What is beauty? What are blessings? What is a good day? Watch this beautiful short film on Happiness Revealed.”Open your heart to all these blessing and let them flow through you so that everyone you meet today will be blessed by you …let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you.”

  Today I’m reading What Really Helps by Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D. It’s an approachable, well-written text on how to help others. Simple enough you might think. However, not so simple. She highlights our tendency to want either want to fix things when someone presents a painful or problematic situations or to avoid it altogether.…

I was recently interviewed by Ansley Roan for a piece she wrote on Gratitude for CNN.com, “In season of giving thanks, signs that gratitude is back.” She asked me the following questions regarding the increasing consciousness around gratitude. –Is this a trend? Are more people are becoming aware of and trying to practice gratitude? –If…

Hello Everyone. Faithful readers. I just noticed that my previous post on Teaching Doctors to be Mindful was the 300th post for Mindfulness Matters. Without readers there wouldn’t be much point to writing these entries. I thank you for your eyeballs, comments, and encouragement!                        …

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