The embrace of a hug can bring a sense of warmth, closeness, and ease. Even increasing valuable hormones in our body. Connect with your felt senses and how to experience these senses through various opportunities all around you.

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Moving into relaxation, stillness, and inner quiet brings peace and balance to our whole system. Join me in a meditation to release tension, bring softness to your body, and enter into a state of calm.

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Lack of sleep and feeling tired are common threads many share. Let’s look further at how sleep deprivation affects our health, obstacles we might face, and tools for developing your sleep hygiene routine. Sleep is as important as air and food.

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We have been starting to pull together some of your wellness tools from your toolbox. As we’ve been increasing our awareness, it has opened up more of the connections between our storytelling, language we use, and the emotions that entangle. Even going on autopilot at times. Purpose practice is an intentional connection to our emotions with compassion, curiosity, and tools.

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As we’ve been working through areas related to acceptance and impermanence, an important aspect to be mindful of is our expectations. We hold expectations in several categories, creating high emotions and chaotic situations. Learn more about our expectations on self, others, and our environment and the impacts on has on our wellness. Put together your wellness tools to create a healthy and balanced way of being.

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Mindful presence involves fully connecting to the current experience you’re in. Connected to self, the environment, and others around you. Being all in. Being the observer, gaining understanding, and a deeper connection. By practicing mindful presence, it assists in alleviating stress, anxiety, depression, and frustration. It allows for improved physical health and connections with others. Learn about areas to consider embracing a mindful connection.

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Our lives are often jam-packed. Busy, buzzing, moving, shifting, and avoiding as our go-to’s of living, rarely stillness. We deprive our mind, body, and full selves the opportunity stillness provides. What makes us fear stillness? I’ll go over some common fears, the benefits of stillness, and some strategies to consider adding to your wellness toolbox.

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We can create obstacles, diversions, and sinkholes to block our path. These mental, emotional, and physical detours we create rob us of connecting with ourselves, our goals, and all we have the ability to create and experience. It can block our connection with higher consciousness and trust. Identifying how we get in our own way allows us to get rid of automatic cycles and imprinted patterns, creating space for a new highway. One You design.

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Here are some books you might find helpful. 

The Ego-Less Self: Achieving Peace & Tranquility Beyond All Understanding by Cardwell Nuckols ~ https://bookshop.org/a/87707/9780757315411

The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler ~ https://bookshop.org/a/87707/9781573227544

Leading with curiosity applies to our inner self, emotions, physical body, perceptions, and connections with others as a way of living. By leading with curiosity, it improves our self-esteem and self- concept and regulates and balances our emotions, allowing us to get to the middle of our emotions as we discussed in the emotional ladders episode. Leading with curiosity also improves our physical health and dissolves our attachment to assumptions, expectations, and judgments. This allows space for a connection within and with others full of genuine acceptance.

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I've been highlighting the numerous benefits of mindfulness for our emotional, mental, and physical health along with the many ways we can incorporate it into our way of living. Kevin Briggs joins me for a discussion about his research on Mindfulness, barriers of incorporating the full nature of the practice, and how to integrate culture, history, and experience.

You can reach Kevin Briggs at [email protected]

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If you’re interested in learning more about the women who were a part of the journal article in Yoga Journal, here are their websites. (May/June 2019 edition)

Rina Deshpande https://rinadeshpande.com/

Sangheeta Vallabhan http://sangeetavallabhan.com/

Hemalayaa Behl https://www.gaia.com/person/hemalayaa-behl

Rumya S. Putcha http://rumyaputcha.com/about/

Susanna Barkataki https://www.susannabarkataki.com/