we are mortal, and that we will not live forever.  However, when death is imminent for a loved one it still is not easy to accept. …

Mindfulness for Healthcare Providers

8/31/2016

Stress and burnout are currently very common among healthcare providers.  The American Medical Association conducted a survey of practicing physicians in 2014 and found that 54% met criteria for burnout,…

Assuming Positive Intent

7/28/2016

I was speaking with someone recently who had been having issues with relationships at work.  He had decided to work on improving his interactions with others, and reported that things…

April Monthly Musing

4/29/2016

We all have innumerable opportunities to practice mindfulness every day, and we can choose to bring present moment awareness to more of the things we do.  One of the opportunities many of…

Why MBSR and MBCT? A Scientific Perspective

3/29/2016

There has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness recently, and mindfulness principals are now being applied in medicine, law, business, education and leadership among other areas. Much of this…