by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 16, 2018 | Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders
It’s February, the time of year when Hallmark and the rest of pop culture tell us we’re supposed to seek, find, and celebrate love (and buy lots of stuff in the process). I didn’t grow up as a lovey dovey person. In fact, I had issues with the L-word. When...
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...
