If you’ve visited your local chrome, mirror and fern workout gym lately no doubt you’ve seen hundreds of people popping on their headphones and listening to some kind of mind numbing music or watching TV while they jump on weight machines, treadmill, stair climber, free weights or elliptical trainer. And the venues usually have something [...]

Many aspects of American life are taken as is with little question. Speed. Productivity. Work. Time. Money. Success. There is a latent feeling that we have to be doing something, all the time. We can choose to live this way, certainly, but it’s important to realize that it is exactly that: one choice. There are [...]

Sometimes used as a tactic to show perspective, oftentimes used as an insult, the phrase “take a look inside yourself” is better served for the mind rather than with an actual mirror, but for someone searching for answers it is always a powerful solution. A relatively new idea, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), is exactly [...]