by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 7, 2017 | Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation, Workshop
It never fails to astonish me how doing nothing for a few minutes each day (meditating) helps me do everything else better. In a 2015 interview with On Being’s Krista Tippet, social psychologist Ellen Langer, sometimes referred to as “the mother of mindfulness,”...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 30, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders
The sanctuary bells burst into song as I pulled into a parking space at the Light of Truth Universal Shrine (LOTUS) in Buckingham, Virginia. In a pretty decent rendition of Julie Andrews high tailing it down the mountain when she heard the abbey’s call to...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 9, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
Vacation and any other sort of travel can wreak havoc on your mindfulness practice. My personal routine on a normal day is to get up early, before anyone else in the house is close to waking. I meditate for twenty minutes. I make coffee and oatmeal. I savor my...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 19, 2016 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders
I’m not going to lie. When I wrote A Mindful Equation for Post-Election Healing the night before the presidential election, I thought I was writing it for Trump supporters. Surprise! Time to dig deep and move from theory to practice. This is what mindfulness in the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 7, 2016 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders
Hi everyone — It’s just a few minutes before midnight on Monday, November 7th. Tomorrow is election day. Rather than repeating myself, I’ll simply invite you to read my new piece on the Huffington Post blog: A Mindful Equation for Post-Election...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 1, 2016 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders
“An intelligence inside us knows that blame prevents us from living free.” ~ Tara Brach I spent the past two days at the 2016 Mindful Life Conference in Washington, D.C. After a particularly full week, with my first TV interview on Wednesday and inventory...
