A colleague recently sent me an article about thirteen specific benefits of daily meditation. These benefits range from concrete health outcomes like lowered inflammation, healthy blood pressure and reduced pain, along… Read More
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Category: Mindfulness
What’s All the Hype About Mindfulness?
Mindfulness has permeated mainstream culture, and some people say it’s reached oversaturation levels. Mindfulness studios have popped up in New York City, and major medical institutions around the country now teach mindfulness… Read More
Taming the Triggers
Over the past few years there has been a storm of media drama, especially in academia, about triggers and trigger warnings. If you look up “trigger warning” in any search… Read More
White Fire
“Eish shachor al gabei eish lavan.” The Torah is written “black fire on white fire.” (Talmud, Midrash Tanhuma, Genesis 1) This morning I made note of my breath swell of… Read More
Life Really IS a Balancing Act
Recently it seems the topic of “work-life balance” is being talked about everywhere. Last month’s article in The Atlantic by Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” has… Read More