by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 28, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Playfulness is good for you. So many sources have delivered this message to me over the years that I’ve lost count. Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way, mindfulness teachers ranging from the Dalai Lama to Andy Puddicomb, and, more recently, the TED Radio Hour, which...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 19, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Breast Cancer, Mindful Photography
This week’s post is a reprint of a piece I wrote last October, updated to reflect the means by which I plan to support METAvivor.org in 2017. Breast cancer hasn’t gone away, nor has the blind commercialism of Pink October. METAvivor.org continues to use...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 13, 2017 | Mindful Photography, Photography
How do you like my newest photography award winner, Hibiscus Abstract Sepia? When I was notified a couple of weeks ago that my entry had won the “Abstracts of Nature” category in the 2017 Annual Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Photography Competition, I thought...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 6, 2017 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Mindfulness, Motivation
Have you ever collaborated with an accountability buddy? I wrote about this in a 2015 series on rebooting healthy, soul-feeding habits in my life (see How an Accountability Buddy Can Turn Work into Play). I’ve been thinking about the immense power of...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 23, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness
“What are you supposed to do if you have an itch during meditation? Should you try to ignore it or is it OK to scratch it?” When this question came up during the post-meditation discussion earlier this week in our 30-Day Mindfulness Meditation Challenge, I...
