by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 29, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Greetings friends! I stepped off the grid to be present with my loved ones over the holidays. We took the week before Christmas to visit family and ski at Whistler, British Columbia, returning home on Christmas Eve. Traveling before Christmas was a departure from our...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 16, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness
I made the mistake this morning of looking at Facebook before I meditated. As with every “mistake,” a lesson awaited. I had decided to take a day off from my usual 20-minutes of meditating as soon as I get out of bed because we’re leaving in a few hours for vacation....
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 18, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
When I was growing up, my recollection is that Christmas decorations didn’t go up until Thanksgiving. That may or may not be true, but I know that over the course of the last three or four decades, I’ve been conditioned to believe that it’s “wrong” for holiday...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 2, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation, Workshop
What emotional response do you have when you hear the first Christmas song on the radio or find the first red and green or snowflake-patterned holiday decorations at the store? Does a delighted smile break out on your face? Or do your shoulders scrunch up to your ears...
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 | 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...
